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This life of Sugar Ray Robinson traces his rise at an exuberant moment in African-American culture.

Michael Jackson feared his father so much he would faint or vomit sometimes when his father entered the room -- even when the pop singer was an adult, according to a book written by a former Jackson confidant.

A merciless portrait of Alex Rodriguez as a needy, phony, preening, petulant, self-absorbed narcissist, from the reporter who broke the news of his 2003 steroid use.