Pat Putnam

SUGAR RAY'S RETIREMENTSir:Many thanks for that great cover shot of Sugar Ray Leonard (Nov. 15), which, unfortunately, will probably be his last. What a fitting tribute to the best welterweight boxer of this...

Associate Writer Pat Putnam's piece on WBA junior welterweight champion Aaron Pryor (SI, Nov. 8) took him to McAfee, N.J., and the following week's cover story on Sugar Ray Leonard's retirement found him in...

VIEWS OF THE FIGHTSir:Your pictorial coverage of the showdown (On Top of the World, Sept. 28) was brilliant. As for Pat Putnam's article, it was most accurate. To think that Ray Leonard could have lost that fight,...

Motown Mauler Thomas Hearns, the undefeated young welterweight with the big punch, challenges WBA champion Jose (Pipino) Cuevas in what promises to be a slambang fight. Pat Putnam reports, from ringside at Detroit's...

A Cuban delegation of world-class track athletes is coming to the U.S. for the first time. Pat Putnam reports on the meet at UCLA in which Alberto Juantorena, Silvio Leonard and Alejandro Casañas will meet an array...