article_snippet.sent: There's a great literature on boxing, with contributions from writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer and Joyce Carol Oates.
article_snippet.sent: For contributions from writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer and Joyce Carol Oates, boxing isn't really a sport.
article_snippet.sent: You can't play boxing like you can play tennis.
article_snippet.sent: contributions from writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer and Joyce Carol Oates compared boxing to a rite, or a religion, or above all to theater, complete with spotlit performers improvising on an elevated stage.