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Strapping on boxing gloves and climbing into the ring wasn’t exactly how Karen Ryan envisioned her fight against Parkinson’s disease playing out. Yet that’s exactly what the 75-year-old grandmother ...

A 69-year-old woman on the speed bag and a man who needed a wheelchair less than a year ago repeatedly hitting the heavy bag — this isn’t your ordinary boxing training. Punching steadies tremors and ...

A heavy bag swings, gloves snap against leather, and the rhythm builds, three minutes on, one minute off. After six weeks of this pattern, something amazing changes inside the body. There is a drastic ...

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School District 61 superintendent Deb Whitten, as an Olympian, knows the value of sport on many different levels. The school district is part of a pilot project involving ­boxing and recent-immigrant ...