The Latest: Interviewer recalls TV verbal bouts with Ali (The Associated Press)

One of Britain’s top television interviewers, Michael Parkinson, had four verbal bouts opposite Ali – and described the fighter Saturday as the most memorable guest of his 40-year career. Parkinson told the BBC that Ali’s family recently asked him to provide audio recordings of all four interviews, so that Ali would listen to the decades-old discussions, which produced myriad clips highlighting his quick wit and indignation over racial discrimination. The head of the Nelson Mandela Foundation says the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former South African president called Muhammad Ali his boxing hero.