NBC avoided a first-round knockout Monday with its unscripted foray into the boxing ring, but “The Contender” will need to pack more of a ratings punch if it’s going to come close to justifying its ...

Tragic result in yesterday’s roughly run fourth race. In full field of 2-year-old maidens going 5 ½ furlongs, first-time starter Chief Two Crowns, Smoke Glacken colt ridden by Jerry Bailey for Kiaran ...

‘The Contender” didn’t score a knockout Monday night, but the much-hyped NBC reality series isn’t on the ropes, either. The show, which whittles a field of 16 boxers down to two – who will fight for ...

"The Contender" airs tonight at 8 on NBC (KHQ-6 in Spokane). It’s impossible to watch tonight’s episode of “The Contender” without wondering what’s going on inside the head of boxer Najai Turpin, who ...

Najai Turpin, a 23-year-old middleweight boxer from Philadelphia and a contestant on NBC’s upcoming reality series “The Contender,” has committed suicide, Philadelphia police said Tuesday. Turpin died ...

After several delays and a posttaping suicide by one of the contestants, Mark Burnett’s boxing reality series “The Contender” shows up tonight on NBC – and it’s a knockout. The first battle for “The ...

A reality television series that follows a group of boxers as they compete with one another in an elimination-style competition, while their lives and relationships with each other and their families ...