Ruvo Center Power of Love Gala

Photo Illustration by Jeff Adamson

Vegas gala to celebrate Muhammad Ali's 70th birthday, benefit Ruvo Center

Feb 13, 2012 (2 a.m.)

The world’s eyes will be on Muhammad Ali this Saturday in Las Vegas, as they’ve been so many times in so many places over so many years. But another treasure will be spotlighted during this weekend’s gala to celebrate Ali’s 70th birthday, and it’s so meaningful that Ali and his family are using his starpower to help raise awareness of it.

Ali’s opponents reflect on his life, legacy

February 17, 2012

Ed Koch

Muhammad Ali fought 61 times as a professional between 1960 and 1981. Here, three of his opponents — George Foreman, George Chuvalo and Earnie Shavers — talk about their fights and what Ali means to them.
The first time I met Muhammad Ali

February 17, 2012

Bernie Yuman

I didn’t know that he was Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. All I knew was when he ran past me and looked out the corner of his eye, as only he could do, his charisma and personality swept over me.
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‘Power of Love Gala’ to feature A-listers aplenty

February 16, 2012 (2:00 a.m.)

By John Katsilometes

Ask Anna Robins about the size of the team that has been assembled to stage this year’s “Power of Love” gala, and she pauses. Then she chuckles. Then the number “380” is tossed out.
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Wanna win these? Ali’s gloves, dinner party by Wolfgang Puck up for auction

February 16, 2012 (2:00 a.m.)

By John Katsilometes

A total of 130 live and silent auction items and packages will be offered to the 1,800 guests expected to attend Saturday night’s Keep Memory Alive Power of Love Gala celebrating Muhammad Ali's 70th birthday. Here's a look at some of the more dazzling packages and items up for bid.
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Sig Rogich ‘enthralled’ by interactions with Muhammad Ali

February 16, 2012 (2:00 a.m.)

By John Katsilometes

He called himself The Greatest. But to Sig Rogich, Muhammad Ali was The Catalyst.
Ruvo Center taking strides in researching possible treatments for diseases

February 15, 2012

By Conor Shine

In just a few years, the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health has become one of the nation’s leading facilities for the research and treatment of neurodegenerative disorders, and the Las Vegas-based clinic is showing no signs of slowing down.
Fighters embrace Ruvo Center project that tackles head trauma

February 15, 2012

By Case Keefer

In the same city where some of the most significant bouts of the past 50 years have taken place, a new fight is beginning. The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health has launched a study aimed at reducing traumatic head injuries and brain diseases sometimes suffered by fighters.
Lou Ruvo Center’s world-class services are for locals, too

February 14, 2012

By Tovin Lapan

When the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health opened to patients in July 2009, one of its primary objectives was to provide a place for Las Vegas residents suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases to obtain treatment locally. Now in its third year of operation, the center has only expanded on that mission.
Volunteering at the Ruvo Center: How to lend a hand — and a heart

February 14, 2012

By Tovin Lapan

Within the architectural exclamation point of a building that is the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, there are world-renowned doctors, acclaimed researchers and expert therapists. But the distinguished research and treatment center in downtown Las Vegas would not run properly, nor would it be able to meet its own high standards for patient care, without its dedicated team of volunteers.
Lou Ruvo Center helps those afflicted by diseases of memory, mood and movement

February 13, 2012

By Richard N. Velotta

The illnesses treated at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health are described as diseases of memory, mood and movement.
Lou Ruvo Center focus of Larry King special on Alzheimer’s

May 8, 2011

By Jackie Valley

Larry King highlighted Las Vegas’ Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health during his first CNN special since retiring in December. "Unthinkable: The Alzheimer’s Epidemic” aired Saturday night.
S.I. swimsuit models swing by Caesars to promote magazine, Ali celebration

February 16, 2012

By Ric Anderson

Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Anne V has never attended a boxing match, but she and 16 of her fellow SI models can now honestly say they've spent time in the ring in the Fight Capital of the World.
The man Muhammad Ali calls the ‘world’s best’

February 17, 2012

By Ric Anderson

He was there for Muhammad Ali’s fights; when Ali attended the funeral of his trainer, Angelo Dundee; and when former President Bill Clinton spoke during the opening of the fighter’s cultural and educational center in Louisville, Ky., to name just a few of the big moments in Ali’s life.