This dog wants to play. All it needs is a glove. Or two. A pitbull carries a player's glove during a game between Western Oregon and Simon Fraser University in Oregon, April 27, 2014. Western ...

John L. Sullivan, who in the 1880s was recognized as the first modern -- as in, glove-wearing -- heavyweight boxing champ, walked around with a pit bull. So did Jack Johnson, who in 1908 became ...