By Mardeio Cannon | OBSERVER SPORTS COLUMNIST

On a cool Friday morning around 11 a.m. over a week ago myself and the entire staff of The Sacramento OBSERVER experienced a red letter day in our lives. What is a red letter day you ask?

A red letter day is when you experience an event or experience that is forever etched in your mind and soul. In other words you will never forget the experience.

What happened? Don King one of the most recognizable persons in America entered the premises of The OBSERVER with his entourage right on schedule. King with his trademark hairstyle is the most successful boxing promoters in history.

It would take three pages to list all of his accomplishments from promoting Muhammad Ali to Mike Tyson to Michael Jackson to Evander Holyfield and many other boxers who owe their success to his salesmanship skills.

King then ventured into The OBSERVER conference room and proceeded to dominate the room with his eloquent use of the English language. When King ventured into the grounds of The Observer, we knew that we were in for a special moment. The way he greeted the Publisher Dr. William H. Lee and the especially the female staffers made everyone feel special. When King entered the conference room, Roy Jones Jr., the former Light-heavyweight and heavy-weight champion was already seated at the conference table.

A few minutes later, Felix “Tito” Trinidad, the former welter-weight and middleweight champion of the world entered the room with his entourage. King was in Sacramento to promote the first of his joint boxing cards with Galvin Maloof of Maloof Sports and Entertainment. The real reason for Jones and Trinidad were in town was the fact that King has coaxed these two champions to a fight in January 2008 that will really wake-up the interest in boxing. In between King’s usual rant about his background, the love of America, his lunch with President Bush that week, his meeting with the governor, his quoting bible scriptures and his goading of the two champions; he took some questions from Dr. Lee, Antonio Harvey (The OBSERVER reporter who brokered this meeting), and myself.

King was especially proud of providing 2,000 FREE tickets to the youth of Sacramento to come out to ARCO for a boxing clinic on Saturday morning. Even though King has made millions of dollars from his successful promoting efforts, he has given millions of dollars to charity causes with his Don King Foundation.

Because of other time commitments, King and his two champions had to leave not without everyone wanting to take pictures with these Giants of the Boxing world. One of the staffers remarked to me that they enjoyed every second of King and the two champions visit to The OBSERVER.

A day that no one will ever forget.