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Ricky Williams Discusses Incident With Tyler Police
Floyd Mayweather
Taunts Conor McGregor
Ricky Williams was in- volved in an incident with police in Tyler, Texas last week while he was in town for the Earl Campbell Award ceremony.
The former Longhorns running back came to sup- port Campbell and this year’s award winner, D’Onta Foreman. Williams says he arrived in Tyler about four hours before the ceremony at a local coun- try club and decided to go for a walk outside his hotel. His presence near the backyard of a local resident led to a
checked Williams’ pockets. The former Heisman Trophy winner got a little upset about the situation, but tem- pers never really flared dur- ing the incident on either side. Williams, who is known for his love and sup- port of marijuana, says he was not smoking nor carry- ing any drugs.
Williams discussed the incident during an interview on KLBJ with “The Dudley and Bob with Matt Show.”
“I usually don’t consider where I am because I’m ‘Ricky Williams,” and I think that’s good enough,” Williams told the radio hosts. “And I started to get a little bit upset and they said, ‘Calm down,’ and I said, ‘Lis- ten, you don’t know what it’s like to be a black man, this is not the first time this has happened to me when cops have harassed me and I haven’t done anything.'”
Williams was eventually let go, but he was clearly upset about what happened.
Williams did make it to the Campbell Award cere- mony.
Over Net Worth
RICKY WILLIAMS
phone call to the police. As Williams returned to his hotel, policemen came to speak with him. They put his hands behind his back and
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
insists he wants to fight Conor McGregor, but the undefeated boxing champion isonlygoingtodoitifheis guaranteed a ton of money. Not only that, but Floyd wants to make significantly more for the fight than Mc- Gregor.
Mayweather said re- cently that he wants $100 million guaranteed and is willing to give McGregor $15 million.
UFC president Dana White later chimed in by saying he would guarantee both fighters $25 million and then talk about how to split the pay-per-view money. Floyd thinks that’s laugh- able, and he mocked Mc- Gregor on social media Thursday to illustrate his point.
There’s no way to tell how accurate those net worth fi- gures actually are, but we know one thing for certain — Mayweather is worth a heck of a lot more than Mc- Gregor.
Mayweather made $200
CONOR MCGREGOR AND FLOYD MAYWEATHER
million for a six-fight con- tract he had with Showtime, and that didn’t include pay- per-view money. He report- edly made over $200 million for his fight with Manny Pacquiao alone, so why would he accept $25 million?
From a financial stand- point, McGregor has way more incentive to make the fight happen than May- weather. There’s no way Floyd will agree to an even split, and who can blame him? McGregor can talk all the smack he wants and con- tinue to make outlandish claims like these, but he’d have to check his ego before actual negotiations could begin.
Court Throws Out Lawsuit Against Jay Z’s Roc Nation And Dez Bryant
This week is starting off great for mogul/entrepreneur Jay Z.
In addition to selling a por- tion of his streaming music service, Tidal, to Sprint for $200 million, Jay and Roc Nation just came out on top in a lawsuit over Dallas Cowboys wide receiver, Dez Bryant.
Official Brands filed the lawsuit against Roc Nation in April of 2015, claiming Jay and the Roc swiped the NFL star and interfered with a con- tract between Dez Bryant and Official Brands.
The lawsuit claimed Roc Nation sabotaged the deal, by blocking lucrative endorse- ment deals, in addition to con- vincing Dez Bryant to dump Official Brands in favor of Roc
Jay Z’s sports agency divi- sion of Roc Nation repre- sents Dallas Cowboys WR Dez Bryant.
Nation. Tuesday, Judge Boyle is-
sued her final verdict, which tossed the tortious interfer- ence claim.
It looks like some legal er- rors on the side of Official Brands lawyers tanked the case against Roc Nation.
Royals Pitcher, 25, Killed In Accident In Dominican Republic
Yordano Ventura was a star pitcher for the Kansas City Royals.
Yordano Ventura, the 25-year-old Kansas City Roy- als pitcher was killed in a one- car crash early Sunday in his native Dominican Republic.
Few details of the fatal crash have been released. Ventura was the lone person in his car when he crashed ac- cording to the police in the Dominican Republic.
It feels almost meaningless to discuss the money still re- maining on the contract, but it’s obviously not meaningless to his family, which would be
in line to receive the money— pending the results of a toxi- cology report.
Ventura is owed $19.85 million over the next three years, with a team option that carries an additional $1 mil- lion buyout.
In almost all circum- stances, baseball contracts are guaranteed, even in the case of the death of the player. One circumstance that would void Ventura’s contract: death in a drunk-driving incident.
A photo posted by the po- lice spokesman shows a truck on its side along a curved road.
Ventura’s $23 million deal includes a provision that will nullify payment for failure to perform due to injury or death resulting from driving a motorized vehicle while intox- icated, sources said.
If Ventura’s death is found to be an accident, his remaining money would go to his estate.
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