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Floyd Mayweather Entourage In SUV, Motorcycle Crash
Ray McDonald Charged With Domestic Violence, False Imprisonment
RAY MCDONALD
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Prosecutors in California have charged former San Francisco 49ers and Chicago Bears defen- sive tackle Ray McDonald with domestic violence and felony false imprisonment in connection with allegations he assaulted his ex-fiancée while she held their 2-month-old child.
McDonald also was charged with child endangerment and violating a court order, the Santa Clara County district at- torney's office said. If con- victed, he could be sentenced to up to three years in prison.
He was arraigned Thursday but did not enter a plea. He is due back in court in August.
Prosecutors said police re- sponded to a domestic distur- bance at a home around 4 a.m. May 25 and found McDonald had broken into the woman's bedroom and assaulted her while his driver tried to stop him and she tried to get away.
McDonald cornered the woman in a dining room and trapped her there before he chased her into a bathroom and repeatedly bumped her while trying to grab her cellphone, ac- cording to investigators. It con- tinued in the bedroom, where the woman said McDonald jabbed at her head with a finger and tried to pull her off the bed. Part of the incident was caught on cellphone video the woman took.
McDonald eventually left the scene but then returned as police were interviewing the woman, whom authorities haven't identified, before his driver sped away, prosecutors said.
McDonald's mother, LaB- rina McDonald, told KNTV in San Jose that it was a "sim- ple argument that got blown out of proportion" and that the charges were "political."
Serena Williams Approaches Grand Slam With 'Nothing To Lose'
SERENA WILLIANS
More drama for Floyd May- weathe ... when an SUV in his motorcade crashed into a guy on a motorcycle -- as the boxer and his crew were on their way home from a nightclub.
Floyd had just made an ap- pearance at One% nightclub in Kansas City ... when one of the 5 vehicles in Mayweather's TMT motorcade collided with the bike around 3 A.M.
It's unclear if Floyd was rid- ing in the SUV involved in the accident -- but in a video ob- tained, you can see May- weather at the crash scene while people attended to the downed biker.
Emergency personnel raced to help -- but the biker's condi- tion is unknown.
One witness at the scene said it appeared as if the motorcycle
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clipped the back end of the SUV -- and the guy was ejected from his bike.
Pictures showed Floyd in the passenger seat of an SUV earlier in the night -- so it's un- likely he was driving.
WIMBLEDON, England – When Serena Williams walked off Centre Court on Saturday afternoon after win- ning her sixth Wimbledon, the American could see the New York City skyline in the dis- tance – and just beyond it the U.S. Open.
Winner of a 21st career major, more notable Williams' third major in three played in 2015, meaning that when the world No. 1 touches down atFlushing Meadows in late August she'll try and do what no tennis player has done since 1988: win the Grand Slam.
"It would be amazing," she told a small room of reporters a few hours after her win over Garbiñe Muguruza. "I have nothing to lose. I just feel like I want to go in there and hope for the best."
Nothing to lose because –
from almost every angle of his- tory – Williams has already won. At 33, she completed a second "Serena Slam" on Sat- urday with her win at Wimble- don, having captured the U.S. Open late last summer. She now holds all four Grand Slam titles, something she last achieved in 2002-03.
"The amount of pressure that she will face (in New York) has just increased 100 fold," said friend Andy Roddick on BBC. "It's such a big deal now. The pressure is going to be im- mense."
It's hard to imagine Will- iams hasn't already experi- enced every level of pressure in her two-decade career, but the world No. 1 still hasn't achieved this one thing in ten- nis, capturing all four majors in one calendar year, the Grand Slam, last done by Steffi Graf in 1988.
Keith Thurman Beats
Luis Collazo; Calls
Out Floyd Mayweather
TAMPA- Keith Thurman, hailed by many as boxing's next big star, had to survive rocky moments in the fifth round but otherwise domi- nated Luis Collazo to retain his welterweight world title in an eighth-round, knockout vic- tory before a raucous home- town crowd Saturday night in the debut of Premier Boxing Champions on ESPN at the USF Sun Dome.
Collazo, who badly hurt Thurman with a body shot in the fifth round, suffered a ter- rible cut over his right eye in the seventh. He had blood pouring from the cut after the round and said he could not see out of the eye, so the fight was stopped one second into the eighth.
Thurman retained his 147- pound belt for the second time and then called out pound-for- pound king and recognized welterweight world champion Floyd Mayweather, who is looking for a Sept. 12 opponent for what he has repeatedly said will be the final fight of a bril- liant, so-far-unbeaten career.
"I'm a young, strong cham- pion, Floyd. Come get it," Thurman said. "I'm unde- feated like you, baby. Come take my 0 baby! Come take my 0! I'm ready. I'm ready."
Thurman was aggressive from the outset. But Thur- man began to land shots in the second round, nailing Collazo with a left and right hand in succession that got the crowd going. He punctuated the round with a right hand that
FSU RB Dalvin Cook Suspended, Accused Of Punching Woman
KEITH THURMAN
snapped Collazo's head back. The action was more even in the third round, but it was Col- lazo who emerged with a welt under his left eye. While Col- lazo's offense was virtually nonexistent, the quicker Thurman opened the fifth round with an onslaught of punches that seemed to have
Collazo in a little trouble. But late in the round, Col- lazo visibly hurt Thurman with a left hand to the body that had Thurman in trouble as he tried to stay away and
catch his wind.
"This performance man, we
trained hard for this camp," Thurman said. "Luis Col- lazo, I want to give it up to him, all respect. He's a great veteran. He came and he fought hard and caught me with a great body shot. But I took it and endured it like a great champion does and did- n't go down.
Florida State announced Friday that running back Dalvin Cook is suspended in- definitely after a woman ac- cused him of punching her in the face several times outside a Tallahassee, Fla., bar on June 23.
FSU revealed its decision Friday after the state attorney issued an arrest warrant for Cook on a misdemeanor bat- tery charge.
State attorney Willie Meggs interviewed the ac- cuser and Cook before issuing the charge, according toThe Associated Press. Meggs told ESPN he met with the accuser and a female witness on Fri- day. Meggs also told ESPN the accuser provided him with photographs of her injuries.
"I found the women to be very credible," Meggs said.
The accuser told ESPN that she suffered a split lip and a sore nose, and identified Cook in a photo lineup with Talla- hassee Police Department in- vestigators on July 1. She said she was approached outside thebarbyamanwhowasnot Cook, who asked for her phone number, which she re- fused to provide.
"I told him I had a boyfriend and wasn't interested," the
Florida State's Dalvin Cook rushed for 1,008 yards as a true freshman last season.
woman told ESPN. " ... They kept telling me they were foot- ball players. They kept telling me to Google them. They told me they were football players and they could buy me in two years."
The woman told ESPN the argument escalated and that Cook then punched her in the face several times.
According to the report, the woman is 21 years old, and the incident occurred June 23 out- side of Clyde's and Costello's bar in Tallahassee. That was only one day before former FSU quarterback De'Andre Johnson was involved in an incident at Yianni's bar in Tal- lahassee, when he allegedly punched a woman. Johnson was dismissed from the foot- ball team on Monday.
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