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Floyd Mayweather, Sr. Eager To Get Son Back In
Winston Impresses At Combine
Jameis Winston threw at the NFL scouting combine Saturday.
Gym, Stresses Body Work Vs. Manny Pacquiao
Floyd Mayweather, Sr. will spew 10 weeks of verbal bravado about his son's May 2 showdown with Manny Pacquiao, but the trainer knows it is the fight of all their lives.
Mayweather-Pac- quiao, after five years of balky talks, finally is sche- duled to happen this spring at MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
"I don't think the fight has lost nothing," May- weather, Sr. said Satur- day. "I think the fight will be as big as it ever was going to be, because you know what? If people anywhere are talk- ing about anything on the planet, it's the fight. That's
Floyd Mayweather, Sr. expects his son to knock Manny Pacquiao out.
Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota, who each promised to do the full work- out at this year's NFL scouting combine, kept their word Sat- urday as both quarterbacks went through the paces at Lucas Oil Stadium.
In what will be a constant exercise in comparison shop- ping until the NFL draft April 30, the best quarterback prospects in this year's class proved they were well pre- pared for the big stage.
But both Winston and Mariota each showed an easy throwing motion and deep-ball accuracy, and com- peted well in the drills.
Winston's work was given particular attention since concerns arose over some weakness in his throw- ing shoulder during the exten- sive medical exam players receive at the combine. In ad- dition to the usual assessment by every team's medical staff that all players at the combine receive, Winston was also sent for an MRI on his shoul- der.
"I had an MRI, just like everyone else," the former Florida State star said. "I've been playing football, since I was 4 years old, and my shoulder has been fine."
Jameis Winston Helps Elderly Man In Wheelchair At Airport
While waiting for my flight home from Indianapolis I saw Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston walk by.
I wanted to ask him a question, but before I started, Winston noticed an elderly man pushing his own wheel- chair.
"Where do you need to go?" Winston asked.
"Baggage," the man said.
"We'll get you there," Winston said.
So Winston pushed the wheelchair until an airport worker took over.
Winston looked sharp in drills on the combine on Sat- urday. What he did at the air- port later was more impressive.
what they're talking about. Everybody is talking about
it.
Mayweather-Pac- quiao widely is projected to
be the richest fight in his- tory, and projects as one of the rarest of generation- defining boxing events, along with the likes of Sugar Ray Leonard- Marvelous Marvin Ha- gler in 1987, Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier I in 1971, and the most historically significant boxing event ever, Joe Louis-Max Schmeling II in 1938.
The welterweight unifi- cation bout was announced Friday.
Details have not been an- nounced, but pay-per-view is expected to cost $100 in- cluding high-definition tack- ons, and ringside tickets are expected to run around $5,000 -- if you have the contacts to get any before the set-asides and resell market drive prices higher.
Mayweather, Sr. of- fered the predictable predic- tion that his son will knock out Pacquiao, though nei- ther fighter has scored an unsullied knockout in more than five years.
He did offer some hints as to the strategy against the speedy, heavy-handed Pac- quiao.
"If you've ever seen Pac- quiao fight, against every- body, you never see nobody going to his body -- you never see nobody going to his body," he said. "So my thing would be is to tell Floyd, hit him with the straight right hand and left hook, and then go back to the body.
"A southpaw is definitely geared to be hit with right hands. I'm going to say that, along with the body work, it's going to be a good right hand and a left hook that's going to put him down."
Pound-for-pound king Mayweather (47-0, 26 KOs) risks his pristine legacy against Pacquiao (57-5-2, 38 KOs) -- but if he hadn't, it wouldn't have been pristine.
Mayweather, Sr. said the fight will be equivalent to "just a good fighter spar- ring in the gym, that's all."
Michael Jordan Is So Fed Up At
His Country Club That He May
Build His Own Golf Course
Even one of the most ex- clusive clubs in Florida might be too overcrowded for Michael Jordan, who is so sick of slow play that he may just build his own golf course.
Michael Jordan, fed up with the pace of play at the Bear's Club near his South Florida home, may build his own private course with a small membership down the road.
It's common knowledge that Jordan is an obsessive golfer, playing almost every day and always for money. The Bear's Club is where Jor- dan plays the most, and usu- ally with other celebrities and PGA Tour pros, like Keegan Bradley. But when he does play, he's not exactly deliber- ate over every shot -- he wants to zoom through the course and expects folks to let him play through. And ac- cording to sources, that ex- pectation is not always being
MICHAEL JORDAN ... on the golf course
met.
"Michael likes to play
fast and he can't stand it when people won't let him through," said a golf-industry insider who knows Jordan and who has spoken with sev- eral Bear's Club's members.
The same source says that Jordan has secured an op- tion on a plot of land in nearby Hobe Sound, with ideas on building his own pri- vate course with an extremely limited and exclusive mem- bership, approved specifically by MJ.
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