As soon as referee Kenny Bayless stopped Manny Pacquiao from beating Miguel Cotto senseless boxing fans started calling for Floyd Mayweather Jr. to take on the current pound-for-pound champion. A Mayweather-Pacquiao fight will reportedly bring in $40-$50 million for each fighter at the same time giving fight fans the classic match-up they’ve wanted. A potential sticking point in all Mayweather-Pacquiao talk is Floyd’s relationship with Top Rank top man Bob Arum. Mayweather previously said he’d never fight Pacquiao if Arum was involved but that changed late Thursday when Floyd’s team approached Top Rank about the super fight. Read the full story

Jay-Z drops the third installment of his Blueprint series with the title implying a return to the perfect balancing of street and commercial appeal he displayed on The Blueprint. What Jigga delivers are some flashes of the old Jay and some of the Kingdom Come Jay that began the “Jay-Z fell off” movement.

It’s a 50-50 album. Half the tracks give us what we want, and the other half are doomed by poor beats, and/or questionable flow. The thing is, Jay-Z’s an older cat playing a young man’s game. In that respect he reps himself well as the Hip Hop version of The Rolling Stones. Jay will probably be releasing albums and touring until he’s 60.. In other words, another five years. Read the full story