Announced that Skylar Diggins would be a host of an upcoming online talk show 40/40 Live with JAY’s 40/40 Club in Manhattan being the home of said show. The digital program will consist of Diggins, who is represented by Jay Z’s Roc Nation Sports, interviewing a variety of celebrity guests where they’ll provide fresh and unfiltered conversations involving sports, fame and music. The show will be produced by Time Inc. and JAY Z’s media company, Life + Times and be available to watch via Sports Illustrated’s website.
Chris Brown has been named a suspect in a basketball-related battery incident that went down during the early hours of Monday, May 4, according to Las Vegas police.
The R&B singer was identified as the man who allegedly assaulted another adult male during a basketball game at Palms Casino Resort, according to the Las Vegas police. The man was treated for non-life threatening injuries, which were sustained after a verbal spat lead to a physical fight.
According to the LVMPD, Brown wasn’t the only man who assaulted the victim. After the first hit, “the victim prepared to defend himself and was then hit by another male reportedly with Brown,” the Vegas police’s press release stated.
“Mr. Brown has been given the option of signing a citation for misdemeanor battery, or having the case submitted to the Clark County District Attorney’s Office for prosecution,” the press release reads. “As of this release, the LVMPD has not heard from Mr. Brown or his attorney indicating whether or not he would sign the citation.”
After spending years on probation for the 2009 assault of his then-girlfriend Rihanna, Brown was officially taken off probation in March of 2015.
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … the guy who accused Brown of punching him early Monday morning during a basketball game in Vegas called the cops on Tuesday and told them he wanted to drop the case. He did not explain why.
At that point it was a no-brainer … cops closed the case.
Nevada Athletic Commission chairman Francisco Aguilar said Monday that the state attorney general’s office will look at why Pacquiao checked “no” a day before the fight on a commission questionnaire asking whether he had a shoulder injury.
“We will gather all the facts and follow the circumstances,” Aguilar said. “At some point we will have some discussion. As a licensee of the commission you want to make sure fighters are giving you up-to-date information.”
The issue for Pacquiao and his advisor, Michael Koncz, is that by signing the document, they ”hereby swear under penalty of perjury, that the above information is true and correct to the best of my knowledge,” per the Daily Telegraph.
The basis for the lawsuit, then, will likely be that by failing to disclose his injury and lying on a legal document before fighting in an incredibly lucrative boxing match, Pacquiao committed a form of fraud. Whether that holds in court, however—and whether Pacquiao is ever tried for perjury or punished in anyway for this disclosure—remains to be seen.
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