Mayweather/Pacquiao Deadline Passes, Mayweather/Pacquiao
Deadline Doesn't Really Pass  As far as media conference calls
go, the 3 a.m. ones are the best.  Take today's, when promoter
Bob Arum posited about why Floyd Mayweather let the deadline
pass on committing to a fight with Filipino stallion, Manny
Pacquiao, despite his noted wad-waving fetish. Thankfully, the
nation's sports network tuned in to hear the Gibsonian shades of
Arum's thoughts:  "One of the reasons could be the uncertainly
regarding [uncle and trainer] Roger Mayweather. Roger Mayweather
is scheduled before a court in Nevada regarding criminal
charges. I know how Manny would feel if he had to go into a
fight like this without the services of Freddie Roach."  Ah yes,
the old "My trainer is facing a decade behind bars for beating a
female boxer he once trained" angle. Who among us hasn't tried
that one, especially when we're called out as possible scaredy
cats?  Summary: Arum was all like, nah, my deadline wasn't
actually a drop-dead one. Should