For those who are tired of looking at Floyd Mayweather's mugshots, there may be something worth looking forward to in the sport of boxing.

Mark Wahlberg (pictured right) and Will Smith (pictured left) are being offered $1 million each to fight each other in a celebrity boxing match on February 26, 2011, in Las Vegas, according to RadarOnline.

National Football League owners voted unanimously in May 2008 to opt out of their labor contract with the players at the end of this season, two years before the current contract reached completion. The players, satisfied with the original agreement, were content to complete the contract.

Hence, we have a brewing war of words and conflicting information.

In an interview airing this weekend on Bloomberg Television's "Political Capital with Al Hunt," union chief DeMaurice Smith said if NFL owners lock out players in order to get concessions in a labor dispute, it would devastate local communities as the country currently struggles with unemployment hovering at 10%.

Forty-two years after Tommie Smith (pictured middle) protested racism, poverty and represented black pride with his Black Power salute at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games, he is selling his symbolic gold medal.

Smith, 66, has put his medal and cherry-red Puma running shoes up for auction at New York-based M.I.T. Memorabilia, with a starting bid of $250,000. The sale is scheduled to close Nov. 4th.

Boxing clubs in inner-cities have produced champions like Riddick Bowe of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, and Hasim Rahman of Baltimore. One boxing coach in Rochester, N.Y., though, is looking to produce more than just boxing champions. He uses the sport of boxing to build self-esteem for some of the hardest to reach young people, believing that "self-confident children will be successful."

Sports writers and radio hosts are calling Floyd "Money" Mayweather everything but chicken sh*t, claiming the fight of the century between him and Manny Paquiao is being stalled by Mayweather.

Miami Dolphins defensive end Phillip Merling (pictured), who has had a fairly uneventful showing in the pros, has been formally charged with felony battery against his pregnant girlfriend.

The integration of baseball with Jackie Robinson (pictured below) was bittersweet. While it gave Negro League players the chance to defect for bigger salaries and a bigger platform to showcase their skills and leveled the playing the field, it also led to black audiences losing interest in baseball.


And by then, many of the Negro League players were past their prime.

What's worse, many of these players died destitute and in obscurity, even though their skills rivaled and eclipsed the best white players in the country.

On Thursday, the Postal Service will be honoring the organizations with a pair of 44 cent stamps that will be dedicated in ceremonies at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Mo.