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photo by mmajunkie.com: Jon Jones and manager Malki Kawa meet with the press over Jones’ positive test for performance enhancers on Thursday

On the Sports headlines podcast with Tony, the UFC’s Jon Jones who failed a drug test finding Jones positive for performance enhancers for a substance that Jones says he can’t even pronounce “Metabolite” which was found in his DNA. Jones was quite emotional while meeting with the press on Thursday and swore he didn’t take illegal substances as he spoke he was in tears over the whole situation. Jones manager Malki Kawa said that he’s 1000 percent positive that Jones didn’t take any banned substances and that the situation “would be resolved.”

On the NBA front former Miami Heat star Dwayne Wade co-hosted Live with Kelly Ripa on Thursday it was there that Wade talked about his signing a $46 million, two year deal with the Chicago Bulls. While the Bulls aren’t going anywhere this year this is a home coming for Wade and Wade had personality issues with Miami Heat team president Pat Riley as the two butted egos in Miami. Wade is happy for the move.

Tony Renteria does the Sports Headlines podcasts each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

By Jeremy Harness

file photo globe-mma.com: Boxing great Muhammad Ali

“The Greatest” was honored in a grand fashion Friday morning.

Thousands of people congregated to Louisville’s West End to pay their last respects to boxing legend Muhammad Ali, who died June 3 at the age of 74 from what was called “septic shock due to unspecified natural causes.”

Louisville residents, celebrities and dignitaries alike were on hand to celebrate the life of the man whom is regarded by many as the greatest fighter of all time, one who not only transcended the sport of boxing, but also that of the entire sports world as well as helping frame American culture as we know it today.

In his eulogy, former president Bill Clinton, for instance, recalled crying “like a baby” when watching Ali carry the Olympic torch at the start of the 1996 games in Atlanta.

Ali’s wife, Lonnie, recalled to the people of the story of a white police officer who helped 12-year-old Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, after the boy had his bike stolen. The officer then guided him into a boxing gym, and the rest was history.

Celebrities such as comedian Billy Crystal also came out to pay their last respects. Crystal was just getting started in his career in 1974 when he said he first met Ali. The two hit it off very well, well enough that he said that Ali began to call him his “little brother.”
Will Smith, who portrayed him in the movie “Ali,” served as a pallbearer along with former heavyweight boxing champions Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson.

“He was not just a Muslim, or a black man, or a Louisville kid,” senior adviser to the president Valerie Jarrett told ABC News. “He wasn’t even just the greatest of all time. He was Muhammad Ali. The whole is far greater than the sum of its parts.”

Ali’s body was carried in a cherry-red casket, and as the hearse that carried the casket drove to the site of the memorial service, onlookers chanted and threw flowers onto the vehicle.