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[naviga:h3]Job seekers irate over Vegas hoax[/naviga:h3]

LAS VEGAS — Police were called after hundreds of job seekers flooded a board meeting for the new Oakland Raiders stadium in Las Vegas and turned irate when they discovered they’d been had by a hoax.

A flyer promoting “pre-job recruitment sign-ups” attracted more than 700 people to a regularly scheduled meeting of the Las Vegas Stadium Authority board.

Tensions flared among some attendees after officials explained there were no jobs as of yet on the $1.9 billion project, which has many steps that must be completed before construction can begin.

Las Vegas police closed off access to the county building’s parking lots after the size of the crowd ballooned.

[naviga:h3]Upcoming fight pay-per-vulgarity?[/naviga:h3]

NEW YORK— Floyd Mayweather Jr. tossed $1 bills in Conor McGregor’s face. McGregor waved Jay Z’s new CD in Mayweather’s direction and quoted a Biggie Smalls lyric as some sort of warning shot.

The rest?

The fashionably late fighters treated fans that waited hours for the latest stop in a promotional tour to about 30 minutes of profanities, crude cracks about body parts, and, well, a steady stream of even more f-bombs.

If Mayweather and McGregor turned their latest showdown into a true PPV — pay-per-vulgarity — they’d collect a few million bucks before they even hit the ring for their Aug. 26 fight.

All this commotion — a DJ and rapper Doug E. Fresh warmed up the crowd of 13,165 — for a press conference.

“If it even is a press conference,” McGregor cracked. “It’s a bit of a roasting.”

[naviga:h3]DraftKings, FanDuel end proposed merger[/naviga:h3]

BOSTON — The two leading daily fantasy sports companies DraftKings and FanDuel scrapped their proposed merger about a month after federal regulators sued to block it.

The Federal Trade Commission — along with the attorneys general of California and the District of Columbia — had opposed the merger because, they said, it would create a company controlling more than 90 percent of the U.S. market for paid daily fantasy sports.

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