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Sports Execs, Celebs Flock To Vegas For Saturday's Megafight

Sports execs and celebrities were out in full force at last night's Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao bout. Attendees included CBS President & CEO Les Moonves, who was seated next to Patriots Owner Robert Kraft. Also on hand were Yahoo Chair & CEO Terry Semel, Turner Broadcasting President David Levy, Universal Filmed Entertainment Chair Jeff Shell, CBS President of Television Networks Distribution Ray Hopkins, Showtime Chair & CEO Matt Blank and Fox Sports Head of Business Operations David Nathanson. Celebs in the arena included Clint Eastwood, Robert De Niro, Jay Z, Beyonce, Sting, Tom Brady, Magic Johnson, Michael Strahan, Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf (THE DAILY).

Private jet traffic was "reaching record volume" at Las Vegas' McCarran Int'l Airport ahead of last night's fight, "so much that incoming passengers were being directed to Henderson and North Las Vegas to land their planes." McCarran staff "used social media to encourage private planes to choose a destination other than McCarran to land" (LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, 5/2). L.A.-based KTTV-Fox sports anchor Liz Habib tweeted a photo of private jets parked wing-to-wing on McCarran's tarmac yesterday:


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