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AMERICAN AT LARGE:A FEW days after boxing’s latest version of The Odd Couple– promoter Bob Arum and his new partner, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones – had firmed up plans for this year’s mega fight, the March 13th Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey tussle at Cowboys Stadium, the travelling road show hit the Big Apple in style.

The boxer known as Pac-Man was escorted into Madison Square Garden’s Wa-Mu Theatre that day two weeks ago by no fewer than five Debbies (as in Debbie Does Dallas), otherwise known as the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. As we pointed out at the time, with the Cowboys having been eliminated from the NFL play-offs the previous weekend and Tiger Woods locked up in rehab, it wasn’t as if the cheerleaders had a lot to do that week.