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Oklahoma standout and Heisman finalist Baker Mayfield was arrested after allegedly yelling profanities, "caused a scene" and running from cops after an altercation.

According to the police report, Mayfield was in Arkansas early Saturday when the incident happened. An officer was waved down to take an assault and battery report and asked Mayfield -- who had allegedly been trying to break up the altercation -- to stay so he could give a statement. Reports say that's when Mayfield went nuts, cussing and making a scene.

The report says Mayfield had slurred speech, trouble walking and was covered in food. Mayfield allegedly sprinted away from the officer and once tackled, refused to cooperate.

The QB and Heisman hopeful was arrested for public intoxication, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and fleeing.

A statement from the school says, "We are aware of the matter and are learning the details."

Dana White has an update on the status of the Conor McGregor/Floyd Mayweather megafight ... "WE ARE NOWHERE."

TMZ Sports saw Dana out in L.A. Friday afternoon ... and asked if there has been any progress made in the negotiation.

FYI -- Dana, Floyd, and Conor are all in Los Angeles.

The answer, no.

In addition to telling us who Conor definitely will not fight next ... the UFC honcho also breaks down with who and when Conor will next step into the Octagon.

Wrestling legend Kurt Angle says America's in great hands now that Linda McMahon has officially been confirmed as part of Donald Trump's cabinet ... 'cause she's a "genius."

The WWE Hall of Fame inductee says his former boss is the perfect person to head the Small Business Administration ... and has proven herself by turning the WWE into a billion-dollar business.

"If you doubt Linda McMahon, you'd have to be literally crazy."

Linda's entire family -- including Vince McMahon, Stephanie McMahon, Shane McMahon, Triple H -- joined her at the White House last week to make it official.

UFC badass Valentina Shevchenko says Amanda Nunes is straight-up SCARED to fight her -- and she's already thinking up excuses to avoid meeting her in the Octagon.

Shevchenko -- who just beat up Julianna Pena last month -- says her sights are set on a superfight with the reigning UFC women's bantamweight champ ... if Nunes doesn't chicken out.

"[Nunes] is looking for any kind of reason to avoid the fight because she knows I'm dangerous," Shevchenko tells TMZ Sports.

In fact, Valentina says she already knows the excuses Amanda will try and use.

For the record, Shevchenko and Nunes have fought once before -- Nunes won that fight, but it was close.

Ex-porn star turned sports blogger Mia Khalifa says everyone piling on Jameis Winston's comments needs to CALM DOWN ... saying the dude isn't sexist, he's just not great with words.

Like fast cars, cold booze, and topless chicks? Book a ticket to Daytona, ASAP.

UFC star and NASCAR super fan Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone joined the guys on the "TMZ Sports" TV show (tonight on FS1) to discuss Sunday's Daytona 500 -- racing's biggest event.

FYI -- Cowboy is tight with Kevin Harvick (who TMZ Sports also talked to earlier), the winner of the '07 running of the 500.

Cerronne -- who's leaving a Cabo beach and flying to Florida tomorrow to make the race -- breaks down all the away from the track action ... and it sounds AWESOME.

Kevin Durant dove headfirst into the Shaquille O'Neal vs. JaVale McGee beef ... and Shaq ain't havin' it.

The Warriors superstar backed JaVale (his teammate) and took shots at Shaq ... including telling reporters the 4-time NBA champ was acting "childish" and unnecessarily ruining McGee's career.

Now the Big Aristotle has clapped back at K.D. ... saying "mind yo business this ain't for you."

"I understand u sticking up for your teammate that's cool but your boy @JaValeMcGee34 is still a bum, he started it I'm a finish it."

Shaq was double-teamed a lot during his NBA career ... didn't stop him then, won't stop him now.

CBS Honcho Les Moonves is coming to the rescue of all NFL fans sick of the games taking longer than a presidential term to finish ... promising the games WILL be shorter and telling us how.

NFL ratings took a dip last season ... with some fans complaining the length of the games is a factor in why they're changing the station.

CBS has been a part of discussions with the league about how to speed things up, and when we got Les -- the president of the network -- out at Craig's in L.A., he told us how they're gonna do it.

Rory McIlroy is firing back at people criticizing him for playing a round of golf with President Donald Trump ... saying it was out of respect for his title, NOT his political values.

The Northern Irish golf star released a statement Friday afternoon ... claiming he's been called a "bigot" and "fascist" for golfing with POTUS last week.

"Whether you respect the person who holds that position or not, you respect the office that he holds," McIlroy says.

"This wasn't an endorsement nor a political statement of any kind. It was, quite simply, a round of golf. Golf was our common ground, nothing else."

"I've travelled all over the world and have been fortunate enough to befriend people from many different countries, beliefs and cultures."

"To be called a fascist and a bigot by some people because I spent time in someone's company is just ridiculous."

Muhammad Ali Jr. was detained for 2 hours at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport ... and he's ready to sue because he thinks it's because he's Muslim.

Ali Jr.'s spokesman, Chris Mancini, tells TMZ ... his client was returning from Jamaica with his mother, Khalilah Ali -- Ali's first wife -- on February 7 when immigration officers stopped them. She got through, but he was taken to a small room for 2 hours and questioned.

Mancini says Ali's 44-year-old son was asked twice if he's Muslim, and also where he got his name. He was traveling on a U.S. Passport.

Ali Jr. is looking into suing the U.S. Treasury and Homeland Security over the incident. Mancini believes it hints at a larger issue of profiling and discrimination. He's interested in filing the lawsuit as a class action.

We now know why Jose Fernandez's marital status was listed as divorced in his death certificate -- he wasn't even old enough to drink when he got married back in 2012.

Adrien Broner is high ... off life, telling TMZ Sports he's a responsible partier now ... "I don't drink no more."

We talked to Broner on his way out of Hollywood hot spot Le Jardin ... and as AB says, "y'all usually used to me coming out the club stumbling, but I don't drink no more. I'm sober. I'm partying sober."

It's good to see ... Broner's had his share of alcohol related drama in the past, including showing up to court drunk last year and a DUI in 2015.

But things seem to be lookin' up for the former boxing champ ... he won a fight last weekend, and he's sober.

Antonio Brown is in the cockpit of a jet ... thousands of feet in the air ... flying?!

AB put the video up on Instagram with the caption ... "Honor to fly my first plane."

A couple of things are unclear ... when the video was taken (wouldn't put it past AB to post from the cockpit, right Mike Tomlin?) and if the plane was on auto pilot or being manually flown.

Jose Fernandez was divorced at one point in his life, but it's unclear to whom he was married ... according to his death certificate.

Floyd Mayweather wanted one gift for his 40th birthday in L.A. Thursday night ... not to have to talk about Conor McGregor... the question is, did he get it?

TMZ Sports got Mayweather leaving Roku in Hollywood, the first stop on his weekend-long massive 40th birthday blowout celebration.

Floyd talked to our cameras about the chinchilla floors in his whip, the RIDICULOUS watch on his wrist, even about his nephew, who he says is gonna run all his companies.

What he wouldn't talk about? Conor, saying he wanted to take his bday off from all the madness.

Happy birthday, champ (please, please get the fight made).

Charles Oakley might not want to return to MSG after his beef with James Dolan, but that won't keep him from watching his Knicks ... sitting courtside as New York visited the Cavs Thursday night.

Oak -- a Cleveland native -- was invited to sit next to Dan Gilbert to have an up-close look at LeBron James and the defending world champs beat up on the struggling Knicks.

Oakley was temporarily banned from the Garden after getting ejected and arrested at the February 8 Knicks game. Dolan later lifted the ban, but Oak says he's not ready to return to the arena.

The Land has continued to show support for the former NBAer ... from making t-shirts to LBJ telling reporters, "Oakley for president."