7:00 AM ET COLUMBUS, Ohio — Maurice Clarett is going to be late for the baby shower. He’s dressed and ready. His fiancée, Ashley, and the couple’s 13-year-old daughter, Jayden, are finishing hair and makeup. Family and friends soon will gather in Worthington, Ohio, just outside Columbus, to celebrate the couple’s baby boy due in about a month. Then Clarett gets a call on FaceTime. It’s Mike Tyson. The legendary boxer asks, or rather demands, to see him. Clarett tells Ashley he will go meet Tyson, then come to the shower afterward. “You have to understand,” Clarett says while driving to the meeting. “Tyson is my guy.” Two of Clarett’s fellow former Ohio State Buckeyes, Mike Doss and Jonathan Wells, met Tyson earlier that day during an autograph-signing event at a Columbus hotel. Doss, an All-American at Ohio State who played in the NFL and is married to Ashley’s sister,…
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