Byline: Tim Layden
There is a theme the late Jimmy Jacobs used to cherish. It surfaced often the last two years of his life when he was regaling the media - in large numbers or small - on the development of Mike Tyson, the heavyweight champion he managed.
Jacobs, in that chummy-condescending manner that was his style, would explain that Tyson had grown immeasurably from the 13-year-old thug Cus D'Amato rescued from the ghetto. He is a grown man, now, Jacobs would say.
"He can eat in the finest restaurants" would be Jacobs' coup de grace.
Lest we confine this tact to Jacobs, it should be noted his co-manager (and survivor), Bill Cayton, and …
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