Brandon Jacobs, who was an amateur boxer as a youth in Louisiana and still spars regularly, has decided to put his money where his interests lie and become a boxing manager. "I've been wanting to get into the business after I was done playing," Jacobs said. "If I didn't fight, I wanted to get into the promotion business, but I hear from people that's a lot of headaches. So I wanted to do something that was more personable with the fighters." Jacobs is a long-time friend of Kendall Holt, the former IBF junior welterweight champion from Paterson, N.J. After his manager was arrested for allegedly dealing drugs, Holt was without a handler and asked Jacobs to fill in.