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Mike Tyson, who may have earned $140 million since he got out of prison two years ago, spent his 31st birthday begging. Two days after he sampled Evander Holyfield's ear, threw away their championship return bout and maybe also the rest of his career, Tyson was standing before a microphone pleading not to be barred from boxing. "I only ask that I not be penalized for life for this mistake," he said. He added that he had sought professional help "to find out why I did what...
...life," says commissioner Luther Mack. Enforcing civilized standards is never easy in a sport where acceptable behavior is to beat your opponent to a pulp, and where unacceptable behavior has never been bad for the gate. Holyfield himself once bit an opponent, "Jakey" Winters, during a Golden Gloves bout in 1980. Holyfield, who gnawed Winters' shoulder during a clinch, says he still had his mouth guard in at the time. Winters insists Holyfield spit it out first...
...instinct tells me there'll be continuing interest and curiosity about Tyson," Jay Larkin, a Showtime senior vice president whose instincts are hard to argue with, told USA Today. Nor will Holyfield rule out a return bout. "I wouldn't say never," he says...
...been truthful in his sworn accounts to Starr. But it was hard to square that rationale with some of the questions the troopers say Starr's agents were asking, such as whether one woman had borne Clinton's child--and whether the child resembled Clinton. In a bout of Clintonesque damage control, a source close to Starr told TIME that the interview notes "contain no reference" to such questions and that the agents "have no recollection" of asking them...
Going into this semifinal match, Harvard and Brown had split their previous two encounters during the season. In Harvard's second tiring five-game bout of the tournament, the Bears avenged their Harvard Invitational loss to the Crimson with a triumphant game record...