Word: tysons
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RELEASED. MIKE TYSON, 28, once and possibly future world heavyweight champion; from the Indiana Youth Center after serving three years for the rape of a beauty pageant contestant; in Plainfield, Indiana. Tyson leaves prison trimmed down to his fighting weight...
...former world heavyweight champion boxer Mike Tysonheld a 76-second press conference, telling reporters that he will return to the ring, retain the services of controversial promoter Don King and fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in a series of bouts to be televised on Showtime. But Tyson, who just completed three years behind bars for rape, did not name potential opponents or say when he will fight. "I will continue my journey to making myself a better person so I can help others," said the converted Muslim, who took no questions, and ended his press conference...
Sometimes it seems as if all the great sports heroes are dead or deadbeats or accused of killing somebody. Are Pete Rose, Mike Tyson or O.J. Simpson role models? Only if the role is on a TV mini-series. The list of troubled sports stars goes on and on. Tennis prodigy Jennifer Capriati's substance abuse. Incorrigible rebounder Dennis Rodman's hairstyling and discipline problems. And, of course, Tonya Harding. It all makes you wonder if there is any hope for sports heroism...
...some time it has been open season on African-American males, and it runs the gamut from the regular citizen to the celebrity,'' Cochran says. ``Whether it's Mike Tyson or Michael Jordan, there is a tendency to want to bring down people who have done well, and in representing these people there is an extra burden. So when you drive down the street and people say, `Johnnie, please save Michael,' `Please save O.J.,' there is a sense that if it can happen to Michael Jackson or O.J., it can happen...
Harvard's defense: raising their physical play to a level not seen since Tyson-Spinks. Peter McLaughlin let his pads do the talking with two French-speaking forwards whom he couldn't understand anyway...