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SPORT P.G.A. champion John Daly hits it big. Mike Tyson hits the rough...
...Mike Tyson has inspired many epithets: the Mighty Joe Young of boxing, Don King's twisted Trilby, America's most volcanic son-in-law. For three years he was also known as the heavyweight champion of the world. But the organizer of the Miss Black America Pageant has topped all Tyson name callers. In a $21 million lawsuit alleging sexual assault of 11 of the 23 contestants at last month's competition, J. Morris Anderson charged the ex-champ with being "a serial buttocks fondler...
Innocent until proved guilty -- except, of course, on the front page -- Tyson has been staggered by the body punches of recent accusations stemming from his appearance at the Indianapolis pageant. An 18-year-old contestant says the fighter raped her in a hotel room. And Miss Black America of 1990, the first to make the buttock-fondling charge, has sued Tyson for $100 million. The allegations threaten to abort Tyson's November fight with current title holder Evander Holyfield -- the ex-champ's chance to recapture his old glory and the awe he once commanded in and outside the ring...
...charges simply amplify Tyson's police-blotter legend. His nontitle bouts with actress-wife Robin Givens and her mother were prime tabloid tattle. Other allegations of sexual extravagances, such as that he treated women like sparring partners, kept two unauthorized biographies selling briskly. Writer A.J. Liebling had it right 40 years ago when he observed in The Sweet Science, "Fighters of exemplary moral quality may be bores. And fighters who do a lot of beautiful things nobody else does may be children emotionally. The good boys get married. The bad ones get in jams." Tyson did both...
Right. I got it, Mark Tyson...