Has He Met His Match?

George Foreman doesn’t think Mike Tyson will have much trouble with Michael Spinks but says he’s overmatched against Robin Givens.

“In time, she’ll get him,” said Foreman of Tyson’s wife. “You can be dethroned in your own home. A woman can bring you to your knees. Tyson thinks he’s 5-foot-11, but she can make him 2-11.”

Tyson might disagree, but he can’t deny that Foreman speaks from experience. The former champion has been married five times.

Add Foreman: The names of his wives keep changing, but not those of his sons. He has four boys. All are named George.

More Foreman: Before making a comeback his weight had climbed to 312 pounds.

“I went to a basketball game one night and some people hollered at me,” he said. “I thought they knew me. Not so. They thought I was Refrigerator Perry.”

Add Fight: Says trainer Angelo Dundee, who is picking Tyson: “Michael Spinks ain’t got the wheels. He was never a mobile guy. He’s had surgery on one knee and the other one is bad.”

Trivia Time: What horse was favored in this year’s Kentucky Derby? (Answer below.)

Add Forgettable Quotes: Said Lou Piniella when asked if he would ever return as manager of the New York Yankees after being fired last October: “No, no, never again.”

Said Piniella when he was re-hired Thursday: “I expect to be here a good while.”

Oy vey.

Add Yankees: Says Dave Winfield of the surprising Detroit Tigers: “I liken them to a tortoise. You know, the tortoise and the hare. They’re steady, they plod along, but when all the dust clears, you look up and say, ‘Darn, what are they doing here?’ ”

From Deborah McHaffie, one of the first-round leaders in the Lady Keystone Open, on how her mother supported her even though she didn’t understand the game: “I’d call home and say I shot a 72. Mom would say, ‘I can never remember. Is a high score or low score better?’ ”

Stop The Presses: Stan Isle of the Sporting News said that after extensive research, the Baseball Encyclopedia discovered what it had always suspected, that Lou Proctor never played in the big leagues. He had been listed as a member of the St. Louis Browns and was credited with one at-bat, against Cleveland in 1912.

Isle: “It was established that Proctor was a Western Union telegraph operator who, as a prank, inserted himself in the official box score filed that day from Cleveland.”

From Cleveland Indians batting coach Charlie Manuel, passing along a tip he got from Harmon Killebrew: “Harmon told me never to chew gum at the plate. He said it makes your eyeballs bounce up and down.”

Hall of Fame golfer Ben Hogan, 76, said he’s still swinging even though he can’t go 18 holes after a recent bout with pneumonia.

“On good days I go out and hit some balls,” he said. “I don’t have a caddy--I’m the caddy. I hit them, go pick them up, bring them back, then hit them again just for exercise. Then about the third time I start hitting them, they start hitting me.”

Trivia Answer: Private Terms.

Quotebook

Mike LaValliere of the Pittsburgh Pirates, on the change in his batting style: “I’ve gone from a power hitter with no power to a spray hitter with no power.”