Lewis-Morrison Bout Postponed Until March

The Lennox Lewis-Tommy Morrison heavyweight title fight expected for the fall has been put off until next March, John Brown, Morrison’s co-manager, said Monday.

“Tommy wants a couple more fights under his belt before fighting Lewis,” Brown said.

Brown said that Lewis, the World Boxing Council champion, probably will fight fellow Briton Frank Bruno in London in October.

Morrison, champion of the World Boxing Organization, will fight South African Francois Botha in October for a guaranteed $1.5 million, Brown said.

Jurisprudence

Former policewoman Lisa Phalen Sobolevsky can sue a former Syracuse University football player Tommy Kane, now with the Seattle Seahawks, over an alleged attack in 1988, according to a state appeals court in Rochester, N.Y.

Auto Racing

Robert Yates Racing, Davey Allison’s racing team, has not picked a driver for Sunday’s DieHard 500 Winston Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway, a team spokesman said.

Teams aren’t required to register at the Alabama track until Friday. Talladega, Allison’s home track, is where he suffered fatal injuries last week when the helicopter he was piloting crashed while trying to land.

The Williams racing team filed an appeal against a decision by auto racing’s governing body to ban active-suspension and traction-control devices in Formula One cars.

The appeal, announced by the International Automobile Sports Federation, means that the systems can be used by any car Sunday in the German Grand Prix while an appellate body considers last week’s ruling.

Horse Racing

A Mr. Prospector colt brought $1.05 million, the top price during the opening session of the Keeneland July Selected Yearling Sale.

John Gaines of Lexington made the purchase for an American-based partnership. The bay colt, out of Reminiscing, was consigned by Eaton-Williams as agent for Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Wolfson, Mrs. E.D. Jacobs and Manganaro Stables Ltd.

The Maktoum brothers of the United Arab Emirates did not attend the sale for the first time in 13 years, but still had an impact on the first session. Sheik Mohammed Maktoum’s Darley Stud Management had three purchases for $1.075 million, and Sheik Maktoum’s Gainsborough Farm spent $935,000 on two yearlings.

Last year the Maktoums, including Sheik Hamdan’s Shadwell Estate, bought 40 yearlings for $14.035 million.

Hockey

Al Sims, a finalist for the Mighty Ducks’ head coaching job, was hired as an assistant to Duck Coach Ron Wilson.

The Stanley Cup finalist Kings will open the season at home on Oct. 6 against the Vancouver Canucks. The first meeting between the Kings and Mighty Ducks won’t be until Dec. 2 at the Forum. The Kings will play their first game at Anaheim Arena on Dec. 26.

Names in the News

Jim Tarman, 65, will retire as athletic director at Penn State when a successor is hired. . . . Manute Bol, 7-foot-7 center for the Philadelphia 76ers, wasn’t injured in a hotel bar fight in Nairobi, Kenya, during which his cousin suffered a minor stab wound, according to his agent, Frank Catapano. . . . Louisville reserve center Brian Hopgood will transfer to Oklahoma City University. . . . Sergei Bubka, competing at the site of his 1992 Olympic flop, won the pole vault at an IAAF track meet in Barcelona despite failing in three attempts to clear 19 feet. . . . Hungarian-born Norbert Rozsa, who holds the world record in the 100-meter breaststroke, will be granted Australian residency today.