Toney Threatens to Kill Manager, Police Allege

James Toney grabbed a gun and threatened to kill his manager two days after he lost his super-middleweight title, his first loss as a professional boxer, police in West Bloomfield, Mich., said Monday.

Police staked out the suburban Detroit home of manager Jackie Kallen and the Ann Arbor home of Toney’s mother, Sherri, on Sunday, but the boxer never showed up, police said.

Police said Toney’s mother called Sunday night after Toney knocked over some furniture, said he was going to kill his manager and left with a gun. Police interviewed Toney on Monday at his Ann Arbor home. No formal complaint was filed.

Toney lost a unanimous decision Friday in Las Vegas to Roy Jones Jr., along with his IBF super-middleweight title. He said Monday he was recovering from the flu and that Kallen had pressured him to fight before he was ready.

Toney said he has fired Kallen.

Baseball

Major league baseball owners will meet on Dec. 5 in Chicago to vote, possibly, on unilateral implementation of their salary cap proposal. The meeting will be held two days before the deadline for clubs to offer arbitration to their own free agents, a process eliminated under the salary cap proposal.

“It is no surprise that they are going to meet or that they may implement,” union lawyer Eugene Orza said. “Their goal from the start has been to implement, and they have been telling us in meetings that they will be under pressure to do so in December.”

An arbitrator has awarded the former Salt Lake Trappers baseball team $1.75 million for being displaced by the Triple-A Salt Lake Buzz club in 1993. Arbitrator George Nicolau ordered Buzz owner Joe Buzas to also pay the Pioneer League $317,000.

Miscellany

Patricia Linden, 39, the former controller of a rare coin fund run by Bruce McNall, pleaded guilty to secretly shifting money from the account to help McNall pay other expenses. She will be sentenced June 8.

The Los Angeles Salsa of the American Professional Soccer League has agreed to postpone its series of games against Mexican First Division teams at the request of the Mexican Soccer Federation, which has banned its teams from playing in California to protest the passage of Proposition 187.

Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert are among a group of former women’s tennis stars who said they will join a new Virginia Slims Legends Tour.

Aniko Bird scored 28 points to lead Tungsram of Hungary to an 87-76 victory over UCLA in an exhibition women’s basketball game at Pauley Pavilion. Nikki Hilbert led UCLA with 20 points.

Melchor Castro of Mexico won a 10-round decision over Leon Salazar of Panama in their junior flyweight bout at the Forum. Earlier, Isagani Pumar of the Philippines stopped Ericel Nucamendi of Mexico in the ninth round of their scheduled 10-round featherweight bout.

Iowa State won the NCAA men’s cross-country title in Fayetteville, Ark. Martin Keino of Arizona won the individual title. Villanova won the women’s title. Karen Hecox of UCLA placed ninth.