McCallum Loses Decision, Title to Tiozzo

Fabrice Tiozzo (31-1) of France landed a hard right and short left that sent Mike McCallum (48-3-1) to a standing-eight count in the second round and used that early advantage for a unanimous 12-round decision to take the World Boxing Council light-heavyweight title Friday in Lyon, France.

McCallum, 38, was making the second defense of the title he won last July by beating Jeff Harding.

On the same card, Frankie Randall (52-3-1) gained a split decision over Jose Barboza (21-9-3) of Venezuela in defending the World Boxing Assn. super-lightweight title, and Carl Daniels (35-1) won the WBA super-welterweight title with a decision over Julio Cesar Green (18-2) of the Dominican Republic.

Golf

Tom Wargo birdied four of his first five holes and tied a tournament record with a six-under-par 64, taking a two-shot lead over Lee Trevino and Dave Eichelberger in the first round of the Dallas Reunion Senior PGA Pro Am.

Dave Stockton and Australian Graham Marsh are one stroke behind.

JoAnne Carner, 56 and bidding to become the oldest player to win an LPGA or PGA event, birdied three consecutive holes for a second successive 68 and a one-stroke lead over Sherri Steinhauer after the second round of the Rochester International in New York.

Carner, who last won in 1985, is aiming for the record set by the PGA Tour’s Sam Snead, who won the 1965 Greater Greensboro Open when he was 52.

Tennis

Guy Forget withstood 17 aces and upset third-seeded Goran Ivanisevic, 6-3, 7-6 (7-3), to advance to a semifinal match against Boris Becker in the Queen’s Club tournament in London.

Becker handled Jason Stoltenberg, 6-4, 6-1.

Top-seeded Pete Sampras defeated Sandon Stolle, 6-2, 6-3, to advance to the other semifinal against Marc Goellner, who beat Derrick Rostagno, 7-5, 6-4.

Top-seeded Lori McNeil stayed on course for her third consecutive title by beating Laurence Courtois, 6-0, 6-3, in the quarterfinals of the DFS Classic in Birmingham, England.

McNeil will face Elna Reinach, and Zina Garrison-Jackson takes on Els Callens in the semifinals.

The four top-seeded players, Richard Krajicek, Jacco Eltingh, Paul Haarhuis and Richey Reneberg, lost quarterfinal matches in the Ordina Open in Rosmalen, Netherlands.

Football

Game organizers and the NCAA are working to keep the Freedom Bowl, shaky because of low ticket sales in recent years, alive in Anaheim.

Dave Cawood, liaison to the NCAA’s Special Events Committee, wouldn’t specify the areas Freedom Bowl organizers must resolve in order to be certified this year.

Offensive guard Carlton Haselrig, one of a handful of players in NFL history to make the Pro Bowl without playing college football, was released by the Pittsburgh Steelers. Haselrig went AWOL during training camp last August and was suspended.

Basketball

The Vancouver Grizzlies won a coin flip with the Toronto Raptors and will have the sixth selection in the June 28 NBA college draft. The Raptors will have the first pick in the expansion draft and seventh in the college draft.

Ted Fiore, 51, was fired as coach at St. Peter’s College three months after leading the Peacocks to a 19-11 record and their second NCAA tournament berth in five years, and four days after the college had sent him a new three-year contract. “Ted was let go because he was a very unhappy employee,” school spokesman Jim Morgan said.

Vernon Maxwell, who left the Houston Rockets after the first game of the playoffs, still got an undisclosed share of the championship winnings, as did former Rocket forward Otis Thorpe, who was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers on Feb. 14 for Clyde Drexler.

Hockey

Mike Shanahan was fired as chairman and chief executive officer of the St. Louis Blues and replaced by longtime colleague Jack Quinn. Shanahan said he was told of his ouster at a lunch meeting when he was shown an organizational chart without his name on it, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

Mario Lemieux, the four-time NHL scoring champion who sat out last season after five years of medical problems, will announce Tuesday whether he will retire or return to the Pittsburgh Penguins for the 1995-96 season.

Auto Racing

Stock car driver Jeff Gordon led a record-smashing qualifying session for Sunday’s Miller Genuine Draft 400 at Brooklyn, Mich., driving his Chevrolet Monte Carlo to a fast lap of 186.611 m.p.h. to win his seventh pole in 14 tries in this NASCAR Winston Cup season. The previous record, 181.082, was surpassed by 31 drivers on the newly paved track.

Bobby Grim, who began his racing career on the dirt tracks of Indiana before racing nine times in the Indianapolis 500, died at 69 in Indianapolis.

Names in the News

Bonnie Frankel, who tried out for Loyola Marymount’s women’s cross-country team at 46, has been named coach of the Loyola men’s and women’s teams at 50. . . . Peter Blake, who won the America’s Cup for New Zealand last month, is to be knighted for his services to yachting.