Tyson-Holyfield Bout Postponed

Another chapter in the history of Mike Tyson and postponed fights was written Tuesday when the former heavyweight champion said he would be unable to make his scheduled May 3 rematch with Evander Holyfield after opening a cut over his left eye for the fourth time while training.

The cut required 10-12 stitches last Wednesday and the fight apparently will be postponed to June 28, said Marc Ratner, head of the Nevada State Athletic Commission.

Tyson was cut in the same place by Holyfield in their first fight, and again in training March 17 and April 2.

It was the second time Tyson has postponed a fight with Holyfield. The first was in 1991, because of bruised ribs.

Tyson has also postponed fights with Bruce Seldon and Buster Mathis Jr. because of injuries.

Basketball

The University of New Orleans has hired former assistant Joey Stiebing as its coach.

Southland Report

USC Athletic Director Mike Garrett, after a meeting with members of the women’s basketball team, said no decision on Coach Fred Williams’ future with the program would be made until next week. Garrett and Lisa Love, an associate athletic director, said the meeting with returning players was part of a “normal process of evaluation.”

UC Irvine has been granted permission by USC to talk to Williams about a coaching vacancy there.

Returning USC safety starter Grant Pearsall suffered a knee ligament tear in a spring football drill Saturday, had surgery and may miss the 1997 season.

A bill that would have required state agencies to use state real estate whenever possible, drawn with an idea of making UCLA play football in the Coliseum instead of the Rose Bowl, was voted down in committee in Sacramento.

Len Stevens, former basketball coach at Nevada and Washington State, has joined the UC Irvine staff as an assistant.

Miscellany

U.S. Olympic Committee officials said they expected formal applications from Cincinnati, Houston, New York, Seattle and Washington as possible host cities for the 2008 Olympics.

Jill Dyke and Suzan Toft, playing against each other in match-play golf competition at Stoke-on-Trent, England, had holes-in-one within seconds of each other on the 116-yard fourth hole, a feat British bookmakers listed at a 100,000,000-1.

Tennis

Rain midway through the first set halted top-seeded Michael Chang’s anticipated advance to the second round of the Salem Open in Hong Kong. Chang led wild-card entrant Melvin Tong at the time, 3-0.

Names in the News

Bob Cain, a Detroit Tiger left-hander who pitched to 3-foot-7 Eddie Gaedel on Aug. 19, 1951, in a stunt dreamed up by St. Louis Browns’ owner Bill Veeck, died of cancer in Euclid, Ohio, at 72. . . . Quarterback Neil O’Donnell agreed to rework his $4.65-million contract for 1997 to give the New York Jets more room under the salary cap.