A Star Is Moved: Now You Can See Tyson the Terrible

Mike Tyson’s impulsive biting of Evander Holyfield’s ears Saturday night has prompted a major shift at the Hollywood Wax Museum. Tyson’s wax statue was moved Thursday from the Sports Hall of Fame to the Chamber of Horrors.

Museum officials said it was a gnawing decision.

But now, instead of sharing space with sports legends such as Michael Jordan and Larry Bird, Tyson stands alongside Hannibal “the Cannibal” Lecter, the people eater played by Anthony Hopkins in “Silence of the Lambs.”

Trivia time: Who played on 17 winning All-Star baseball teams?

Right on: Seen at San Diego’s Mission Bay, during snowboarding competition in the X Games, a sign that read:

“Hurry, It’s Melting!”

Happy alum: Seattle Seahawk Coach Dennis Erickson has donated $100,000 toward the renovation of the football stadium at Montana State, where he was once a quarterback and assistant coach.

“If it wasn’t for Montana State, obviously, I wouldn’t have had the success that I’ve had,” Erickson said.

Where’s the Windex? Roy “Buckshot” Jones won the NASCAR Busch Grand National 250 last year at the Milwaukee Mile, but he can’t recall getting the checkered flag.

“I thought we still had one lap to go because we didn’t clean the windshield on the last pit stop, so I didn’t even know I had won until the team told me,” he said.

Minority interest: Jerry Reinsdorf is commonly referred to as owner of both the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls, but Joe Goddard of the Chicago Sun-Times points out that Reinsdorf holds only 12% of the White Sox and 10% of the Bulls. He is chairman of both clubs.

Great logic: Belhaven College, which until 1954 was a women’s school in Jackson, Miss., will field its first football team in 1998.

Norman Joseph, an offensive coordinator at Southern Mississippi, was named coach.

“I will go after a quarterback first,” Joseph said. “You then recruit defensive players. If the other team can’t score, you are not going to lose.”

She can act too: Peter Leone instructs show people in the art of horse jumping. One of his pupils was actress Julia Roberts.

“Julia was a non-rider,” he said. “But in three sessions, after three days of work, she was jumping jumps in front of the camera with 50 to 100 people dissecting her every move. She was aggressive. She was brave. In my opinion, to do what she did takes incredible courage.”

Trivia answer: Willie Mays and Hank Aaron.

And finally: Orel Hershiser took umbrage at a recent Boston Globe article that referred to him as a pitching relic at 38.

“Does that mean I’m like a saber-toothed tiger fossil that somebody has found in the middle of the pyramids?” the Cleveland Indian pitcher asked.