Tyson Gets 60 More Days in Jail

Indiana didn’t want Mike Tyson back, so it struck a deal to keep the former heavyweight boxing champion locked up in a Maryland jail for an extra 60 days.

Tyson will serve the additional time in Maryland for violating his Indiana probation for a 1992 rape conviction, according to court documents filed Friday.

When Tyson will actually be released is unclear.

His 60-day sentence begins at the end of the year he is serving in Montgomery County, Md., for a misdemeanor assault. The Maryland sentence could be reduced for good behavior.

Indiana authorities could have made Tyson serve up to four years in prison, but they wanted to resolve the issue at no further cost to taxpayers while still holding Tyson accountable, prosecutor Scott Newman said.

Tyson will pay Indiana $80 a day, or a total of $4,800, for the cost of his incarceration, and Indiana will reimburse Maryland authorities.

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Seattle Seahawk running back Ahman Green pleaded not guilty to fourth-degree assault in a domestic violence case. At his appearance in Municipal Court at Kirkland, Wash., Green’s bail was set at $2,000, which he posted. Police arrested Green on Thursday after his girlfriend said he had pushed a door into her face, chipping a tooth and causing a bloody lip. . . . Former Kansas City Royal first baseman John Mayberry was charged with resisting arrest after scuffling with Kansas City, Mo., police who questioned him about a traffic warrant. Mayberry, 50, was stopped Wednesday night and police discovered he was wanted for a traffic violation. When they tried to arrest him he ran off, officers said.

Golf

Greg Kraft sank an 18-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole for a five-under-par 67 and a two-shot lead after two rounds of the Doral-Ryder Open at Miami.

Kraft, who won the Deposit Guaranty Golf Classic when it was an unofficial event but hasn’t come close to winning in five years, is at nine-under 135. South Africa’s Ernie Els and Australian left-hander Greg Chalmers shot 66 and are at 137.

The Skins Game will remain in the Palm Springs area for the next five years. Under a new contract, Landmark Golf Club in Indio will host the event. This year’s event is scheduled for Nov. 27-28.

Tennis

Andre Agassi improved to 3-0 against France’s best player, defeating Cedric Pioline, 6-4, 6-1, in the quarterfinals of the Franklin Templeton Tennis Classic at Scottsdale, Ariz. Agassi, the only seeded player left, will face Jan-Michael Gambill, who defeated Justin Gimelstob, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.

The other semifinal pits Australians Lleyton Hewitt, at 18 the youngest player in the event, and Mark Woodforde, at 33 the oldest.

Skiing

Lasse Kjus of Norway won his first World Cup downhill title by finishing fourth in a race at Kvitfjell, Norway, while teammate Kjetil Andre Aamodt moved closer to his second overall title. Austria’s Andreas Schifferer won the race ahead of teammate Stephan Eberharter and Aamodt. Austrian star Hermann Maier finished 16th and dropped to third behind Kjus in the race for the overall title.

World champion Renate Goetschl of Austria clinched the women’s World Cup downhill title with a victory at St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Miscellany

The San Francisco 49ers took J.J. Stokes off the free-agent market, signing the wide receiver to a seven-year deal worth $3.3 million a year.

Australia’s top Olympic official says he blocked a secret plan by officials associated with Sydney’s bid for the 2000 Olympics to use China’s human rights record to discredit a rival Beijing bid. Kevan Gosper says it would have been “dirty politics.”

UCLA won the men’s distance medley relay at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships at Indianapolis with a U.S. record of 9:33.17. Jesse Strutzel, Brian Fell, Michael Granville and Mark Hauser broke Georgetown’s mark of 9:35.83 set in 1997. Sophomore Nicole Duncan of Cal State Los Angeles won the long jump at 19 feet 10 3/4 inches. . . . Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia ran just fast enough (7:53.57) to win his second consecutive 3,000-meter title at the World Indoor Championships at Maebashi, Japan.

Someone has been impersonating Gene Upshaw, the head of the NFL players’ union, in an effort to get money from college football coaches. The NFL Players Assn. said that an impostor or impostors “have contacted college assistant coaches and asked them to wire money to an individual purporting to be a relative of Upshaw.”

The Galaxy will play Cal State Fullerton in an exhibition Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Titan Stadium. . . . The United States was drawn to play England, Cameroon and Japan in the first round of FIFA’s biennial World Youth Championship for soccer players under 20. The first round of the tournament will be played in eight Nigerian cities April 3-24.

Defending Formula One champion Mika Hakkinen knocked McLaren teammate David Coulthard off the pole position on the last lap in qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix.