Boxing: Former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was yesterday sentenced to 20 more days in isolation for throwing a television set in jail last week.
But the penalty is not expected to lengthen the prison term he is serving after pleading no contest to two charges of second-degree assault stemming from a traffic accident near Washington last year.
Tyson has been in a restricted environment since Friday's incident at Montgomery County Jail and will continue to be kept away from the rest of the prison population for 23 hours a day. In addition he will lose other unspecified inmate privileges.
Tyson was sentenced on February 5th to two years in prison, with one year suspended. He began serving his sentence that day and is still eligible to file an appeal.
Olympics: Embattled Australian IOC member Phil Coles faced new allegations linked to the Salt Lake City bribes scandal today as a leading newspaper reported he spent two weeks at a luxury ski resort courtesy of the American city.
Lawyers for Salt Lake City organisers have uncovered documents for expenses amounting to almost $10,000 for a two-week stay at a luxury Deer Valley resort booked in Coles' name, The Australian reported.
"According to what we have, we reserved a room for him, paid a deposit and someone checked in on December 21st and was there for 14 days," Salt Lake committee lawyer Beth Wilkinson told the newspaper.
But Coles denied staying there with his family over Christmas 1995, six months after Salt Lake City won their bid to stage the 2002 Winter Games.
He told the newspaper he and his family spent that time with fellow IOC member Jim Eason at his condominium in Deer Valley, close to the plush 20-room inn.
"We stayed there, we cooked our own meals and did everything ourselves, and my records show that," Coles said. "These people have got it wrong again."
Cricket: Leading South African all-rounder Brian McMillan, accused of racism after he asked a team-mate to bowl a "coolie creeper" at the weekend, said yesterday he would not apologise for his remark.
The term "coolie creeper" refers to a slow ball rolled along the ground. But in South Africa, the word "coolie", defined as an unskilled labourer in Eastern countries, is a derogatory term used against people of Asian extraction.
