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© St. Petersburg Times, published January 19, 2001

Marijuana in Tyson's system on Oct. 20

Mike Tyson tested positive for marijuana after he beat Andrew Golota on Oct. 20, according to a formal complaint released Thursday by the state of Michigan.

Earlier this week, state regulators suspended Tyson's Michigan boxing license for 90 days and fined him $5,000 for refusing to submit to a urine test before the fight at the Palace of Auburn Hills.

The settlement made no mention of a urine sample Tyson gave after the fight. But according to the complaint, that sample tested positive for marijuana. The complaint was obtained by the Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request.

The license suspension, fine and a $200,000 donation from Tyson to various charities were part of a settlement between the nine-member board and Tyson's attorney, Neil Fink of Birmingham.

The settlement listed Tyson's refusal to submit to the prefight test as his only violation. It made no mention of the failed test, which Fink said "was not before the board."

"Mr. Tyson was never tried on that, and we don't intend to litigate it in the media," Fink told the Detroit News.

MORE BOXING: Lou Del Valle, former WBA light heavyweight champion, stopped Earl Butler in the fourth round of a scheduled 10-round bout at Yonkers (N.Y.) Raceway on Wednesday night. Del Valle fought for the first time in 15 months and knocked out Butler with a hard right to the chin 41 seconds into the round.

PREPS: A player in Texas scored 101 points in a basketball game on the same night that another player in New Jersey scored 100 -- the first time anyone reached triple digits since 1979. Heritage Christian Academy junior Cedric Hensley scored 101 in a 178-28 victory over Banff Christian School of Tomball, and DaJuan Wagner scored 100 for Camden High in a 157-67 victory over Gloucester Township Technical School at Camden, N.J., Tuesday. Hensley and Wagner were the 13th and 14th boys' players to score at least 100, according to the National High School Sports Record Book.

SWIMMING: Jason Lezak capitalized on the absence of Mark Foster to win the 50-meter freestyle at a World Cup short-course meet in 21.39 seconds. The American finished .72 seconds ahead of Russia's Denis Pimakov at the Ponds Forge pool in Sheffield, England. Foster, who set a world short-course record in the 50-meter butterfly Wednesday, withdrew from the freestyle because of a back injury.

AUTOS: The CART series is adding a new Canadian venue, racing in Montreal for the first time in August 2002. The Montreal event is expected to replace the CART event now run in the streets of Vancouver, where nearly constant new construction has forced changes in the track every year. CART also races annually in Toronto.

SOCCER: Foxboro (Mass.) Stadium will host U.S. World Cup qualifiers against Trinidad and Tobago on June 20 and Jamaica on Oct. 7. The match against Trinidad and Tobago will be the fifth of 10 for the United States in the final round of qualifying for the North and Central American and Caribbean region known as CONCACAF. The match against Jamaica will be the U.S. team's final home game in the qualifying round. . . . Los Angeles won a 5-3 penalty-kick decision over Honduras' Real CD Espana on the opening night of the CONCACAF Champions Cup in Fullerton, Calif. In an earlier game, D.C. United beat LD Alajuelense of Costa Rica 2-1. ... Major League Soccer probably won't expand by two teams in 2002 as had been planned and is re-evaluating when it will add teams, commissioner Don Garber said. "We're focusing on 2003," he said. "We still have another 60 days to firmly establish that it will not be in 2002."

BOWLING: Jason Couch rolled his second perfect game of the tournament to take a 181-pin lead after the second round of qualifying in the PBA Tour's Silicon Valley Open at Daly City, Calif. Mike Aulby was second, followed by Dennis Horan (3,823), Tim Criss (3,804), Jess Stayrook (3,799) and John May (3,775).

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