Sports People

Heavyweight Mike Tyson and promoter Don King have gone to court to make sure the WBC title will be at stake in Tyson’s March 16 fight against champion Frank Bruno. The suit is aimed at blocking other court efforts on behalf of former champion Lennox Lewis to get damages or force the WBC to withdraw its sanction of the fight at the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas. … Fritz Hanson, a Minnesota native who became one of Canada’s first football stars, died Feb. 14 of pancreatic cancer. He was 83.

Australian swimming coach Scott Volkers is taking legal advice concerning his suspension for two years by FINA, the sport’s international governing body. Volkers was suspended after he admitted giving dual world champion Samantha Riley a headache tablet containing an illegal pain-killing drug last December.