Miscellany

Serena’s Song has been retired, ending a career in which the 4-year-old filly won 18 of 38 starts and $3,283,399, more money than any other filly or mare.

Don King, in a Paterson, N.J., court, was stripped of the rights to promote a WBC heavyweight title bout, a move that will pay Lennox Lewis $1.5 million less but should assure him a fight in three months.

Canute Curtis of West Virginia, Pat Fitzgerald of Northwestern and Colorado’s Matt Russell were nominated for the Dick Butkus award as college football’s top linebacker.