Miscellany

Sun., July 20, 1997

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At Nashville, Tenn., Frankie Liles easily held onto his WBA middleweight title with a unanimous 12-round decision over Zafarou Ballogou.

William Guthrie won the IBF light heavyweight title championship with a third-round knockout of Darin Allen in Indio, Calif.

Prince Naseem Hamed stopped Argentina’s Juan Cabrera in the second round with a devastating display of punching power to retain his IBF and WBO featherweight titles at London’s Wembley Arena.

Dario Franchitti, a 24-year-old rookie from Scotland, outduelled a quartet of CART veterans to win the pole for today’s Toronto Molson-Indy.

Franchitti turned a record-setting lap of 105.695 mph on the temporary street circuit.

Virginia basketball star Courtney Alexander was suspended from the team following his arrest Friday on charges that he assaulted his girlfriend, coach Jeff Jones said.

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