Miscellany

Promoter Don King is hopeful a heavyweight unification fight between WBA-IBF champion Evander Holyfield and WBC champ Lennox Lewis can be made soon.

King promotes Holyfield. Lewis, of Britain, is promoted by Main Events of the United States and Panos Eliades of Britain.

King’s comments about a Holyfield-Lewis match came on the day both he and British promoter Frank Warren said their 13-year partnership was over.

A field of eight headed by Yellow Ribbon Stakes winner Ryafan has been entered for Sunday’s $700,000 Matriarch Stakes at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, Calif.

Ryafan, who will try to become the first horse to win both the Yellow Ribbon and Matriarch since Sangue accomplished the feat in 1983, will be ridden by Alex Solis in the 1-1/4-mile turf race for fillies and mares.

Kevin Caldwell, 34, of Mooresville, N.C., crew chief for Ricky Craven’s NASCAR team, was released from jail on $15,000 bail in Guelph, Ontario, after being charged with sexual assault in connection with a Nov. 22 incident after a wedding.

Caldwell is jointly charged with Josh Gibson, 22, of Huntersville, N.C., who also works on Craven’s car. Gibson was denied bail. Both men must return to court Dec. 5.

Turkey, determined to push forward with its 2008 Summer Olympics bid, has started work on an 80,000-seat Olympic stadium near Istanbul. It is expected to be constructed in three years. It will cost an estimated $90 million.

Texas Tech defensive tackle Stoney Garland was seriously injured early Friday in an automobile accident that left him on a respirator.

Garland, 21, was in critical condition at University Medical Center after the truck he was riding in collided with a car shortly after midnight. Garland was the only one of the five people involved in the accident to be seriously injured.