ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, April 11, 1996 TAG: 9604110060
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From Associated Press reports
Former WBC heavyweight champion Oliver McCall has been released on bond after being charged with possession of marijuana, police said in Winston-Salem, N.C.
McCall, 30, of Collinsville, Va., was stopped by Winston-Salem police about 6:50 p.m. Tuesday. Officers said they found a small bag of marijuana worth about $10 in his car.
McCall was released on $500 bond. His trial date has been set for May 31.
The 6-foot-2, 230-pounder won the WBC heavyweight title with a second-round knockout of Lennox Lewis in 1994. After a successful title defense against Larry Holmes in April 1995, he was dethroned of his crown by Frank Bruno in September.
In other boxing:
nFormer world heavyweight champion Larry Holmes, unable to get his dream bout with another former champ, George Foreman, will fight twice more and retire, he said.
The 46-year-old Holmes has a fight against Quin Navarre April 16 in Bay St.Louis, Miss., on USA Network. He said he would fight once after that and quit.
Holmes' career record is 63-5 with 41 knockouts. Navarre is 17-3-1 with 12 knockouts.
ETC. Dallas might
cap the Cotton Bowl
As much as Dallas considers itself a major player on the pro sports scene, it's really out of the loop.
The Cowboys play in Irving, the Rangers in Arlington and the Mavericks and Stars may be suburb-bound.
When the Cotton Bowl was left out of the rotation to play host to the college football national championship game last season, several local businessmen decided it was time for Dallas to do something big. Why not put a dome on the Cotton Bowl?
The idea finally took off Wednesday with the announcement that Coca-Cola has donated $500,000 to figure out whether it can be done.
``It's both ambitious and feasible,'' said Dallas businessman Darrell Jordan, the group's president.
The campaign to swing the public behind them is based on the notion that if they build it, big things will come: the Big 12 football championship, the Final Four and maybe even the Super Bowl.
Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Johnny Rutherford and British champion John Surtees are among six new inductees of the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.
Rutherford won 27 IndyCar races and is one of only six drivers to win the first time they entered a NASCAR race.
Surtees, an Englishman, won world racing titles on motorcycles as well as in automobiles, posting victories in Europe, North America, Africa and Australia.
Richie Evans, who died at age 44 in a 1985 speedway accident, won more than 400 features races in his career, including 31 NASCAR events in 1983 alone.
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