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SportsApril 13, 2005

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Baseball

* Mark Prior had to wait an extra day to make his 2005 debut.

Rain caused postponement of Tuesday's game between the San Diego Padres and Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

The game was rescheduled as part of a doubleheader today starting at 12:05 p.m. CDT. Chicago's Kerry Wood will face Jake Peavy in the opener. Prior, activated from the disabled list Tuesday, pitches against San Diego's Brian Lawrence in the second game.

Prior went on the disabled list March 25 due to inflammation in his right elbow.

Basketball

Kenyon Martin of the Denver Nuggets was fined $7,500 Tuesday by the NBA for verbally abusing officials and failing to leave the court in a timely manner after his ejection against Golden State.

Martin was ejected early in the third quarter Monday night for shoving the Warriors' Adonal Foyle, drawing his second technical foul of the game.

Martin received his first technical midway through the second quarter for throwing his mouthpiece in the air after being called for a foul.

After the second technical, Martin yelled at official Rodney Mott for a few seconds, then ripped off his jersey and tossed it to the crowd as he left the floor. Martin also tore off the tank top he was wearing under his jersey and disgustedly threw that into the crowd.

Boxing

Mike Tyson announced Tuesday that he'll fight journeyman Kevin McBride on June 11 at the MCI Center in Washington -- Tyson's first bout in nearly a year.

The 38-year-old Tyson, 50-5 with two no contests and 44 knockouts, lost two of his last three fights. In his most recent outing, in Louisville on July 30, he was stopped in the fourth round by Danny Williams after tearing cartilage in his left knee.

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McBride, 31, defeated Kevin Montiy by technical knockout on March 18 in his last fight. Born in Ireland and now based in Massachusetts, the 6-foot-6 McBride is 32-4-1 with 27 knockouts.

College

* San Diego State athletics director Mike Bohn has agreed to return home to take the same post within Colorado's troubled department, the university announced Tuesday.

Bohn will be introduced as the replacement for Dick Tharp on Wednesday.

The 44-year-old Boulder, Colo., native has a tremendous task, repairing the damage done by scandals within the football program that contributed to the departure of Tharp, chancellor Richard Byyny and university president Betsy Hoffman.

Bohn, who graduated from Boulder High School and whose mother still lives in Boulder, has already worked at Colorado's two other major Division I universities -- as an assistant athletic director at Air Force in 1984-92 and as associate athletic director at Colorado State in 1995-98.

* Barney Poole, a college football Hall of Famer and member of one of the most famous families in Mississippi football history, died Tuesday, school officials said.

Poole was 81. The cause of death was not immediately available.

Born George Barney Poole, he was considered one of the greatest split ends in Ole Miss and Southeastern Conference history, and comprised one-third of the brotherly trio known as the "Pooles of Ole Miss." Poole starred in the 1940s and played seven seasons of varsity football - three at Ole Miss, one at North Carolina and three at Army - because of eligibility policies during World War II.

Tennis

Roger Federer beat Greg Rusedski 6-3, 6-1 in the first round of the Monte Carlo Masters on Tuesday in his first appearance at the clay-court tournament since 2002.

The top-ranked Swiss star hopes to use this tournament to help him prepare for the French Open, the only Grand Slam title he has never won.

Also Tuesday, third-seeded Tim Henman lost to Mariano Zabaleta of Argentina 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, and former French Open champion Carlos Moya was upset by Mariano Puerta of Argentina 7-6 (10), 1-6, 6-3. Puerta won the Grand Prix Hassan II tournament in Casablanca on Sunday.

Federer has won five titles this season and is 33-1, with his only loss coming to Marat Safin in the Australian Open semifinals.

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