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BOXING: NEW YORK: Mike Tyson is looking for a rematch against Lennox Lewis, but the reigning heavyweight champion is looking at retirement unless he can achieve a historic payday. Britain's Lewis took home more than $30 million for knocking out Tyson in the eighth round last month. A rematch clause is in their contract but the champion doubts there is enough interest in a repeat performance. ``People don't want to see that again because of the way I destroyed him,'' Lewis said. ``People feel sorry for him.'' Lewis said Tyson, whose $17 million mostly went to paying off debts from prior deals, has asked for a rematch. Under contract terms, each would be allowed one fight before they meet again. But 36-year-old Lewis said he might retire rather than fight anyone else unless fight telecasters HBO and Showtime came up with a $30 million deal for Tyson-Lewis II, a doubtful prospect. CRICKET:JOHANNESBURG: Cricket World Cup organisers sold tickets to 12 spectators for next year's tournament in South Africa before the system crashed on Monday, sending organisers into a tailspin and stretching the patience of hundreds of fans. Some fans had been camping out in icy winter weather since Friday night, warming themselves beside bonfires. Though the computer glitch was fixed an hour later, long queues were snaking down the road away from ticket offices at Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, Newlands in Cape Town and Kingsmead in Durban ... then the tickets ran out. Cricket World Cup executive director Ali Bacher visited Wanderers after the tickets ran out and assured angry fans they would see the games. Organisers noted all their telephone numbers, and Bacher assured them: ``Our word is good''. The Internet and call centre, which each had 20 per cent of the 220,000 tickets available, were the worst affected and with just 300 tickets sold, the Internet system was shut down. The call centre sold just 3,780 tickets as thousands of people failed to get through. FOOTBALL: LIVERPOOL: New Everton signing Joseph Yobo is clear to play for the English premier league club after the Nigerian World Cup defender was granted a work permit by the Department of Education and Employment. Yobo, 21, who agreed to leave French club Olympique Marseille last week in a transfer worth up to five million pounds ($7.7 million), will now arrive in England towards the end of this week, said Everton on their official website. Yobo, who played in all three of Nigeria's World Cup matches last month, has signed for Everton on an initial one-year contract with an option for a further four years. NEW YORK: CONCACAF President Jack Warner said he wants a fourth team from the region to get a qualifying spot for the World Cup finals. Warner, also a FIFA Vice-President, said the North, Central American and Caribbean Association should get an extra place in Germany in 2006 because of its strong showing this year in South Korea and Japan. The United States, which finished third in the six-team qualifying group, reached the quarterfinals, losing to Germany 0-1. Mexico advanced to the second round, where it fell to the United States. Costa Rica, which missed the second round on goal difference, played in the same first-round group as eventual semifinalists Brazil and Turkey. GOLF: MUIRFIELD: Ernie Els plans to win all four majors have come under the fall-out effect of the Tiger Woods syndrome. The 32-year-old South African admitted that his goal has changed since Tiger burst on the scene in 1997. Els, who already two US Opens under his belt, the last at Congressional in 1994, said everything is now more difficult than pre-Woods. ``It is still a goal of mine but its changed a little bit now. I think before '97 it was looking pretty good because Tiger wasn't around then,'' explained Els. ``It seems now when you play a major tournament you really play the golf course, and you play Tiger. GULLANE: Britain's Nick Faldo might have come to Muirfield this week to soak up some memories, enjoy the applause and see what has changed in the decade since he won his last British Open on the seaside links. Instead he's come with some serious intentions — and a new attitude that might surprise British fans who loved to see him win but weren't always happy about the way he went about it. Faldo, who turns 45 on Thursday, has some special ties to Muirfield, where he won two of his six major championships. After breaking through with a plodding win in 1987, he returned five years later with a spectacular finish to win again. Faldo was the No. 1 player in the world when he won in Muirfield in 1992, a spot now held firmly by Woods. He thought he would go on to win several more majors, but the 1996 Masters he won after a collapse by Greg Norman is his only subsequent major championship title. Since then, Faldo's game has been mired in a deep slump, as he tried to put his personal life together after a divorce, and split with swing coach David Leadbetter and longtime caddie Fanny Sunesson. Remarried and back with Sunesson, Faldo worked on his swing, his body and the space between his ears. The results began appearing early this year with a fit, relaxed Faldo replacing the brooding, intense player who once wanted nothing but to be No. 1 in the world. MOTOR RACING: LONDON: Juan Pablo Montoya and Rubens Barrichello go back a long way together. Far enough for Colombian Montoya to recall how the Brazilian, now world champion Michael Schumacher's Ferrari team mate and his own Formula One rival, once raced against his father and lost. ``I've known Rubens from years ago, he raced against my dad,'' the Williams driver said, to laughter, when asked about his friendship with Barrichello after securing pole position at the British Grand Prix earlier this month. On Sunday, the two South Americans will again be in the spotlight as the world waits to see whether Schumacher can seal the title in France and become the quickest world champion in Formula One history. Barrichello and Montoya, firm friends off the track, can ensure that the title is put on hold for at least another week, even if the German secures his eighth win in 11 grands prix, if one of them finishes second on Sunday. Barrichello, who won at the Nuerburgring, is 54 points behind Schumacher, while Montoya is third and 55 points adrift of the Ferrari leader. Ralf Schumacher is a point back. The title will be over with six races to spare if Schumacher wins and neither of the Latin drivers is second.
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