GOLF

INTERNATIONAL TO CANCEL ITS PGA TOURNAMENT

The International, known for its unique scoring system on a Castle Pines golf course held in the milehigh air outside Denver, will no longer be on the PGA Tour schedule effective immediately, a tour official said Wednesday.

The absence of a corporate sponsor was mostly responsible for canceling the 21-year-old tournament, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision had not formally been announced.

BOXING

MIKE TYSON CHECKS HIMSELF INTO REHAB

Mike Tyson has checked himself into an inpatient treatment program for “various addictions” while awaiting trial on drug charges, his lawyer said yesterday.

“He needed to get involved in something that would help him with his addiction,” attorney David Chesnoff said. Chesnoff wouldn’t describe Tyson’s addictions, but police said the former heavyweight champion told officers that he used cocaine frequently.

FOOTBALL

BEARS FAN WILL CHANGE NAME TO PEYTON MANNING TO SETTLE BET

How do you spell Scott Wiese? In a few weeks, that’d be P-e-y-t-o-n M-a-n-n-i-n-g.

Wiese, a die-hard fan of the Chicago Bears, signed a pledge in front of a crowd at a Decatur bar last Friday night that if the Bears lost Sunday’s Super Bowl, he’d change his name to that of the man who led the Indianapolis Colts to victory. So Tuesday, Wiese went to the Macon County Courts Facility and started the process of changing his name.

“I made the bet, and now I’ve got to keep it,” the 26-year-old Wiese said.