ROANOKE (USA): The longtime manager and an associate of former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali have filed a lawsuit seeking to block Columbia Pictures from making a movie about the American boxer's life and seeking $50 million in damages.

Ali's former manager, Jabir Herbert Muhammad, and Jason Marcus Hirschfield, the son of Ali's former attorney, said on Tuesday they control the rights to the three-time heavyweight champion's life story through Muhammad Ali Productions, a production partnership with Ali.

The lawsuit, filed on March 11, alleges that Ali sold the rights to his life story to Columbia Pictures without consulting his partners in the production company after learning they were in talks with another potential film producer.

Boxing scoring

LONDON: Britain's top amateur boxing referee today urged the professional sport to look into computer scoring if it wants to rid itself of corruption allegations.

John Ball, secretary of the All England Referees'and judges' commission believes the furore following the Evander Holyfield-Lennox Lewis heavyweight unification fight could have been avoided if the professionals used Amateur boxing's method.

Hooligan check

MILAN: Three Manchester United soccer fans were arrested and two admitted to hospital after scuffles in Milan bars overnight, Italian News Agencies reported on Wednesday.

-- Agencies