Jones Wins and Records Fall in Brussels

Marion Jones equaled the third-fastest time in the women’s 100 meters with a clocking of 10.76 seconds, but she was overshadowed by world-record performances by Kenyan distance runners Daniel Komen and Paul Tergat at the Van Damme Memorial track and field meet Friday at Brussels.

Komen shattered the 5,000-meter record, clocking 12 minutes 39.74 seconds and bettering Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie’s record of 12:41.86 set 10 days ago.

Tergat set a record in the 10,000 meters with a time of 26:27.85, chopping 3.47 seconds off the mark set by Gebrselassie last month.

Jearl Miles-Clark finished third in the 800 at 1:56.78, but she broke the U.S. record of 1:56.90 set by Mary Slaney in 1985.

Jones matched the 10.76 by Evelyn Ashford in 1984. Only Florence Griffith Joyner (10.49) and Merlene Ottey of Jamaica, whom she beat Friday, are ahead of Jones.

Tennis

Australia’s Patrick Rafter defeated second-ranked Michael Chang, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, to advance to the semifinals of the Hamlet Cup in Commack, N.Y. Julian Alonso, a 20-year-old Spaniard ranked 72nd in the world, upset fourth-ranked Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia, 7-6 (7-4), 3-6, 6-3, and will play countryman Carlos Moya in the other semifinal. . . . Unseeded Sandrine Testud of France upset third-seeded Iva Majoli, the French Open champion, 7-5, 6-3, in the semifinals of the U.S. Women’s Hardcourt Championships. Lindsay Davenport, a gold medalist during the 1996 Olympic tournament at Stone Mountain Park, remained unbeaten on the courts east of Atlanta with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Amanda Coetzer . . . Top-seeded Alex Corretja of Spain was upset by Sjeng Schalken of the Netherlands, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, in the quarterfinals of the MFS Pro Championships in Brookline, Mass.

Basketball

The Boston Celtics signed former Cleveland Cavalier swingman Chris Mills and Sacramento King guard Tyus Edney to free-agent contracts. With Mills gone, Cleveland can make a better offer to free agent Rick Fox, who played with Boston last season and is also being pursued by the Lakers. . . . Tom Chambers, 38, who spent the best years of his 15-year NBA career in Phoenix, is returning to Suns after signing a one-year contract.

According to the Arizona Republic, a federal grand jury is investigating allegations that former Arizona State point guard Stevin Smith, second on the school’s all-time scoring list, took thousands of dollars from a gambler who bet heavily against the Sun Devils in 1994.

Miscellany

A New York City federal judge dismissed an indictment against Don King Productions Inc. in a case alleging the boxing promoter cheated Lloyds of London.

A steady Russian team capitalized on a mistake by Olympic champion Shannon Miller on the balance beam and defeated the U.S. for the gold medal in women’s gymnastics at the World University Games in Sicily. The U.S. men’s basketball team defeated South Africa, 110-32.

Hungarian swimmer Agnes Kovacs won her second gold medal in the European Championships with the second-fastest time (1:08.02) in the world this year in the 100-meter breaststroke at Seville, Spain.

Kenny Wallace won the pole with a lap of 123.039 mph for the Goody’s Headache Powders 500 at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway.

Jimmy Spencer won a nose-to-tail battle with precocious rookie Steve Park, earning his first Busch Grand National victory since 1992 in the Food City 250 at Bristol.

The San Jose Sharks traded defenseman Vlastmil Kroupa to the New Jersey Devils for a third-round pick in the 1998 NHL draft.