Burrell Wins World-Class 100

Leroy Burrell surprised world record-holder Carl Lewis and Olympic champion Linford Christie in their 100-meter showdown Wednesday at Zurich, Switzerland, winning in 10.02 seconds.

Burrell, a former world record-holder, caught Christie at the finish in winning by 0.01 seconds at the Weltklasse Grand Prix meet.

“This was a career race for me, to prove I’m still a world-class racer,” said Burrell, who failed to make the U.S. 100-meter team for the World Championships at Stuttgart, Germany, starting on Aug. 14.

U.S. champion Michael Johnson won the 400 in 44.22; world record-holder Butch Reynolds was fourth in 44.62, Olympic gold medalist Quincy Watts fifth in 44.65.

Jamaica’s Merlene Ottey beat Olympic champion Gail Devers in the women’s 100 in 10.93. Devers finished third in 11 flat, edged by Gwen Torrence in 10.98.

Johnny Gray won the 800 in 1:44.03.

NCAA

The NCAA’s gender equity task force spared major college football, but did not satisfy many in making recommendations.

The task force, which spent more than a year studying the breakdown between men and women’s athletics, announced its recommendations for next January’s NCAA convention.

The task force said emerging women’s sports should be acceptable for meeting minimum sports sponsorship requirements and revenue distribution and that the council should “create a mechanism to identify future emerging sports.”

Emerging sports were identified as crew, ice hockey, team handball, water polo, synchronized swimming, archery, badminton, bowling and squash.

Pro Basketball

Jon Spoelstra, a sports marketing consultant, was hired as president and chief operating officer of the New Jersey Nets. . . . Sheryl Swoopes, who led Texas Tech to the NCAA championship in women’s basketball, signed a one-year contract with Bari in the Italian I-A league. . . . Geert Hammink, a former Louisiana State center who was drafted in the first round by the Orlando Magic, signed a one-year contract with Cantu in the Italian 1-A League. . . . The father of Charlotte Hornet guard Muggsy Bogues, Richard Bogues, 56, was found dead inside a housing project near Baltimore’s Dunbar High, where his son played. . . . First-round draft pick Ervin Johnson of the University of New Orleans signed a three-year contract with the Seattle SuperSonics.

Jurisprudence

Eddie Kellum, University of Akron basketball player, and William Crawford, son of basketball Coach Coleman Crawford, are among four students facing drug and weapons charges in Akron, Ohio.

Miscellany

Fumi Jamie Koizumi and Alicia Allison, champion and runner-up in the 1992 USGA Girls’ Junior Championship, lost in the second round of match play in the 1993 tournament Wat Mesa Verde Country Club in Costa Mesa.

Koizumi, 17, who will be a sophomore at Duke, was beaten by Jenny Lee of San Bernardino, 3 and 2. Allison, 17, of Santa Ana was beaten, 3 and 2, by Kelli Kuehne of McKinney, Tex.

Medalist Cristie Kerr of Miami and Coto de Caza’s Kellee Booth, who had the second-best stroke-play score, won two matches to advance to today’s round of 16.

Jamie Watkins of Jacksonville, Fla., and John Eisler of Portland, Ore., won the first two events of the Speedo National Junior Olympic Diving Championships in Pasadena. Watkins, 13, won the girls 13-and-under three-meter springboard with 349.25 points. Eisler, 15, won the boys 14-15 one-meter springboard with 427.80 points.