Kenyan Breaks Record for Two Miles

Kenya’s Daniel Komen broke the eight-minute barrier in the two-mile run Saturday, setting a world mark of 7 minutes 58.61 seconds in the Hechtel Night of track in Brussels.

It cut 2.47 seconds off the mark of 8:01.08 set by Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie during the May 31 meet in Hengelo, when $1 million was offered to any runner breaking the barrier.

Komen wasn’t invited to that meet and breaking eight minutes Saturday was worth only a $50,000 bonus.

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Olympic champion Donovan Bailey won his third 100-meter title in 10.03 seconds in the Canadian track and field championships at Abbotsford.

Tennis

Top-seeded Michael Chang improved to 27-3 on hard courts this year, cruising to a 6-2, 7-6 (7-4) semifinal victory over 11th-seeded Brett Steven of New Zealand in the Legg Mason Classic at Washington. He will play Czech Petr Korda, who beat unseeded David Wheaton, 6-2, 6-3. . . . Slovakia’s Karol Kucera upset fourth-seeded Sergi Bruguera of Spain, 6-3, 2-6, 7-5, to reach the semifinals of the Mercedes Open clay-court tournament at Stuttgart, Germany. . . . Suffering from back pain, Monica Seles retired from her semifinal match against Chanda Rubin in the A&P; Tennis Classic at Mahwah, N.J. Rubin will face second-seeded Anna Kournikova in today’s final.

Dorothy Matthiesen of Pasadena and Trish Faulkner of West Palm Beach, Fla., defended their titles in the USTA National Senior Women’s grass-court championships at New York.

Matthiesen defeated Nancy Reed of Winter Park, Fla., 6-2, 6-4, for the 60-69 title. Faulkner defeated Mary McLean of Manapalan, Fla., 6-4, 7-6 (8-6), in the 50-59 final. Tina Karwaski of Glendale upset Ann Etheredge of Birmingham, Ala., 6-3, 6-3, in the 40-49 final.

Pro Football

Free-agent defensive tackle Steve Emtman, the NFL’s top overall draft pick five years ago, has agreed to contract terms with the San Francisco 49ers.

Contract negotiations between linebacker Kevin Greene and the Carolina Panthers have broken off, and the 1996 NFL sack leader was a no-show for the start of training camp in Spartanburg, S.C.

Running back Ricky Watters reported to the Philadelphia Eagles’ training camp despite threatening to sit out unless the team gave him a contract extension. Watters is in the last year of a three-year contract that will pay him $1.8 million this year. . . . Wide receiver Ike Hilliard from Florida, the seventh pick in the NFL draft, signed a six-year contract worth about $12 million with the New York Giants. . . . Defensive lineman Kendrick Burton will miss the Tennessee Oilers’ first season. The second-year player from Alabama was suspended for one year for violating the NFL’s drug policy. . . . Defensive end Dan Williams, Denver’s first-round pick in 1993, has been released by the Broncos after four injury-plagued seasons.

Boxing

Frankie Liles retained his World Boxing Assn. middleweight title with a unanimous 12-round decision over Zafarou Ballogou at Nashville. On the undercard, Tim Austin stopped previously undefeated Mbulelo Botile with 2:20 left in the eighth round to take the International Boxing Federation bantamweight title. . . . Prince Naseem Hamed of Britain stopped Juan Cabrera of Argentina at 2:17 of the second round to retain his IBF and World Boxing Organization featherweight titles at Wembley Arena in London. Hamed, 23, improved to 27-0 with 25 knockouts. Cabrera is 24-3. . . . William Guthrie knocked out Darin Allen in the third round to win the vacant IBF light-heavyweight title at Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio. On the undercard, former IBF lightweight champion Rafael Ruelas recorded a second-round technical knockout against Mike Griffith in a junior-welterweight bout.

Miscellany

Terry Smith, 26, Clemson’s career receiving leader, was shot and killed in Lithonia, Ga., by police who found him attacking his estranged wife with a kitchen knife.

A month ago, police arrested Smith for spitting on his wife and harassing her by phone after she filed for divorce. He was free on bond with the condition that he stay away from his wife.