Greene and Jones Take Care of Business at Oregon Meet

Maurice Greene ran one of the fastest, and perhaps the most impressive, 100 meters ever Sunday, a wind-aided 9.79-second clocking in the Prefontaine track and field meet at Eugene, Ore.

Then he capped an exceptional afternoon by beating world record-holder Michael Johnson in the 200 in a barely wind-aided 19.88. Johnson, in far from top form, was third behind Obadele Thompson.

“It shows that American sprinters are not playing anymore,” Greene said. “We’re out for business, and when I step on the track, I mean business.”

Greene, 23 years old, wasn’t the only young American sprint sensation to have a big afternoon. Marion Jones, 22, won the 100 in a wind-aided 10.77, then took the long jump with a leap of 23 feet 11 1/4 inches.

Kenya’s Daniel Komen narrowly missed in his bid to become the first to break 3:50 in a mile race held in the United States. His time of 3:50.86 was the second-fastest mile ever in the country and the top 11 finishers broke 3:58.

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Estonia’s Erki Nool put together a personal best to edge world champion Thomas Dvorak and win a decathlon meet at Goetzis, Austria. Nool, who led after the first day, scored 8,672 points in the 10 events to take home the $12,000 first prize. The Czech recorded 8,592 despite an injury. Russia’s Irina Belova, the 1992 Olympic silver medalist, captured the heptathlon with a low score of 6,466 points.

Basketball

Predrag Danilovic completed a dramatic four-point play to force overtime and then scored five points in the extra period as Kinder Bologna fought back to beat cross-city rival TeamSystem, 86-77, at Bologna for the Italian League championship.

Danilovic, a Yugoslav who had stints in the NBA with Miami and Dallas, finished with 20 points to lead Kinder, the reigning European champions.

Lisa Leslie scored 21 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and blocked four shots as the United States remained undefeated in the Women’s World Championships with a 79-68 victory over Spain at Bremen, Germany.

Allison Feaster, the Sparks’ rookie from Harvard, scored 28 points in 27 minutes at Sacramento to lead Los Angeles to its second straight WNBA exhibition victory over the Monarchs, 89-82. Feaster, before 5,083, made 10 of 17 from the floor, including six of nine three-point shots, and had four steals, two blocks and three assists.

Rowing

Washington won its second consecutive NCAA women’s rowing championship, edging Brown for the team title at Gainesville, Ga.

The Huskies took the early lead, opened up a three-seat lead by the 750-meter mark and won by one boat length over Massachusetts.

A Romanian quartet led by Cornel Nemtoc defeated the British entry that included Olympic champions Steven Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent, handing the pair their first loss in six years after the British coxless four finished fourth in the Rowing World Cup at Munich, Germany.

Miscellany

An autopsy of defensive tackle Leon Bender failed to explain why the second-round draft choice of the Oakland Raiders died suddenly, police said at Marietta, Ga.

Bender, 22, who helped Washington State to the Rose Bowl last season, was found dead Saturday in the bathroom of his agent’s home in a north Atlanta suburb.

The 6-foot-5, 300-pound Bender, the 31st choice overall in the NFL draft in April, had been in Atlanta for about two weeks and had been working out with his agent, Terry Bolar, and a few other players. Bender was staying at Bolar’s house.

Bender’s mother, Antoinette Bender, said her son suffered from epilepsy. It was not known whether that condition might have contributed to his death.

Georgia Tech freshman Bryce Molder, who had nine top-10 finishes in 13 golf tournaments, won the 1998 Jack Nicklaus college-player-of-the-year award.

Brazil tied, 1-1, with the Spanish club Athletic de Bilbao at Bilbao, Spain in the defending champions’ next-to-last exhibition match before the World Cup.

Forward Mike Chappell, who played two seasons at Duke, said he will transfer to Michigan State. He will be ineligible next season.

Jockeys Eddie Martin Jr and Ted Gondron were hospitalized after a spill in a race at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Tex. Gondron broke both wrists while Martin’s injuries were being accessed by doctors.

Kent Steffes and new partner, Brazilian Emanuel Rego defeated Kevin Wong and Albert Hannemann, 15-7, to win the Miller Lite Pro Beach Volleyball Tournament at Corpus Christi, Texas.