Webb Is Winner in 800

Alan Webb, who last Sunday broke Jim Ryun’s 36-year-old U.S. record for a mile by a high school runner, ran the fourth-fastest 800 meters by a U.S. scholastic runner Saturday at Richmond, Va.

The South Lakes senior ran the 800 in 1 minute 47.74 seconds to set the Virginia Group AAA meet record and win the 12th state title of his career. He did not run the mile.

The national prep record for the 800 is 1:46.45, set by Michael Granville of Bell Gardens on May 31, 1996.

Motor Racing

Jimmy Spencer waited out two rain delays to win the MBNA Platinum 200 Busch Series race at Dover, Del.

Spencer put his car in front on the 179th of 200 laps when he got by Mike Skinner, who spun out leader Bobby Hamilton Jr. on the high-banked third turn at Dover Downs International Speedway.

Points leader Scott Riggs won the NASCAR Craftsman Truck race at Dover to give Dodge a record-tying eighth consecutive victory.

Rain washed out qualifying for the Miller Lite 225 at Milwaukee. Kenny Brack, CART’s points leader, has the pole for today’s race. . . . World championship motorcycle leader Valentino Rossi clinched the pole position in 500-cc qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix at Scarperia, Italy.

A steady rain forced the cancellation of the Miller Lite 75 Super Late Model main event at Irwindale Speedway. The rainout was especially hard on Sean Woodside and Tim Woods, who had raced in the NASCAR Winston West event at the new Kansas Speedway earlier in the day and flew back in time to race.

Miscellany

The 2003 World Gymnastics Championships have been moved to the Arrowhead Pond from Indianapolis, a shift made necessary when the event was moved to August from November.

The Pond and the L.A. Sports Council will serve as co-hosts of the championships, which will be held Aug. 16-24.

Nick Gilliam won the individual title and led Florida to its fourth team crown in the NCAA men’s golf championships at Durham, N.C.

Gilliam shot a one-under-par 71 in the final round at Duke University Golf Club to finish at 12-under 276. He beat teammate Camilo Benedetti and Augusta State’s Jamie Elson by three shots.

Florida finished 18 shots ahead of Clemson.

Humberto Contreras of Colombia outsprinted a small group that included overall race leader Gilberto Simoni of Italy to win the 14th stage of the Giro d’Italia at Arco, Italy in 5:13.31.

Wladimir Belli, who was in third place in the overall standings, was kicked out of the race for punching a fan, who turned out to be the nephew of Simoni.

“I made a mistake,” Belli was quoted as saying by the Italian news agency Ansa. “They made me nervous along the climb and it was an instinctive reaction.”

The Buffalo Sabres might lose the rights to promising prospect Michael Zigomanis because although the team contends it did file all contract documents before the NHL-imposed deadline Friday, it may not have included all the proper information. A decision on an appeal will come Monday if not resolved.

The U.S. men’s national water polo team lost to Spain, 7-1, and Italy, 6-3, in the Trofeo de Siracusa tournament at Syracuse, Italy.

More than a day after Buffalo Bill linebacker Corey Moore was shot in the leg, police in Tennessee have made no arrests and have no motive.

Moore, 24, was stopped at an intersection in his Ford Expedition in Brownsville, Tenn., between 2:30 and 3 a.m. Friday morning when an unknown assailant walked up to the car and shot him, said Johnny Blackburn, assistant chief of the Brownsville Police Department.

Moore, who lives in Brownsville, drove himself to Methodist Haywood Park Hospital where he was treated and released.

Passings

Jim Whatley, 88, a three-sport coach at Georgia and an NFL player in the 1930s with the Brooklyn Dodgers, died Thursday at Athens, Ga., of heart failure. Whatley was a standout tackle on the 1934 Alabama football team that defeated Stanford in the Rose Bowl.