Mickelson, Furyk Share Lead

Defending champion Phil Mickelson shot a five-under 65 Thursday for a share of the first-round lead with Jim Furyk in the Colonial tournament at Fort Worth.

Mickelson and Furyk, who had their best opening rounds of the year, were a stroke in front of Brian Gay and two ahead of 1995 champion Tom Lehman, David Toms and Mark Brooks.

Mickelson, trying to become the only player other than Ben Hogan to win the Colonial in consecutive years, birdied the final three holes on the 7,080-yard Colonial course.

New Zealand’s Michael Campbell took the spotlight from Tiger Woods by shooting a 10-under-par 62 in the rain-plagued Deutsche Bank-SAP Open at Heidelberg, Germany.

Woods, the 1999 winner making his third consecutive appearance in the event, opened with a 69 in the tournament that was delayed by rain for seven hours.

Alex Paek of Marshall shot a final-round, two-over-par 74 on the Wilson course at Griffith Park to win the City Section boys’ golf championship.

Paek’s two-day total of 147 edged Ed Turner of Palisades by one stroke.

Granada Hills won the team title with a 789, edging Hamilton by six strokes. Defending champion Palisades was third at 799.

Football

New Orleans Saint running back Ricky Williams said he has social anxiety disorder.

Williams said he met with a psychiatrist about two months ago and was diagnosed as depressed. He said he began taking medication about a week ago.

“As we talked more, we got into the fact that I had a problem in social situations,” Williams told The Times-Picayune of New Orleans. “All it is, I’m extremely shy.”

The Pittsburgh Steelers signed offensive lineman Chukky Okobi, a 2001 fifth-round draft selection, to a multiyear contract. . . . Mark Hatley, the former vice president of player personnel for the Chicago Bears, was hired by the Green Bay Packers as vice president of football operations. . . . MBNA Corp. Chief Executive and Cleveland Brown owner Alfred Lerner returned home Wednesday, a day after undergoing brain surgery, corporate spokesman Brian Dalphon said. . . . Miami Dolphin owner Wayne Huizenga has scrapped plans to sell minority ownership interests in the team and Pro Player Stadium.

Jurisprudence

New York Giant defensive end Jeremiah Parker and girlfriend Tauleah Kelly were charged with aggravated manslaughter in the death of Kelly’s 4-year-old son.

Parker, 23, who played four games for the Giants last season, remained in the Passaic County, N.J. Jail on $500,000 bail. Kelly, the 19-year-old mother of Elijah Kelly, also was being held there on $1-million bail.

Olympic archery champion Justin Huish pleaded no contest to a felony charge of selling marijuana and is expected to be sentenced to six months in jail.

Huish, 25, faced up to three years in prison if convicted of dealing drugs out of his Simi Valley home. The 1996 gold medalist entered his plea in a Ventura courtroom Wednesday and will be sentenced June 13.

Miscellany

Keilon Fortune, the Southern Section Division V basketball co-player of the year, is being sought by authorities after failing to return to Camp Kilpatrick juvenile detention center following an all-star game, an L.A. County Probation Dept. source said.

Fortune had been detained since July at Kilpatrick, an L.A. County probation camp in Malibu, after his arrest for having an unregistered firearm in a car.

Martina Hingis rallied after losing the first three games in the final set for a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Russia’s Elena Likhovtseva in the third round of the Italian Open at Rome. Other third-round winners were Conchita Martinez, Amelie Mauresmo, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario and Jelena Dokic.

Lleyton Hewitt of Australia needed five match points to defeat compatriot Andrew Ilie, 6-2, 7-6 (2) and reach the quarterfinals of the German Open at Hamburg. Spain’s Juan Carlos Ferrero also advanced, defeating Ecuador’s Nicolas Lapentti for his 14th consecutive victory.

King defenseman Jaroslav Modry underwent surgery to repair a tear to an abdominal muscle. He is expected to make a full recovery.

Tairia Mims, Claire Sua and Courtney Dale hit home runs to power host UCLA (56-5) to an 8-0 five-inning victory over Coastal Carolina in an opening-round NCAA softball regional game called by the mercy rule.

Sandra Durazo pitched a one-hitter as San Diego State (39-23) defeated Cal State Northridge, 2-0. Sarah Farnworth scattered four hits for the Matadors (31-23).

At Tucson, Christy Robitaille threw a three-hit shutout as Cal State Fullerton (47-12) defeated Texas Tech, 1-0.

Jewel Peterson led a near sweep in singles play as USC avenged an earlier loss to Northwestern with a 5-1 victory in the third round of the NCAA women’s tennis championships at Stone Mountain, Ga. Also, Vanderbilt ended UCLA’s season with a 4-1 victory.

Doctors at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center found a broken bone just above Joe Nemechek’s right elbow in addition to the other injuries the NASCAR driver sustained during a testing crash this week in Delaware.

Washington State linebacker Curtis Holden has been ruled academically ineligible to play football for the second consecutive season. . . . New York Ranger defenseman Tomas Kloucek will undergo reconstructive surgery tomorrow on his left knee to repair the anterior cruciate ligament, the team said. . . . The Columbus Crew fired Tom Fitzgerald as coach and promoted assistant Greg Andrulis on an interim bases.

Passings

Charlie Coe, a lifelong amateur golfer who twice won the U.S. Amateur championship, died in his sleep at his Oklahoma City home. He was 77. Coe won the U.S. Amateur in 1949 and 1958, and was runner-up to Jack Nicklaus in 1959.

Murray Murdoch, the former New York Ranger forward who coached Yale for 27 seasons, died in Pawley’s Island, S.C. He was 96.