Track and field

USA CHAMPIONSHIPS: BYU's Elizabeth Jackson won the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships with a time of 10:07.23 at Eugene, Ore.Maurice Greene and Marion Jones capped their impressive meets by winning the men's and women's 200-meters at Eugene, Ore.

Greene won in a wind-aided 19.93 seconds, Jones in 22.10.

Jeff Hartwig broke his American record in the pole vault, soaring 19 feet, 9 inches; John Godina uncorked the world's best shot put in two years, 72-3; Tisha Waller shattered meet records in women's high jump at 6-6 1/4; Gail Devers won women's 100 hurdles in a wind-aided 12.54.

Auto racing

GRAND PRIX OF CLEVELAND: Colombian rookie Juan Montoya won the rain-shortened Medic Grand Prix of Cleveland, his fourth victory in nine starts.

Montoya was more than 10 seconds ahead of Gil de Ferran after 90 laps, 10 before the scheduled finish. He averaged 93.931 mph.

FRENCH GRAND PRIX: Heinz-Harald Frentzen and his Jordan team took a surprising victory at the French Grand Prix in Magny-Cours, France, his second GP win in 88 races. Frentzen completed 72 laps in one hour, 58 minutes, 24.343 seconds, 11.092 seconds ahead of Mika Hakkinen's McLaren.

SAVE MART/KRAGEN 350: Jeff Gordon won the Save Mart/Kragen 350 on the road course at Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma, Calif. -- for the second straight year.

Gordon held off road-course specialist Mark Martin by .197 seconds in a race marred by seven cautions and a red flag.

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Football

FORMER HEISMAN WINNER DIES: Angelo B. Bertelli, who was the third-oldest living Heisman Trophy winner, has died of brain cancer. He was 78.

Bertelli died Saturday at his home in Clifton, N.J. He won the Heisman Trophy in 1943 while at Notre Dame.

WORLD BOWL: Pat Barnes and Andy McCullough connected on three touchdown passes Sunday in Dusseldorf as Frankfurt beat Barcelona 38-24 in the World Bowl for its second championship.

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