Roy Jones Wins, Barrera Loses in Tampa

Mike McCallum, one of the best fighters of the 1980s, met Roy Jones Jr., one of the best of the ‘90s, and Jones proved beyond a doubt Friday night in Tampa, Fla., that this is no longer McCallum’s time.

Jones won every round on the cards of all three judges and won the vacant World Boxing Council light-heavyweight championship. Jones, 27, was too fast for McCallum, who will turn 40 on Dec. 7.

Jones, who also holds the International Boxing Federation super-middleweight title, became a champion for the third time. He also has held the IBF middleweight crown.

“He’s good, he’s clever, he fought a great fight,” McCallum said of Jones, who boosted his record to 34-0 with 29 knockouts.

In the co-main event, which ended in confusion, a big right hand by Junior Jones started Marco Antonio Barrera to the first defeat of his career and made Jones the World Boxing Organization junior-featherweight champion.

Barrera got up from that right and was obviously hurt. He went down again from a flurry of punches. Referee Max Parker appeared to be stepping in to stop it when Barrera dropped to his knees. The fight then was halted with one second left in the fifth round.

Parker said he disqualified Barrera because his cornermen had entered the ring. The Barrera camp complained that they rushed in after they heard the bell ring.

It was the first defeat after 43 victories, 31 by knockout, for the defending champion from Mexico. Jones’ 10th consecutive victory gave him a 43-2 record with 27 knockouts.

Tennis

Top-ranked Pete Sampras reached the semifinals of the ATP Tour World Championship in Hanover, Germany, and gained his 500th singles victory, beating Yevgeny Kafelnikov, 6-4, 6-4.

Boris Becker, the defending champion, lost to Thomas Enqvist, 6-3, 7-6 (7-1). Becker, who turned 29 Friday, already was assured of a place in the semifinals.

The $3.3-million event brings together the top eight players in the world, with the two top finishers from each four-man group advancing.

In today’s semifinals, Sampras will face Goran Ivanisevic and Becker will play Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek, who finished with two aces in beating Thomas Muster, 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (7-5), 6-3. Krajicek had 23 aces.

Golf

Emilee Klein, who hasn’t made a bogey in two days, shot a four-under-par 68 in gusty winds to take a one-shot lead over Juli Inkster midway through the season-ending LPGA Tour Championship at Las Vegas.

Klein is at seven-under 137. Two shots back were Karrie Webb and Laura Davies, who are battling not only for the season money title, but the chance to become the first LPGA golfer to win $1 million in a season.

Overcoming gusty winds and driving rain, Tiger Woods shot a par 72 and made the cut for the final two rounds of the Australian Open at Sydney. Woods, who opened the tournament with a 79, was 12 shots behind leader Klas Eriksson of Sweden, who completed his second round of 71 this morning to stand at 139, one ahead of Greg Norman.

Ernie Els and Wayne Westner birdied the final hole to help South Africa maintain a one-stroke lead over Scotland in the World Cup of Golf at Cape Town, South Africa. Both South Africans shot par 72s for 140 totals, giving the team an eight-under 280 total after two rounds. At 286 is the U.S. team of British Open champion Tom Lehman and U.S. Open winner Steve Jones. Both shot 70s Friday.

Jurisprudence

Investigators in Cassopolis, Mich., say five members of the Southwestern Michigan College basketball team raped an 18-year-old woman and videotaped themselves in the act. The woman, also a student, had passed out after drinking at a party at an apartment house near campus, authorities said.

The athletes, all freshmen, were expelled from the junior college after their Nov. 7 arraignment.

Pro Football

Eight of nine Canadian Football League teams lost money this season, and some fear that the 84th Grey Cup championship game, which will be played Sunday, will be the last. The CFL was afflicted with small crowds and cash bailouts to keep teams in Ottawa, Montreal and Vancouver afloat.

The 120-year-old Ottawa Rough Riders folded earlier this month at the end of the regular season.

The Toronto Argonauts--led by quarterback Doug Flutie--and the Edmonton Eskimos play for the title in Hamilton. The cash-strapped Eskimos could not afford to fly players’ wives to the game.

Miscellany

Russia’s Alexei Urmanov, the 1994 Olympic champion, won the Nations Cup men’s figure skating competition in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Germany’s Mandy Woezel and Ingo Steuer won the pairs competition.

An appeals court in Boston upheld a lower court ruling that Brown University had discriminated against women athletes by dropping two women’s sports in budget cuts in 1991, but the court said the school could submit a new plan to comply with Title IX, the 1972 law prohibiting sexual discrimination at schools that receive federal money.