European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday Aprim 2007 stars and s t r i p e s Page 43 swimmer Phelps claims fifth Gold medal in worlds the associated press Melbourne Australia Michael Phelps set another world record in the Pool Friday night this time he needed help from his american teammates including Ryan Lochte who set two world records in the world championships overshadowed by bigger names on the mens team and a frequent runner up Lochte emerged in his own right with a stunning Victory in the 200meter backstroke snapping teammate Aaron Pei sops seven year win Ning Streak Lochte came Back later and joined Phelps Klete Keller and Peter Vanderkaay for a world record Victory in the 800 freestyle relay making Phelps 5for5 this week with four world records in As Many Days the quartet touched first in 7 minutes seconds lowering the time of set by austra Lia at the 2001 world Champion ships in Fukuoka Japan it was locates second world record of the night to go with his new Standard in the 200 Back stroke the United states owns a Lead ing 23 medals through six Days including 13 golds Australia has 15 medals and six golds fridays records made it 12 during the meet with 10 set by the Ameri cans in the backstroke Lochte notched a world record and a Gold medal Over Peirsol the worlds dominant backstroke who haunt lost a 200 internationally since the 2000 Sydney olym pics Kosuke Kitajima of Japan re gained the 200 breaststroke world title he lost two years ago in Montreal he did so without Rac ing rival and world record Holder Brendan Hansen who withdrew from the preliminaries because of a virus Kitajima the current olympic and 2003 world Champion won in seconds ahead of aussie Brenton Rickard Leisel Jones of Australia easily completed a sweep of the Wom ens breaststroke events winning the 200 by seconds Libby Lenton of Australia Defeated a loaded Field in the Wom ens 100 freestyle winning in the second fastest time in history Marleen Veldhuis under world record Pace at the turn took the Silver Britta Steffen of Germany the world record Holder settled for the Bronze Ameri can Natalie Coughlin finished fourth Purdue or stabbed in Chest West Lafayette ind Purdue wide receiver Selwyn Lymon was hospitalized in critical condition Friday hours after being stabbed in the Chest Lymon arrived at a Hospital about with a Stab wound to the upper Chest and told medi Cal workers he was attacked at a nightclub near the Campus said John Walker Deputy chief of West Lafayette police depart ment Lymon 20 of fort Wayne was listed in critical but stable Condi Tion at St Elizabeth medical Cen Ter in Lafayette Hospital spokes Man Matthew Oates said sports briefs police officers were called to the parking lot of Nicks night club about to a report of a fight in Progress Walker said officers found about 30 people gathered in the lot but they dispersed without incident Lymon played in 13 games including 12 starts for the boiler makers last season As a Sopho More he ranked fourth on team with 33 receptions for 580 Yards and three touchdowns and led Purdue with a Yard per catch average Twenty year Low for Blacks in majors last season new York Only per cent of major league players last season were Black the lowest percentage in at least two decades As recently As percent of big leagues were Black according to Richard Lapchick director of the University of Cen trial Florida Institute for diversity arid ethics in sports nine percent were Black in both 2004 and 2005 and the cur rent figure is the lowest since at least the mid1980s he said just 3 percent of pitchers were Blacks in 2006 Lapchick said thursday in his annual study the same As the previous year Lapchick gave baseball a for racial diversity the same As last year and a for gender up from a c its Overall Grade improved from i to b Lapchick gave baseball a for race and a c for gender for its senior administration hiring when it came to team vice presi dents he gave a b for race and an f for gender he gave a d for Gen eral managers Kenny Williams of the Chicago White sox is the Only Black pm and Omar Minaya of the new York mets is the Only latino pm for the Central offices he gave an for race and an a for gender Bob Dupuy baseballs chief operating officer did not respond to an email seeking comment Mitchell expects to Complete steroids probe in months new York former Senate majority Leader George Mitchell has asked to Start player inter views As part of his steroids probe and expects to Complete his investigation in the coming on the eve of the first anniversary of his appointment Mitchell said thursday evidence gather ing has been slowed by Legal is sues none of these obstacles will prevent me from completing the investigation but they have affected the time required to do he said in a three paragraph state ment issued in response to questions posed by the associated press other work remains but i Hope and expect that i will be Able to Complete the investigation in the coming months no one wants to finish this investigation More than i do and i am commit Ted to completing the remaining work and to issuing my final re port As soon As Mark United Stales mens 800meter freestyle relay team members from left Ryan Lochte Michael Phelps and Klete Keller celebrate after winning the Gold medal in the world swimming championships in Melbourne Australia on Friday night the americans set a world record with a time of 7 minutes seconds baseball commissioner Bud Selig announced Mitchells hiring on March 30 2006 Mitchells staff has been at Spring training Camps talking with management personnel his investigators have not interviewed Active players yet Union general counsel Michael Weiner said thursday in the course of our work we have conducted hundreds of inter views of individuals with current or past connections to baseball including Many former Mitchell said i have just recently requested that interviews of current players begin promptly this is one of the final phases of the investigation and obviously will be significant especially since As i have previously said the principal victims of the illegal use of performance enhancing substances by some players Are the majority of players who dont use Houston extends fenders contract one year Houston Houston mens basketball coach Tom fenders contract has been extended through2012 athletic director Dave mag Gard said thursday that fenders had dramatically improved the cougars program and school officials wanted to publicly display their Confidence in fenders the University did not release financial details of the oneyear Extension fenders 61 led the cougars to a third straight winning season with an 1815 record finishing in third place in conference Usa with a 106 record he is 5739 after three seasons at Houston a former head coach at George Washington and Texas fenders has a lifetime 584400 record Indiana St selects Creighton assistant Mckenna As coach Terre haute ind Kevin Mckenna a former Aba player and an assistant coach at Creight on for nine years was hired thursday by Indiana state for his first division i head coaching position Mckenna 47 succeeds Royce Waltman who was fired this month after the sycamores finished their sixth straight losing season with a loss to Creighton in the Missouri Valley conference tournament regents approve raise for Gillispie College station Texas Texas Billy Gillispie has agreed to a new contract that puts him among the highest paid coaches in the big 12 a school spokesman said Friday Texas spokesman Alan Cannon said Gillispie  sign the Deal approved by re gents Friday until he returned from the final four in Atlanta next week Gillispie who was courted by Arkansas and has been mentioned As a candidate for the Ken Tucky opening would get a raise to million big 12 Leader Rick Barnes of Texas makes million Kan Sas Bill self who was Gill spies Boss at Tulsa and Illinois makes million the 47yearold Gillispie took the aggie to the Mcaa tournaments round of 16 this year for the first time since 1980 was just three years re moved from finishing 016 in the big 12 Brown staying at Albany Albany Albany coach will Brown has agreed to a contract Extension that runs through the 201112 season the 35yearold Brown who just finished his sixth season As Albanys coach guided the great Danes to their second straight America East conference championship and Mcaa tournament berth Albany went 2310 its second straight 20victpry season and lost to Virginia in the first round of the tournament St Bonaventure had been Pur suing Brown for its opening Taylor set to fight Spinks Little Rock Ark Jer main Taylor will put his Middle weight title on the line May 19 against Cory Spinks in Memphis Tenn its Taylors second straight fight against someone from a smaller weight class Spinks the son of former heavy weight Champion Leon Spinks is the if Junior middleweight Champion organizers held a teleconference thursday for the fight which will be televised by Hob Taylor a Little Rock native beat former Junior middleweight Champion Kassim Ouma in a de Cember decision that fight was in North Little Rock before that though Taylor 2601 proved he was willing and Able to fight the Middle weight divisions top names he became the middleweight Cham Pion in july 2005 by beating ber Nard Hopkins in Las vegas then out pointed Hopkins there again that december Taylor escaped with a draw against Winky Wright in june in Memphis Spinks is 363