BRIEFLY FRANKEL SETS EARNINGS RECORD.

Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services

Trainer Bobby Frankel set a North American single-season earnings record Friday when Golden Rahy won the $48,000 feature race at Santa Anita's Oak Tree meeting.

The $28,800 winner's share in the allowance race for 3-year-olds and up raised Frankel's earnings for the year to $17,854,877. The previous record of $17,842,358 was set by D. Wayne Lukas in 1988.

Frankel set a single-season record for Grade I stakes victories of 23 earlier in the year.

Also, Doug O'Neill tied the Oak Tree single-season training record of 21 victories set by Bob Baffert in 1998, and tied by Baffert the following year, when Gentleman Player won the sixth race. O'Neill has seven days to break Baffert's record.

MOTOR SPORTS: Ryan Newman won his 10th pole of the season, adding to his reputation as one of the best qualifiers in Winston Cup history. This time, Newman put his Penske Racing South Dodge at the front of the field for Sunday's event at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Ariz.

--Kevin Harvick held off Ted Musgrave for a victory in the NASCAR truck event at Phoenix International Raceway.

BOXING: James Toney signed a contract to fight Jameel McCline in a 12-round heavyweight fight Feb. 7 at a site to be determined.

Toney's promoter, Dan Goossen of Goossen Tutor Promotions in Sherman Oaks, said the fight will be televised by Showtime as part of a split-feed doubleheader. The first fight on the telecast will be Kostya Tszyu defending his world junior welterweight title against Sharmba Mitchell in Moscow.

Goossen said he is looking into sites in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Detroit and the East Coast.

TENNIS: Andy Roddick hit 19 aces at up to 135 mph and beat Jonas Bjorkman 7-5, 7-6 (7-0) to reach the semifinals at the Paris Masters. Roddick's semifinal opponent is Tim Henman, who upset Roger Federer 7-6 (7-5), 6-1.

--Nadia Petrova upset Chanda Rubin 7-6 (7-5), 7-5 in the quarterfinals of the Advanta Championships in Villanova, Pa.

GOLF: Retief Goosen had a 5-under-par 66 in increasingly blustery conditions and held a one-shot lead after two rounds of the Chrysler Championship in Palm Harbor, Fla.

--Heavy rain and strong wind in Sotogrande, Spain, forced play to be called off at the Volvo Masters, the European tour's season-ending tournament. Organizers hope to start the second round today.

--Ahn Shi-hyun tied the course record with a 7-under 65, giving her a one-stroke lead in the first round of the LPGA Tour's CJ Nine Bridges Classic in Jeju Island, South Korea. Michelle Wie shot an 85 and was last in the 69-player field.

COLLEGES: South Florida trustees voted unanimously to back efforts by the university president to move the school to the Big East Conference.

An invitation could come as early as Tuesday when Big East officials meet in New York, president Judy Genshaft said. South Florida is a member of Conference USA.

BASKETBALL: Arkansas is looking into a former player's claim that Razorbacks boosters gave him $10,000 and that he didn't attend classes while at the university.

Glendon Alexander, who quit the Razorbacks in 1997, told Sports Illustrated he received improper benefits at Arkansas and at Oklahoma State, where he played after leaving the Razorbacks.

--Kentucky State coach Winston Bennett was suspended without pay by the Division II school after being accused of assaulting a player.

FOOTBALL: Southeast High of Springfield (Ill.) quarterback Nate Haasis asked officials to erase his record-setting pass because his coach made a deal with the opposing team to let him complete it last Saturday.

ETC.: Prosecutors in Salt Lake City opened the trial against two Olympic-bid leaders, contending the men waged a sophisticated bribery campaign to help the city land the 2002 Winter Games. The defense said Tom

Welch and Dave Johnson did nothing wrong.