BRIEFLY WILLIAMS UPSTAGES GREENE, WINS 100.

Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services

Bernard Williams, the U.S. champion in the 100 meters, upstaged former world record-holder Maurice Greene on Friday to win that event at the Golden League meet in Saint-Denis, France.

Williams, who won the U.S. title two weeks ago, was clocked in 10.05 seconds Friday, his best performance of the season, and edged Nigeria's Deji Aliu, with Greene (Chatsworth resident), the three-time reigning world champion, third.

Greene - who held up the race by false-starting - was timed in 10.11, way off his year's best mark of 9.94 and short of countryman Tim Montgomery's world record of 9.78. Montgomery did not enter the event.

Gail Devers, a three-time world champion in the hurdles, won the 100 hurdles in 12.49.

Olympic 5,000 champion Gabriela Szabo of Romania used a late sprint to overtake Morocco's Zhor El Kamch to win the 3,000 in 8:34.09, the fastest time in the world this year.

Allen Johnson, the reigning 110 hurdles world champion, clocked the fastest time in the world this year to win in dominating fashion.

Johnson, a three-time world champion and former Olympic gold medalist, crossed in 12.97.

COLLEGES: Cal State Fullerton coach George Horton, who led the Titans to their third College World Series in five years, has been selected the 2003 College Coach of the Year by Baseball America.

Horton led the Titans to a 50-16 record and a third-place tie with Texas in the CWS, behind national champion Rice and Stanford.

SOCCER: D.C. United defender Brandon Prideaux was suspended by Major League Soccer for today's game against the New York/New Jersey MetroStars.

The league said he should have been given two yellow cards instead of one in D.C. United's 3-1 victory over Dallas this week.

--European soccer's governing body fined the Turkish soccer association $37,000 for lack of security at a Euro 2004 qualifying match but stopped short of ordering the Turks to play their next match in an empty stadium.

UEFA also fined the Macedonian Football Association $7,400 for its players' actions during the game.

HOCKEY: Forward Pierre Dagenais and goaltender Jean-Francois Damphousse signed two-year deals with the Montreal Canadiens, and forward Jonathan Ferland agreed to a three-year contract.

OBITUARY: Briggs Swift Cunningham Jr., the captain of the winning yacht in the 1958 America's Cup and a longtime sports car racing figure, has died at his home in Las Vegas. He was 96.

JURISPRUDENCE: Marcellus Rivers of the New York Giants and Alvin Porter of the Baltimore Ravens reached a settlement with a woman who accused the former Oklahoma State players of sexual assault in 1999.