Sports People

In Las Vegas, promoter Bob Arum said he plans to go to court over the International Boxing Federation’s decision to order a mandatory rematch between heavyweight champion George Foreman and Germany’s Axel Schulz… . Steve Sippell, an assistant coach for the past two seasons at Idaho State University, has been named the new boys basketball coach at Clovis (N.M.) High School… . Basketball coaches Rick Barnes of Clemson and Dean Smith of North Carolina have been fined $2,500 each for their heated argument during the Atlantic Coast Conference men’s basketball tournament, the conference announced from Greensboro, N.C… . Former University of Louisville basketball player Troy Smith, 24, was granted early release from state prison in Cincinnati after his 1994 sentence of 5-to-25 years for the death of his girlfriend.