Sports People

Spokane native Chad Little qualified sixth with a lap time of 105.95 for Sunday’s Opryland USA 320 NASCAR Busch Grand National stock car race at Nashville Speedway… . Former Los Angeles Kings goalie and front-office executive Rogie Vachon has been appointed president of the team… . Florence “Flo” Chadwick, a long-distance swimmer who set a women’s record for crossing the English Channel in 1950, died after a lengthy illness in San Diego. She was 76… . . Herb McCracken, 95, the coach credited with inventing the football huddle, died in a Boynton Beach, Fla., nursing facility.