Sports People

Bobby Hammond was fired as coach of the London Monarchs of the World League of American Football and replaced by former Denver Broncos wide receiver Lionel Taylor… . Viktor Tikhonov, whose lengthy reign as the iron-willed czar of Soviet and Russian ice hockey produced three Olympic and eight world titles, has been fired as coach of Russia’s flagship Central Army team… . A funeral service was scheduled today for former football coach Ed Kluska, whose Xavier University team beat Arizona State to win the Salad Bowl in 1950… . NASCAR fined Doug Hewitt, crew chief for rookie Johnny Benson Jr., $5,000 and suspended him for two weeks for using an illegal clutch in the team’s Pontiac Grand Prix race last week.