Sports People

North Carolina soccer coach Bill Steffen, winner of two national soccer championships in the past three years, has been named the first women’s soccer coach at Oregon. … Mark Brooks and Brian Kamm, scoring well despite gusty winds, matched 6-under-par 66s to share the opening round lead in the Bob Hope Classic at Palm Desert, Calif. … At Seattle, Marie Connelly, who was the controller of Longacres from 1983 to 1990, has been named general manager of Emerald Downs, the new thoroughbred race track under construction in suburban Auburn. … At Knoxville, Tenn., Michelle Marciniak scored 23 points as the sixth-ranked Tennessee women’s basketball team held off a second-half charge to beat No. 20 Arkansas 78-66. … F. Don Miller, who helped the U.S. Olympic Committee emerge from the turmoil of Cold War confrontation to become a multimillion-dollar sports giant, died in Colorado Springs, Colo., following a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 75.