Sports People

Colin Campbell fell victim to the inept play of the NHL’s highest-paid team when he was fired as coach of the New York Rangers less than a year after he took them to the Stanley Cup semifinals. … Football great Doak Walker, who suffered a spinal injury while skiing Jan. 30, was moved from critical care to a multitrauma unit at Columbia-Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, Colo. A left wrist injury has forced a second postponement of Oscar De La Hoya’s mandatory WBC welterweight championship fight against Patrick Charpentier of France. A new date was not announced. … Grady Lewis, who developed the lowcut canvas basketball sneaker, has been nominated for election to the Basketball Hall of Fame, along with Arnie Risen, a slick and quick center during the NBA’s early days. … Showing no signs of the knee injury that threatened to end her career, Steffi Graf made a successful singles comeback, defeating German compatriot Andrea Glass 6-4, 6-2 in the second round of the $450,000 Faber Grand Prix in Hanover, Germany.