Sports People

Jim Bertken, an outdoor sportswriter for the Los Angeles Daily News, was reported missing from a fishing boat off the California coast and was presumed to have been swept overboard during an overnight charter trip… . Denmark’s Mette Jacobsen won her second title and fourth medal in the European Swimming Championships in Vienna, Austria, taking the 100-meter butterfly in 1 minute, 0.64 seconds… . Terry Elston, a former University of Houston quarterback who was selected MVP in the 1980 Cotton Bowl, died from injuries sustained when he was struck by a car last weekend in Houston, the school said.