Sports People

Bruno Pezzey, long a mainstay of the Austrian national soccer team and an acclaimed sweeper for the German teams of Eintracht Frankfurt and Werder Bremen, died Saturday of heart failure. He was 39… .Jim Murray, the Los Angeles Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist, is recovering from extensive heart surgery. Murray, 75, remains in the intensive care unit at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, but doctors report his progress as excellent… .Bonnie Blair, the most successful American woman Olympian ever, won the 500-meter and 1,000-meter races on the opening program of the U.S. Long Track Sprint Championships.