Sports People

Lithuanian rider Edita Pucinskaite overpowered the field in a 79-mile road race from Emmett to Middleton, Idaho, in the PowerBar International Women’s Challenge. She won the second stage in the bicycle race in 3 hours, 29 minutes, 10 seconds… . University of Massachusetts basketball coach John Calipari has agreed to terms for a new contract and said he will likely sign Monday or Tuesday… . St. Peter’s College basketball coach Ted Fiore, 51, was fired just three months after Fiore led the Peacocks to a 19-11 record and their second NCAA Tournament berth in five years.

The Pittsburgh Steelers released guard Carlton Haselrig… . Bobby Grim, who began his racing career on the dirt tracks of Indiana before making it all the way to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, died at 69 in Indianapolis… . At Brooklyn, Mich., Jeff Gordon drove his Chevrolet Monte Carlo to a fast lap of 186.611 mph to take the pole for Sunday’s Miller Genuine Draft 400… . Tabasco Cat, the 1994 Preakness and Belmont Stakes winner for trainer D. Wayne Lukas, was retired from racing only hours after injuring a tendon during a morning workout at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.