Sports People

DePaul University men’s basketball coach Joey Meyer signed a new four-year contract. Terms were not disclosed… . North Carolina State sophomore basketball guard Clint Harrison has been suspended for the first four games of the season after failing to meet NCAA eligibility requirements… . Pete Sampras officially returned to the top spot in the ATP Tour tennis rankings as the weekly list was released, the day after he won the Paris Open… . Eberhard Thust, a boxing promoter who blackmailed Steffi Graf’s father and was jailed three years ago, was convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to six years in prison in Wiesbaden, Germany… . Retired racer Bill Cheesbourg, who drove in the Indianapolis 500 seven times in the late 1950s and early 1960s, died of cancer in Tuscon, Ariz. He was 68… . In Manhattan, Kan., charges were dropped against Kansas State University linebacker Percell Gaskins, who had been accused in an attack on two men and a dog, after witnesses confirmed the football player was not at the scene of the August attack… . German triple jumper Astrid Mannes has been suspended for three months after testing positive for a stimulant… . In London, Irish jockey Declan Murphy announced his retirement, just one month after making a triumphant comeback from a life-threatening injury.