Sports People

Bill Shumard, 45, interim athletic director at Long Beach State since March, was hired on a permanent basis. Shumard spent 13 years in community relations work for the Los Angeles Dodgers, three years as an assistant athletic director at Southern Caliornia and three years as athletic director at Cal State Fullerton. … Todd Harvey and Grant Marshall of the Dallas Stars of the NHL were arraigned on sexual assault charges and released. Harvey, 21, and Marshall, 23, were charged along with two other men in the alleged sexual assault of a 20-year-old woman at house party in Winnipeg. … Osmani Fernandez, a 16-year-old pitcher from the Cuban junior Olympic team defected to the United States, the second team member to do so in a week.