Sports People

Lin Dunn, who led the Purdue women’s basketball team to the NCAA tournament Final Four in 1994 and to three Big Ten titles, was fired. … Veteran jockey Gary Baze, who has announced his retirement from riding effective this summer, recorded his 3,000th career victory at Yakima Meadows. … Former Washington football player Danianke Smith has been ordered to spend at least seven months in a work camp and pay a $1,000 fine for his part in a 1992 drug deal.

Antonio Cermeno retained his World Boxing Association junior featherweight title with a unanimous decision over Yober Ortega in Miami. Also in Miami, Nate Miller defended his WBA cruiserweight title, stopping Brian LaSpada in the ninth round, and former WBC heavyweight champion Oliver McCall stopped James Stanton in the sixth round of a scheduled 10-round bout. … Arturo Gatti knocked out Wilson Rodriguez in the sixth round in New York to retain the IBF junior lightweight title.