Sports People

Oklahoma State has scheduled a news conference in Stillwater, Okla., today amid reports that baseball coach Gary Ward, 56, is resigning after leading the Cowboys to 16 consecutive Big Eight Conference titles and 10 College World Series appearances… . A San Antonio, Texas, jury - after hearing Alvin Robertson plead from the witness stand for another chance - sentenced the former NBA all-star to 10 years’ probation and fined him $10,000 for the burglary of his ex-girlfriend’s apartment… . World and Olympic ski champion Alberto Tomba, 29, could be sidelined as long as a month after bruising his left knee and spraining his wrist in a training-run fall at Passo Del Tonale, Italy.