Sports People

Goaltender Guy Hebert - who had a career-best 29 wins last season for the Anaheim Mighty Ducks - has signed a two-year contract with the team… . University of California basketball coach Ben Braun (356-244 in 20 seasons of college coaching) agreed to a new five-year contract that will last through the 2001-2002 season… . Madison Square Garden president Dave Checketts, a Utah native and former president of the Utah Jazz, said he has no intention of leaving his post to take over as chief of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City… . Anna Kournikova, citing difficulties in her family’s application for permanent resident status in the U.S., withdrew from the du Maurier Open women’s tennis tournament.