Sports People

Boston College, seeking stability after a turbulent year, apparently is leaning toward former Washington State University assistant football coach Bill Cords, the athletic director at Marquette, to fill the A.D. opening in its athletic department… . Marvin Webster Jr., a Temple University basketball player and the son of the former NBA player, died at Greensboro, N.C., and doctors said they found evidence the 6-foot-11, 250-pound 19-year-old had a weak heart… . Emil “Bus” Mosbacher, 75, the skipper for two America’s Cup winning yachts, died Wednesday of cancer at Greenwich, Conn.