Sports People

Russian Olympic swimming champion Alexander Popov was discharged from a Moscow hospital, almost two weeks after being stabbed in the stomach, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. Popov, considered the world’s fastest swimmer, has lost some weight, but feels fine, Russian Olympic Committee chairman Vitaly Smirnov said… . Carm Cozza, who has graced Yale’s sidelines for more than three decades and coached the Elis to 10 Ivy League football championships, confirmed this will be his final season, the Yale Daily News reported. Cozza, 66, has a 177-111-5 record, making him the school’s winningest coach… . Former University of Idaho football player Willis Smith, who helped the New York Giants beat the Chicago Bears for the 1934 pro football championship, died Wednesday at the age of 86. Smith, dubbed the “Little Giant” and “Little Mr. Zero,” died in Albuquerque, N.M., of natural causes, his family said. He is a member of Idaho’s Athletic Hall of Fame… . Haley Brooke Herring, a player for the Berea College women’s soccer team, died Friday after being struck by lightning during practice Thursday at Lexington, Ky.