The Bucs will offer their fans discounted season-tickets and
a greater number of lower-priced seats for the '95 season.  The
reduction in the highest price season-tickets is expected to be
from $400 to $360.  This will be the first price cut in the
team's 19-year history.  The team's season-ticket base had
dropped from 29,157 to 23,300, a league low (Nick Pugliese, TAMPA
TRIBUNE, 2/1).

     Ticket holders for the defunct CBA Hartford Hellcats have
options for turning in their tickets:  They may be redeemed for
$10 toward Whalers' regular season tickets; for a 60% discount on
tickets to Univ of Hartford men's basketball; or Connecticut
Skyhawks' USBL games this summer.  Tickets will be refunded only
if bought through Ticketmaster or the Civic Center (Roy Hasty,
HARTFORD COURANT, 2/1).

     Maple Leaf Gardens, Ltd., which owns the Leafs, will need
the team to go far into the playoffs in order to "whittle down" a
projected $1.9M loss this year.  The company lost $3.3M for the
2nd Q ended December 31, compared with a gain of $934,000 last
year.  MLG Controller Ian Clark estimates the team lost $500,000
in pre-tax income for each canceled game (Daniel Girard, TORONTO
STAR, 2/1).

     Vikings President Roger Headrick admitted yesterday that the
team needs to change the way "it deals with people in the
organization."  Headrick made the comments to KFAN-AM radio after
recent reports that "revealed widespread fear and bitterness
concerning the treatment" of Vikings players, coaches and
employees.  Headrick: "This is an area where we obviously need to
do some more and handle things perhaps a little differently. ...
And obviously its an area we need to work on."  Coach Dennis
Green said he "didn't expect everyone to agree with things we say
or do, but we have never intentionally been callous."  Green made
his comments in a videotaped statement sent to local TV stations
(Brown & Roberts, Minneapolis STAR-TRIBUNE, 2/1).  In yesterday's
STAR TRIBUNE, columnist Patrick Reusse blames Headrick and Green
for operating the team "in a manner that made it seem as through
they relished getting rid of people."  Reusse, who chronicles the
team's internal problems:  "Yes, in the arrogant world that has
been created at Winter Park [Vikings HQ] in recent years, a
$150,000 sexual-harassment settlement can be explained away as an
internal matter."  Dan Barreiro writes, "On the same weekend the
49ers were putting on championship rings, another pro football
organization was putting out fires, denying it is running a frat
house, replete with hazing, fear and loathing" (Minneapolis STAR
TRIBUNE, 1/31).  From an editorial in Tuesday's ST. PAUL PIONEER
PRESS: "Just because the business is professional football --
with all its images of power, violence and male dominance --
doesn't mean female employees should be treated with any less
dignity and respect than what they should receive anywhere else"
(ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS, 1/31).