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     Lakers GM Jerry West was a guest on ESPN's "Up Close"
yesterday.  West:  "To think that these franchises can support
$18 million salaries is really not being very truthful.  You'd
better have an awful rich owner because these franchises don't
generate enough money to have those mega-dollars paid.  I look at
some teams today and some of the markets where ... these salaries
are going to be enormous, and I feel badly for them.  I also feel
badly for the fan, because ultimately, they are going to pay for
it" (ESPN, 6/19)....Almost 8,000 fans watched the Devil Rays'
first game in St. Petersburg with their Gulf Coast League team
(TAMPA TRIBUNE, 6/20)....In Tampa, a report by the Tampa Bay
Business Community for the Arts indicated the arts brought in
$211.3M to Hillsborough and Pinellas County's economies, while
3.8 million attended arts-related events.  That compares to a
report by the Greater Tampa Chamber stadium task force estimating
the Bucs had an economic impact of $84M last year with 574,000
attending games (TAMPA TRIBUNE, 6/20)....Pats Owner Robert Kraft
is interviewed in today's BOSTON GLOBE.  On a new stadium:  "I
realize in this town that the only way we'll ever have a stadium
downtown would be if it's totally privately financed.  We have
come up with a program where we're willing to do that, but we
will only put it forward if both the political community first
and the business community support it."  Dan Shaughnessy notes
Kraft "doesn't want to go down in history as New England's Art
Modell" (BOSTON GLOBE, 6/20).

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