More than 430,000 Hillsborough County voters are registered
for the September 3 primary in which a half-cent sales tax
increase to help fund a new Bucs stadium will be decided. An
"unprecedented" 9,000 people registered in the four days before
the deadline. Both Hillsborough County tax proponents and
opponents have stepped-up direct mail campaigns and public event
efforts over the last week (TAMPA TRIBUNE, 8/21)....Two "key"
L.A. City Council members have thrown their support towards the
proposed new Lakers and Kings $240M arena. The L.A. TIMES' Merl
& Simon report the action signals an "emerging political
consensus that the team owners have said they need to proceed"
(L.A. TIMES, 8/21)....In its series on the "building boom" of
sports facilities, NEWSDAY's Robert Fresco focuses on public
financing of arenas (NEWSDAY, 8/21)....Paul Allen's Football
Northwest submitted a site known as the Midway landfill to the
Kingdome Renovation Task Force as a possible site for a new
Seahawks stadium (SEATTLE TIMES, 8/20)....ESPN's Peter Gammons on
the Oakland Alameda Coliseum and its field conditions: "What the
Alameda County Coliseum people did to sell out the A's and get
back the Raiders has become one of the most embarrassing
disgraces in baseball" ("SportsCenter," ESPN, 8/20).
