In a conversation with THE DAILY yesterday, Brewers
VP/Corporate Affairs Laurel Prieb disputed a recent article in
MILWAUKEE MAGAZINE that said two minority owners of the Brewers
are attempting to sell their shares due to "increasing turmoil"
and "mounting debts." Prieb told THE DAILY rumors of
dissatisfaction with the club's majority Owner Bud Selig are
"totally erroneous and without substance." Prieb said the
article's "conjecture" about changes in the Brewers ownership
structure are "absolutely untrue," adding that the "same
ownership continues to be in control of the franchise and nothing
will change from a control perspective" (THE DAILY)....Steve
Caulk of the ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS reports Comsat Corp. has "no
specific candidates in sight" for the sale of Ascent
Entertainment, owner of the Nuggets and Avalanche. Regarding
reports of Nike's interest, analyst Ted Henderson of CO-based
Janco Partners, believes Ascent "would not appeal" to a company
like Nike because Ascent's "core business" is its On Command
division of pay-per-view movie distribution to hotels (ROCKY
MOUNTAIN NEWS, 10/22)....A report entitled "Vancouver Trends" by
the Vancouver City Planning Department revealed that the Orca
Bay-owned Grizzlies and Canucks drew 1.4 million of the total two
million people who paid to see pro sports in the area in '95-96
(VANCOUVER SUN, 10/23)....The effort to sell 40,000 PSLs for a
proposed new Bengals stadium was a factor in the firing of coach
David Shula on Monday. Bengals GM Mike Brown: "Our stadium
project is a critical thing to the future of the Bengals. It has
to succeed if we're going to make a go here. ... We have undercut
our public support by the way we have failed to win" (CINCINNATI
ENQUIRER, 10/22). ...Mighty Ducks mascot Wildwing has been
replaced by a new "beefed-up" mascot whose more muscular build is
based on the Wildwing character in the "Mighty Ducks" animated TV
series (ELECTRONIC MEDIA, 10/21 issue)....While Twins attendance
was up 379,685 in '96 over '95, the club's gross gate income was
up "only" $2,301,767 from $11,270,589 in '95. The Twins share of
concession income was up $847,759 from $1,459,383 last year to
$2,307,142 this year (Minneapolis Star Tribune, 10/20).
