NAMES IN THE NEWS

     TIGER WOODS was ABC's "Person of the Week" last week.  ABC's
Forrest Sawyer:  "Once or twice in a generation along comes a
young person who can do something so astounding everyone stops to
pay attention.  But it's never happened before in golf" ("World
News Tonight," ABC, 10/25).  Payne Stewart:  "He's very good for
my business.  My business is golf" ("SportsCenter," ESPN,
10/25)....NBC's MIKE DITKA, on the advice agent DREW ROSENHAUS
gave Bucs RB ERRICT RHETT (who will wind up losing over $2M) to
holdout for the first eight weeks of the regular season: "He's
taken this kid down a blind alley.  I think it really hurt this
kid a lot ... it really hurt him with the National Football
League" ("NFL on NBC," NBC, 10/27)...Spurs F CHARLES SMITH is an
investor in the recently-released Spike Lee movie, "Get on the
Bus" (San Antonio EXPRESS-NEWS, 10/27)....KEVIN COSTNER will star
in "For the Love of the Game," a baseball movie about a washed up
pitcher who hurls a perfect game (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 10/27).