LEAGUE NOTES

          During the Super Show in Atlanta next month, the NBA
     has bought 2,000 tickets for its sponsors and employees for
     the Bulls-Hawks game (ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, 1/15).  In Salt
     Lake, Gordon Monson writes on the NBA under the header,
     "Awful State Of The NBA Deserves Pity."  Monson: "Pity the
     game.  Pity the punks who play it" (SALT LAKE TRIBUNE,
     1/14).  In Charlotte, Ron Green: "News that public interest
     in college and pro basketball has dropped should come as no
     surprise.  The colleges are losing too many of their stars
     early to the pros, where too many of the stars become
     arrogant and whiny" (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 1/15)....USTA
     President Harry Marmion is interviewed in TENNIS.  Marmion:
     "Grassroots tennis must have more resources.  We're spending
     so much money on the [U.S] Open that I worry we're not
     feeding money into grassroots tennis at as great a degree as
     we should" (TENNIS, 1/97).