Tonight's IHL All-Star Game in Grand Rapids, MI, will
be carried in the U.S. by SportsChannel and Fox Sports Net,
and in Canada by TSN and RDS. Fox Sports International will
broadcast the game to Australia, Central America, South
Americas, Russia and South Africa at a later date. The '98
All-Star Game will be held at the Orlando Arena next
February. During All-Star festivities, the IHL unveiled its
retooled site on the Internet at http://www.theihl.com. The
site, by MI-based The Hamilton Group, gives stats and game
recaps, as well as arena and ticket information (IHL)....In
Nashville, U.S. Figure Skating Championships Exec Dir Scott
Ramsey said more than 105,000 people attended all sessions
of the nine-day event and that it will gross just under
$1.8M from ticket sales, concessions, merchandising and
other sources of revenue (Nashville TENNESSEAN/DETROIT NEWS,
2/17). 14-year-old Tara Lipinski became the youngest
figure-skating champion ever when she took top honors on
Saturday night. Later, "it was announced that she had her
own Web site on the Internet. Television appearances were
in the works. The tropical storm of her celebrity had
become a hurricane" (N.Y. TIMES, 2/17).
