BUSINESS WEEK's David Leonardt reviews IU Urban Policy
Professor MARK ROSENTRAUB's new book, "Major League Losers:
The Real Cost of Sports and Who's Paying For It." The work,
published by Basic Books, is an "important, if flawed, book.
Its best chapters should be required reading for anybody who
lives in a city that is negotiating to build a new arena"
(BUSINESS WEEK, 3/3)....RICK LONG, a Marine spokesperson in
Parris Island, SC, on RIDDICK BOWE being discharged: "This
was just a case of a recruit who simply refused to train.
There were a lot of occasions when he was told to do
something and he just said, 'No, I'm not going to do that'"
(WASHINGTON POST, 2/25)....TROY AIKMAN was featured on
"Extra" last night. Aikman called rumors that he is gay
"Definitely not true. And I think for those people that
choose that kind of lifestyle, that choose a gay lifestyle,
then so be it. But it's not for me. And it's not a belief
that I have" ("Extra," 2/24)....Former Redskins QB DOUG
WILLIAMS, on the number of endorsement opportunities he had
after being the Super Bowl XXII MVP: "About two. ... Being
the first African American to ever play quarterback in the
Super Bowl, I thought if there was an opportunity for ...
corporate America to show that we do embrace African
American athletes" ("InterNight," MSNBC, 2/24).
