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          With six of the week's 11 sessions sold out, the final
     attendance for the Nuveen Masters seven days of tennis in
     Naples, FL, was 37,312 -- a new record.  The previous Nuveen
     record was the '96 Citibank Champions in N.Y., with 35,936
     (NAPLES NEWS, 3/9)....In N.Y., Ira Berkow covered Game Four
     of the ABL Championships under the header, "A.B.L. Has
     Nonstop, Hard-Nosed Action" (N.Y. TIMES, 3/10)....Aetna U.S.
     Healthcare will sponsor a Philadelphia PGA Tour event in
     August, the $300,000 Aetna U.S. Healthcare Classic (PHILA.
     INQUIRER, 3/9)....In Raleigh, Gerald Martin of the NEWS &
     OBSERVER examines Bruton Smith and his growing auto racing
     empire.  Martin: "[A]t some point, he and his kingdom will
     break away from NASCAR and ... form a separate sanctioning
     body, a rival to NASCAR. ... Meanwhile, as more tracks are
     built and as more die, as more and more tracks change hands,
     it is very evident that ownerships and alignments are
     forming solidly on two fronts: the [NASCAR] France front and
     the Smith front" (NEWS & OBSERVER, 3/9)....After his report
     on women's boxing on HBO's "Real Sports," Larry Merchant
     said, "We don't know yet whether this is just a gimmick or
     it's a sport" ("Real Sports," HBO, 3/10).


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