STADIUM NOTES

          Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk said Tuesday that asking voters
     to tax themselves "just to build a new sports arena" would
     be so "painful, bloody and brutal," that the city "should
     consider lumping the arena with other civic projects"
     (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 3/12)....The Reds and MLB have
     "expressed concern" to local officials that the team's
     stadium "is being dictated" by Hamilton County's agreement
     with the Bengals.  Hamilton County Commission President Bob
     Bedinghaus, on the Bengals driving decisions on the Reds
     ballpark: "That's absolutely wrong.  The Reds just need to
     tell us what they want to do" (CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, 3/12).