LEAGUE NOTES

          In Sunday's N.Y. TIMES, Mike Freeman wrote of the use
     of painkillers among NFL players as players, coaches and
     league execs interviewed "estimate that as many as 10
     percent of the league's more than 1,500 players have serious
     addiction problems."  Said one GM: "It's the climate of the
     sport" (N.Y. TIMES, 4/13)....The AP's Stephen Wade profiled
     the World League, which is losing as much as $12M a year and
     has an image that "remains fuzzy" for most Europeans. 
     Reebok has departed as a major sponsor and WLAF merchandise
     sales have been "so-so."  Attendance last year increased 18%
     from '95 to 18,000 a game and American football "draws about
     as well as any other team sport in Europe -- except
     topflight soccer" (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 4/13).