MARKETPLACE ROUND-UP

          In Portland, Abby Haight examines U.S. Soccer Women's
     National Team member Julie Foudy's tour of a soccer ball
     factory in Pakistan this spring.  Nike Dir of PR Jim Small
     said Nike is also offering its athletes a chance to visit
     working factories.  Small: "We kind of reached out and
     talked to them.  The opportunity for them to go over is
     there" (Portland OREGONIAN, 5/10)....While the GTE Byron
     Nelson Classic will move to CBS starting in '99, tourney
     Chair Frank Houseman said Nelson officials expect to start
     talks with GTE to extend its sponsorship deal (DALLAS
     MORNING NEWS, 5/13)....THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR's
     Laurent Belsie examines shoe companies adding foam to
     running shoes: "Suddenly, the recreational runner has a
     world of choice in running gear: solid composites, new forms
     and compressed gas, and air" (CSM, 5/13).