FRANCHISE NOTES

          Nancy Irsay, the widow of former Colts Owner Robert
     Irsay, filed a petition in a Hamilton County, OH, court
     yesterday to revoke the sale of half the team's stock to
     Irsay's son and ex-wife (AP/STAR-NEWS, 5/14)....In Ft.
     Lauderdale, Larry Lebowitz notes Heat officials "may have
     cost themselves goodwill with the ticket-buying public by
     raising Game 5 tickets as much as 263 percent without
     notice."  Announced attendance at Miami Arena for the Heat-
     Knicks game last night was 14,782; 200 shy of a sell out
     (SUN-SENTINEL, 5/15)....In Montreal, Jack Todd: "This is the
     watershed season for the Expos.  This is the year [President
     & General Partner] Claude Brochu will announce that they are
     building a new downtown ball park or he will announce that
     they are leaving town. ... Sooner rather than later, they
     are going to have to find a way to keep their stars on the
     field. ... there's no point laying the foundation for a new
     ball park if you don't lay the foundation for your club at
     the same time" (Montreal GAZETTE, 5/15).