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          Projected No. 1 NBA draft pick TIM DUNCAN has hired
     D.C.-based attorney LON BABBY to represent him.  Babby also
     represents GRANT HILL (SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS, 5/22).
     ...DON KING donated $200,000 to the National Council of
     Negro Women (Don King Productions)....MICHAEL VOLPE, the
     former "free agent" fan, has joined Universal Press
     Syndicate as a weekly baseball columnist through the '97
     World Series (UPS)....TIGER WOODS was featured on BARBARA
     WALTERS' "6 to Watch" last night on ABC.  Woods, on whether
     he can just relax: "I can't exactly go to hang out with my
     friends at some of the places we used to and just basically
     raise hell and have a bunch of fun.  I can't do that anymore
     because that's not good for the public to see, it's not good
     for me" ("6 to Watch," ABC, 5/21).

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