SHOWDOWN FOR LEAFS AND TORONTO COUNCIL OVER UNION STATION

          Plans for a new Maple Leafs Gardens at Union Station
     "will die today unless the hockey franchise makes Toronto
     council a better cash offer" for land it needs to build the
     C$300M arena, according to Don Wanagas of the TORONTO SUN. 
     But Leafs officials said yesterday "there's no way" they'll
     pay more than the C$34M the team offered last week.  MLG VP
     Tom Anselmi: "That's the bottom line. ... The economics of
     the project just don't allow it to go any higher" (TORONTO
     SUN, 6/24).  If the Union Station site is unworkable, the
     team would now "either stay at the aging Gardens for a
     couple of years or quickly pursue an alternate site" (Lance
     Hornby, TORONTO SUN, 6/24).  Also in Toronto, Craig Daniels
     writes that the appearance of MLG minority partner Larry
     Tanenbaum's name on a MLG press release is "a further signal
     of his growing control and influence at the Gardens in the
     wake of the board changes last month" (TORONTO SUN, 6/24).