CAVALLI LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO STORE ALL HIS RAGE

          ABL CEO Gary Cavalli and other league execs toured
     UPenn's Palestra and Temple's Apollo arena to scout
     potential sites for the relocated Rage franchise, according
     to Mel Greenberg of the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER.  Greenberg
     writes that in walking through the Palestra, "the current
     heat wave had the arena feeling more like a giant sauna." 
     UPenn's Tony Vecchione: "It's warm now, but you play in the
     winter."  Cavalli: "That's right, we play in the winter,
     when you're supposed to play" (PHILA. INQUIRER, 7/18).
          WOMEN'S NOTES: In Chicago, Joe Knowles, noting the WNBA
     fined the Mercury's Nancy Lieberman-Cline $500 for grabbing
     an opponent by the neck: "Oh, now that WNBA slogan finally
     makes sense.  It's not 'We got next.'  It's 'We got necks'"
     (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 7/18).  Noting the Sparks fired their
     coach, Linda Sharp, the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES' Phil Rosenthal
     adds, "The WNBA must be a real league.  Eleven games, and
     they've already fired a coach" (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 7/18).