Broncos Owner Pat Bowlen, on the team's new uniforms:
"It's become sort of an in-vogue thing to do to write about
how ugly the uniforms are because some nut gets on ESPN and
talks about it. It's almost a joke to me that they'll talk
about our uniforms but what about the other guys. Are Tampa
Bay's so cool? I mean, give me a break" (DENVER POST,
7/21)....In K.C., Mike Vaccaro profiles potential owners for
the Royals, including current Chair David Glass and team VP
George Brett. Members of a possible Brett bid include
Brett, his brother Bobby, who is a sports agent, and Bill
Pereira, Chair of ID-based Diamond Sports (K.C. STAR,
7/21)....The Celtics' '96-97 season is featured in a front
page story by Michael Holley in today's BOSTON GLOBE under
the header "FOUL! Many Strands In Celtics' Season-long
Unraveling" (BOSTON GLOBE, 7/21)....The Red Sox "are hoping
to play a regular-season game in Ireland in the next couple
of years" (BOSTON GLOBE, 7/19)....More than 25,000
individual-game tickets for the Bucs were sold on Saturday,
the first day the tickets were available (TAMPA TRIBUNE,
7/20)....In N.Y., Bob Glauber: "Don Shula has been mentioned
as a possible front man in an ownership deal for the
Cleveland franchise when the city gets a team in 1999"
(NEWSDAY, 7/20)....The NHL Hurricanes have sold about 3,400
season ticket plans (HARTFORD COURANT, 7/20).
