FRANCHISE NOTES

          Bills Owner Ralph Wilson, on a "perceived lack of
     interest" in the team by fans: "It's a major disappointment
     to me.  (Individual-game) ticket sales are as slow as they
     have been in many, many years.  They're horrible. ... I
     don't know what people are focusing in on.  They're not
     focusing in on the Bills. ... Even down in training camp,
     players say the crowds aren't what they used to be"
     (Rochester DEMOCRAT & CHRONICLE, 7/28)....With the Capitals'
     first game at MCI Center on December 5, season ticket
     holders will receive a 10% reduction for all games at US
     Airways Arena.  The money will "be forwarded to the ticket
     holder's playoff-ticket account" (WASHINGTON POST, 7/31).
     ...The Nets fined Jayson Williams $10,000 for his GQ article
     which was critical of Coach John Calipari (ESPN, 7/30).