LEAGUE NOTES

          The Nuveen Tour was profiled in the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
     MONITOR by Byron Bradley Davis, who wrote, "The big names
     are the bait, the overall presentation is the hook" (CSM,
     8/18)....Mark Rypien has sold his share in his Winston Cup
     racing-car business, Mark Rypien Motorsports, to Roush
     Racing (RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH, 8/18).  Also, Geoff Bodine
     has sold majority interest in his NASCAR Winston Cup team to
     Jim Mattei and John Porter.  Mattei is a private investor in
     Dallas (USA TODAY, 8/18)....Chronicling the Stanley Cup's
     arrival in Moscow, Bob Wojnowski wrote it was "treated with
     an indifference that was not wholly unexpected. ... Interest
     in the Cup ... is expected to grow as it travels to smaller
     town more impassioned about hockey" (DETROIT NEWS, 8/17).