LEAGUE NOTES

          Will McDonough tells USA TODAY's Rudy Martzke that
     Cleveland will land an expansion team in '99: "[N]o one's
     moving.  You'll see Cleveland get an expansion team, and
     then, probably in 2001, Los Angeles will be awarded an
     expansion team" (USA TODAY, 8/20)....In Detroit, Neal
     Shulenburger writes on MLS, the CISL and the NPSL, as pro
     soccer has been "trying throughout the 1990s to surge into
     the hearts -- and pocketbooks -- of America's sports fans. 
     But at least at the turnstiles, they are failing" (DETROIT
     NEWS, 8/20)....In Milwaukee, Acting Commissioner Bud Selig
     declined to respond "specifically" to Yankees Owner George
     Steinbrenner's voiced opposition to radical realignment
     (RRA), but he said, "There are clubs with valid concerns,
     legitimate concerns.  We're working our way through that." 
     Selig denied reports that the plan "was stalled" (MILWAUKEE
     JOURNAL SENTINEL, 8/20)....In Atlanta, I.J. Rosenberg
     reports that the Braves, Mets, Reds, Dodgers, Cubs and
     Giants are opposed to RRA (ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, 8/20).