49ers QB Steve Young has been "hired as the corporate
spokesperson and anchor" for the new online iMall Sports
Center (AD AGE, 9/12)....NHRA Top Fuel driver Joe Amato has
added the Hearst Entertainment TV show "Eerie, Indiana," on
Fox, as a sponsor. Amato: "We need to get the kids
involved. Cigarettes and beer aren't for the kids" (USA
TODAY, 9/12). ...MI-based Small Earth Inc. is in Milwaukee
through the weekend buying used pairs of Nike shoes to sell
them in Japan. The company has an ad running through Monday
in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel identifying the models
they will buy. Small Earth pays an average of $63 for a
pair of shoes (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 9/11)....The
common stock of The Marquee Group, Inc. began trading
yesterday on the American Stock Exchange under the ticker
symbol MRT. It was traded on the NASDAQ Small Cap market
and the Boston Stock Exchange (Amex)....Pete Sampras, Jim
Courier, Marcelo Rios and John McEnroe will compete in the
"Nike Cup" tennis exhibition, December 12 in Portland OR, to
benefit the Tim & Tom Gullikson Foundation (Nike).
