FACILITY NOTES

          In Detroit, Patricia Montemurri writes that a "secret
     buyer" is purchasing property in a "chunk of downtown
     Detroit expected to provide parking for new baseball and
     football stadiums."  Speculation "centers on" Tigers Owner
     Mike Ilitch as the buyer (DETROIT FREE PRESS, 9/29)....In
     Washington, Pan & Heath write that during the second game at
     the new Jack Kent Cooke Stadium the "sprawling traffic jams
     ... all but disappeared" (WASHINGTON POST, 9/29)....In St.
     Paul, Charley Walters wrote there is a "rumor" that in '98
     the NFL plans to reserve Sundays at Ohio Stadium in
     Columbus, "in case the Vikings decide to make a quick exit
     from the Metrodome by buying out their lease for" $25M.  But
     that rumor "is news" to Ohio State assistant AD Pete Hagen,
     who said Ohio Stadium will be "shut down the third week in
     November next year for renovation" (St. Paul PIONEER PRESS,
     9/28)....San Diego Mayor Susan Golding "all but endorsed a
     new downtown baseball stadium ... just as she announced a
     new 18-member task force to recommend a location for the
     project and how to pay for it."  She "promised" task force
     meetings would be open to the public (UNION-TRIBUNE, 9/27).