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          Sports agent DAVID FISHOF is the target of a $25M
     sexual-harassment suit by a former employee, SARA SCHUB (N.Y.
     POST, 11/19)....In MN, 2,500 fans worked as movie extras at
     the Metrodome for the filming of "MAJOR LEAGUE III" (PIONEER
     PRESS, 11/19)....ESPN's STUART SCOTT is profiled in VIBE. 
     Scott "has become the latest in a long line of ESPN stars by
     saturating his broadcasts with hip hop slanguage. ... And
     he's representing the black athlete and the black sports fan
     in a world dominated by the Bob Costas-Marv Albert school of
     sportscasting" (VIBE, 12/97)....Tennis' PATRICK RAFTER is
     named in PEOPLE's "Sexiest Man Alive" issue (PEOPLE, 11/19).
     ....Bonus Books has released, "Agassi & Ecstasy: The
     turbulent life of ANDRE AGASSI," written by former tennis
     writer and Las Vegas Review Journal assistant sports editor
     PAUL BAUMAN (LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL, 11/18)....Former NBA
     player/U.S. Congressman TOM MCMILLAN "is under investigation
     on fraud issues."  McMillan is Chair of the DC-based Complete
     Wellness Centers (N.Y. POST, 11/19).

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