MLB: The MLB Rangers are "stepping up their efforts to
attract Hispanic fans" with an ad campaign and a special
ticket information line. The first Rangers TV ads aimed at
Hispanics feature Ivan Rodriguez and Juan Gonzalez, while
the information line gives callers ticket updates in Spanish
(FT. WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, 12/12)....In the wake of the
Latrell Sprewell incident, Warriors Owner Chris Cohan "has
become the Phantom Owner, vanishing for 10 days straight
while his team burns," according to Ann Killion of the SAN
JOSE MERCURY NEWS. Killion wrote that while "everyone from
Rush Limbaugh to the Los Gatos Lions Club has weighed in on
the issue, Cohan has no words of comfort for fans, no public
support for the coach he hired, nothing." Killion: "This is
wimpiness in the most extreme" (MERCURY NEWS, 12/11).
...Raiders Managing Partner Al Davis, on the Raiders' press
release which criticized ABC's Al Michaels: "I don't write
press releases. The genesis is ... this guy [Michaels] took
three hours of prime time in a premeditated attempt to knock
the hell out of the Oakland Raiders. ... My only approach is
that Al Michaels was out of line" (WASHINGTON POST, 12/12).
