MLS Crew Owner Lamar Hunt said that he "doesn't plan to
     take an active role" in a Dublin, OH, referendum that will
     decide whether his sports group can develop a stadium for the
     team, according to Jeff Ortega of the COLUMBUS DISPATCH. 
     Hunt: "We're really just pretty much leaving it as a process
     that the people in Dublin need to do."  A special February 10
     election will decide if the city of Dublin will participate
     in a public/private partnership with Hunt Sports Group on a
     30,000-seat stadium (COLUMBUS DISPATCH, 12/6).

          "Still stinging from the political battle over funding"
     for the new Brewers ballpark, "key" legislators and WI Gov.
     Tommy Thompson said Friday that the Packers "might have a
     tough time getting state funding for a proposed Lambeau Field
     expansion," according to Jones & Walters of the MILWAUKEE
     JOURNAL SENTINEL.  Packers President Bob Harlan has said the
     team might seek financial support from the state to help fund
     the expansion.  Thompson: "They'd have to have a very good
     proposal before it would pass."  Assembly Majority Leader
     Stephen Foti, noting the Packers' ongoing stock sale: "The
     Packers can afford it themselves.  That was the purpose of
     the stock offer" (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 12/6).