FRANCHISE NOTES

          Maple Leafs Board member Brian Bellmore said that the
     Leafs hope to announce a new COO for Maple Leaf Gardens
     around the end of February (TORONTO SUN, 1/22)....The
     Packers have sold about one-quarter of the 400,000 shares of
     common stock, at $200 each, raising an estimated $20M
     (PHILA. DAILY NEWS, 1/22)....In St. Paul, Charley Walters
     writes that Roger Headrick, "trying to hang on" as President
     of the Vikings, "has not only aligned himself" with
     potential investor Dr. Larry Lemak of Birmingham, AL, "but
     also is trying to team up with" Flyers and 76ers Chair and
     potential Vikings investor Ed Snider (PIONEER PRESS, 1/22).