FAME'S DAVID FALK is interviewed in the WASHINGTON POST
and discusses a number of subjects, saying that in the last
four months MICHAEL JORDAN has turned down $300M worth of
new deals. Falk: "Basketball -- and a little bit because of
Michael's influence -- has become like a hybrid sport. It's
really not a team sport anymore. ... [I]t's become a
scenario where the star player or two on a team have
transcended the boundaries of what it used to be." Falk
also talks of his relationship with Wizards Owner ABE
POLLIN: "I would like to represent the whole team because
it's where I live. And amazingly, he doesn't either agree
or visualize that we should be partners in bringing great
basketball to Washington. ... (The relationship) is really
very, very frustrating" (WASHINGTON POST, 3/23).
READY ORR NOT? A CANADIAN PRESS report states that the
signing of hockey adolescents, the "latest trend in the
world of recruiting has sparked a fierce debate in the
hockey world. The question is: when does a player need
representation? How young is too young?" The report
profiles agent BOBBY ORR whose Woolf Associates "is one of
the most aggressive" in signing teen talent." Maple Leafs
President KEN DRYDEN: "I don't think it is any good for the
kids because I think what happens is you start to imagine
you are farther ahead than you are" (CP/EDM. JOURNAL, 3/23).
