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          AFL: The AFL makes its debut in Kansas City, MO, when
     the FL Bobcats host the Nashville Kats in a regular-season
     game July 25 at Kemper Arena (AFL).  In K.C., Jonathan Rand
     reported that The Sports Group (TSG), a K.C.-based company
     trying to land an AFL team for '99, "is counting on
     attendance" at the game and a season-ticket drive to gauge
     K.C.'s interest in the league (K.C. STAR, 4/16).  
          VIVA PEDRO! In Boston, Charles Radin profiles Red Sox P
     Pedro Martinez in a front page story, "Embracing The Ace:
     Latino Community Rallies Around Martinez."  He writes that
     "Pedromania has grown to a fever pitch" and that within 48
     hours of Martinez' 2-hit shutout in his Fenway Park debut,
     the team sold 18,000 tickets for his next start tonight
     against the Indians (BOSTON GLOBE, 4/17)....Four Mets minor
     leaguers were "charged with sexual battery of a 17-year-old
     woman" in Port St. Lucie, FL.  Mets CEO Fred Wilpon: "If
     they are guilty, I assure you from the depths of my soul
     that this organization will do nothing to ask for any
     special dispensation because they are athletes.  If they are
     guilty, they should bear the burden of that guilt" (N.Y.
     TIMES, 4/17)....The Heat are opening up a new 4,000-square-
     foot team store, called HEAT, at Bayside Marketplace in
     Miami.  Features include computers linked to NBA.com; an
     American Airlines Arena info center; a video wall of NBA
     highlights; and a Ticketmaster outlet (MIAMI HERALD, 4/17). 

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