NFL BE WARN-ER-ED: TRAVIS SAYS BOOK TAKES SHOTS AT LEAGUE

          Warner Books "is preparing to publish a damning
     indictment of the NFL," according to Neal Travis of the N.Y.
     POST.  Travis reports that Warner Books "officially has an
     embargo on any publicity for their fall release of 'Pros and
     Cons: The Criminals Who Play in the NFL' -- evidently to
     avoid pre-publication protests from the league."  Travis
     calls the book, written by Jeff Benedict and Don Yaeger,
     "the NFL's worst nightmare: a documentation of how the
     nation's most popular sport ignores the criminal
     transgressions of some of its most illustrious stars," and
     says that the book will be "a major embarrassment" to the
     NFL.  Benedict wrote "Public Heroes, Private Felons" about
     crime and sports, while Yaeger authored "Under the Tarnished
     Dome," an expose of Notre Dame football (N.Y. POST, 5/13).