RAVENS OR RAVERS? TEAM ENCOURAGES PRE-GAME PARTYING

          When the Ravens' new stadium opens, there will be more
     "tailgating than ever," as the team "will bring tailgating
     to" the fans, according to Eduardo Encina of the Baltimore
     SUN.  All of the 5,000 parking spaces controlled by the
     Ravens and the MD Stadium Authority will be "tailgating-
     accessible and will be open four hours before game time." 
     The cost of the spaces will be $15 per game and $150 for the
     season.  The team has also created a "specialized Tailgating
     Zone," with slightly more than 1,000 parking spaces, where
     stadium concessionaire Fine Host will serve food (SUN, 7/7).
          THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF RAVENS: In Baltimore, Jean
     Marbella reported that the Ravens sent 60 of their 2,000
     game-day personnel to the Disney Institute last weekend "to
     learn from the reputed happiest place in the world." 
     Offering both classroom instruction and tours of the "famed
     parks, the Disney seminars won raves from the Ravens staff
     even as they acknowledged that it might not always be
     possible to sprinkle Disney's 'pixie dust' on their own
     operations" (Jean Marbella, Baltimore SUN, 7/6).