Reds Managing Exec John Allen, on the upcoming
referendum on the site for the team's proposed new ballpark:
"We feel as a tenant we should have some say on where we're
going to locate our business. Before we even play one game
there, we're paying $30 million (toward construction)."
More Allen: "It's a two-way street. Yes, we're being helped
with the stadium. But we pay earnings taxes. We pay
admissions taxes. We give something back" (CINCINNATI
ENQUIRER, 9/24)....In Denver, Mark Kiszla on Broncos Owner
Pat Bowlen's effort to get a new publicly-funded stadium:
"He has been very reluctant to open his books and
demonstrate the real financial need for us to pick up the
vast majority of costs of a facility guaranteed to
dramatically improve his own personal worth. Love might be
blind. But it need not be stupid" (DENVER POST, 9/24)....In
Boston, Nick Cafardo writes that if RI Gov. Lincoln Almond
is re-elected, the Patriots "will be wooed again by
Providence." Those "involved in the state's politics" say
that Almond would present Patriots Owner Robert Kraft with
the same deal he rejected last year, which would have
taxpayers pay $100M of $250M to build a new, open air,
70,000-seat stadium (BOSTON GLOBE, 9/24)....The Saddledome
has implemented a "non-smoking policy" (CALGARY SUN, 9/24).
