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          The NFL Oilers, 9,400 tickets short of a sellout for
     this Sunday's game against the Bengals, will be giving away
     7,500 Beanie Babies.  Oilers Exec VP/Marketing Don
     MacLachlan said that the promotion "was more of a reward to
     season-ticket holders than a major bid to fill seats" (N.Y.
     TIMES, 10/16).  Also in Nashville, the Oilers are "not close
     to selling out" its four remaining home dates, except for
     the November 15 game vs. the Steelers (Nashville TENNESSEAN,
     10/15)....In Pittsburgh, Ron Cook writes on the Penguins
     situation and wonders how NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman
     "could stand by this summer as the Baldwin-Marino feud ...
     embarrassed the league?"  Cook: "And how could Bettman allow
     Baldwin and Marino to file for bankruptcy without making
     them forfeit the team?"  Bettman "showed the NHL is too weak
     to help one of its struggling members."  Cook: "As long as
     Baldwin and Marino are the owners, the Penguins aren't worth
     having anyway" (PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, 10/16)....The
     Hurricanes drew 5,531 to the Greensboro Coliseum for their
     2-2 tie against the Stars last night.  Capacity of the arena
     is 11,059 (Greensboro NEWS & RECORD, 10/16)....49ers Interim
     President Larry Thrailkill said that the team's Exec VP
     Dwight Clark will not leave the 49ers before the end of the
     season.  Clark "has been pressing the 49ers to clarify his
     future" and met with Browns President Carmen Policy last
     week (Tony Grossi, Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, 10/16).

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