NAMES IN THE NEWS

          ESPN/ABC's ROBIN ROBERTS will be the keynote speaker at
     the Int'l Hotel/Motel and Restaurant Show today at the Jacob
     Javits Center in N.Y. (ESPN)....The EVANDER HOLYFIELD-LENNOX
     LEWIS fight will take place March 13 at MSG.  GREG FRITZ, an
     assistant to DON KING, said, "We've struck a verbal
     agreement with Madison Square Garden, and they're planning
     on holding a press conference on Nov. 23" (TORONTO STAR,
     11/10)....Boston lawyer LYMAN BULLARD, who has been involved
     in "some of the largest sports financing deals of the
     decade," is profiled by Gregg Krupa of the BOSTON GLOBE, who
     calls Bullard "one of the top sports lawyers in the country"
     (BOSTON GLOBE, 11/10)...FIFA President SEPP BLATTER
     "repeated his belief that Africa should stage the World Cup
     in 2006."  Blatter also said that the joint staging of the
     2002 Cup by Japan and South Korea "was a mistake."  Blatter:
     "It's not something to be repeated" (N.Y. TIMES, 11/10).