FACILITY NOTES

          Officials from the Giants, Jets, MetroStars and NJ
     Sports & Exposition Authority "believe it is likely Giants
     Stadium will be a grass-only facility by next football
     season."  Part of the decision "will involve who pays an
     estimated" $3.5-4M for the conversion (N.Y. TIMES, 11/29). 
     ....A CHARLOTTE OBSERVER editorial addressed public
     financing of a new Hornets arena: "Certainly a team is of
     some value to the entire community.  But Charlotte is doing
     without pro basketball right now, and a goodly number of
     citizens feel no deprivation at all.  The question is not
     whether a new arena is good for the Hornets and their fans,
     but whether it is good for the city. ... We think it can be,
     if the cost to taxpayers and the overall usefulness of the
     facility for the city are right" (CHAR. OBSERVER, 11/29).