TIME IS ON OUR SIDE, YES IT IS: SKYDOME BUYS TIME ON BID

          SkyDome has "requested more time to consider" the
     C$100M offer from Sportsco to buy the stadium, according to
     Grange & MacDonald of the Toronto GLOBE & MAIL.  Sportsco
     had set a deadline of yesterday at 5:00pm ET, but the delay
     has been extended until next Tuesday. One source said that
     "it was expected" that Interbrew SA, owners of 48% of
     SkyDome and 90% of the Blue Jays, would "make a proposal to
     buy the facility."  But "other names that surfaced" as
     potential buyers of SkyDome were Baton Broadcasting and
     Delaware North (Toronto GLOBE & MAIL, 12/11).  
          LABATT CALLS MOVE TALK UGLY RUMORS: In Toronto, Rutsey
     & Elliott write that industry sources said that Labatt "had
     commissioned a poll asking if its beer sales would be
     affected" if the Blue Jays moved from Toronto.  But Labatt
     spokesperson Terry Zuk said, "That is 100% not true.  I
     heard there was a rumour going around to that effect but I
     can tell you that it is not true at all" (TOR. SUN, 12/11).