LEAGUE NOTES

          In Newark, Yi-Wyn Yen profiles the Tour Players
     Association, and writes that the four-month-old group of
     touring pros is "trying to get the PGA to open up its books
     and cut players in for a bigger piece of the action."  Yen:
     "Room for the TPA's growth or demise is more an issue of
     player participation than any PGA Tour plans to squash
     them."  Yen adds that the TPA needs the backing of
     "heavyweights" such as Tiger Woods and David Duval "in order
     to grow" (STAR-LEDGER, 12/18)....In Orlando, NFL Europe
     President Oliver Luck announced that the six-team league
     will hold training camps for the '99 season at six sites
     around Orlando (ORLANDO SENTINEL, 12/18)....Board game
     inventor Robert Poole will challenge local football referees
     at the Official All Star Cafe today in N.Y., to promote his
     new "Rules of the Game" (All Star Cafe).