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NAMES IN THE NEWS

          DON KING was a surprise guest on the "Late Show" Monday
     night.  While being interviewed by DAVID LETTERMAN, NORM
     MCDONALD said that King was his new "manager" and brought
     the boxing promoter on stage to promote "The Norm Show" on
     ABC.  Letterman to King: "Don, shouldn't you be out fixing
     fights?"  McDonald, on his new show: "It's going to be
     tough.  We have stiff, stiff competition here on CBS." 
     Letterman: "Oh yeah?  Who do you have?"  King: "You don't
     have any competition!"  McDonald: "Don, we're up against '60
     Minutes II.'"  King: "'60 Minutes who?'" (CBS, 3/22).
          OTHER NAMES: PGA Tour Commissioner TIM FINCHEM was "so
     impressed" with ARNOLD PALMER's autobiography, "A GOLFER'S
     LIFE," he "contacted the publisher and ordered a copy for
     every" PGA, Senior PGA and Nike Tour member (Geoff Russell,
     GOLF WORLD, 3/19 issue)....RICK MAJERUS is no longer a
     candidate for NOTRE DAME's men's basketball coaching post
     after a "shocking rejection" by ND's "leadership" based on
     excerpts from Majerus' book, "My Life On A Napkin."  Majerus
     wrote that it would "be hypocritical for him to discipline
     an athlete for academic fraud because of the cheating he had
     done as a student at Marquette" (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 3/24)...In
     N.Y., Paul Tharp reports that Mets co-Owner FRED WILPON
     "struck out on Wall Street" yesterday, after his biotech
     company PathoGenesis Corp. "crashed" following management's
     announcement that they posted a "significant loss this
     quarter."  Wilpon lost about $19M "on his personal stake in
     the company" (N.Y. POST, 3/24)....The N.Y. State Senate
     committed $835,000 yesterday to improvements at the NATIONAL
     BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM in Cooperstown (Albany
     TIMES UNION, 3/24)....ESPN's John Clayton reported that the
     "next installment" for Bills QB DOUG FLUTIE "is a movie." 
     Clayton: "Flutie agreed to a contract this week that will
     allow CBS to produce the 'Doug Flutie Movie' for the
     television or the big screen.  The upfront payment for the
     movie rights is close to the $6 million he just received
     from the Bills as a signing bonus" (ESPN, 3/24)....MAGIC
     JOHNSON will refurbish the historic Loews Kings theater on
     Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn.  The $30M project will
     transform the movie house into a 12-screen multiplex and is
     expected to be completed by 2001 (N.Y. TIMES, 3/24).
     

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