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LEAGUE NOTES

          NFL: Browns Owner Al Lerner will become a member of the
     NFL's Finance Committee, according to Patrick McManamon of
     the AKRON BEACON JOURNAL.  For Lerner, who once said he
     would remain in the background, it's a "significant morph."
     Browns President Carmen Policy: "I constantly paraded his
     talents in the area of finance and business.  What they're
     looking for is a member partner who is going to come in and
     help them run the business of the NFL" (AKRON BEACON
     JOURNAL, 5/23)....Agent Leigh Steinberg, in an ESPN.com chat
     about Saints RB Ricky Williams' contract: "To accept a
     contract with minimum salaries is extremely unusual.  And to
     create a structure which requires the player to be the best
     running back in the history of the NFL in order to achieve
     higher levels of compensation is unrealistic" (ESPN.com,
     5/21)....In Atlanta, Len Pasquarelli: "In signing the seven-
     year contract, Williams became a hero to owners and a bona
     fide member of the proletariat."  Agent Hadley Engelhard:
     "The truth is, it's a terrible deal.  As the fifth player
     taken in the draft, [Williams] is entitled to the fifth-best
     contract.  For him to collect all this money he's talked
     about, though, is unrealistic" (ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, 5/23). 
          NOTES: NBC & USA tennis analyst John McEnroe, asked
     whether he should be broadcasting more women's tennis:
     "Sometimes I think, should I be more involved in the women's
     game?  The fact that I'm even thinking about it is
     incredible.  In the [TV] ratings, the women have outdrawn
     the men at the last two U.S. Opens and Wimbledon.  Certainly
     in terms of personalities, there's no comparison" (USA
     TODAY, 5/24).  In St. Pete, Darrell Fry wrote the "men's
     game no longer is the main act.  The women, who get higher
     TV ratings and more media attention, are more popular."  But
     ATP Media Services Dir Joe Lynch told Fry, "People can say
     tennis is struggling, but then they see a $1.2 billion deal
     [with ISL], and then they say, `Maybe it's not struggling'"
     (ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, 5/23)....In Boston, Nick Cafardo
     wrote that the start-up International Football Federation is
     looking to place a franchise in Boston, but he wonders where
     an IFF team is "going to play home games?"  The IFF
     "supposedly has other commitments" from N.Y., Fort
     Lauderdale, Orlando, Orange County (CA), Toronto, Detroit,
     Cincinnati, Denver, and Chicago (BOSTON GLOBE, 5/23).
          

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