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          Reebok CEO PAUL FIREMAN is featured in a FORTUNE story
     titled, "CEOs In Denial."  FORTUNE's Patricia Sellers calls
     Fireman a "boastful" salesman who has "major credibility
     problems with investors.  [He's] held on thanks to cronies
     and unwavering supporters on [his board]" (FORTUNE, 6/21
     issue)....Starzz coach FRANK LAYDEN is "intent on making" his
     players "better, more well-rounded adults and providing them
     with a family atmosphere."  He has started a book club with
     the players and plans on taking them to "various cultural
     events."  He recently cancelled practice to take them to see
     "The Phantom Menace" and arranged for them to see singer
     Sarah Brightman.  Layden: "I'm just looking for ways to make
     them curious about something and maybe they'll find a new
     hobby" (SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, 6/16)....Amid reports that Univ.
     of RI F LAMAR ODOM is rethinking his decision to become
     eligible for the NBA Draft, his N.Y.-based agent JEFF KLEIN
     told the SportsBusiness Journal's Josh Gotthelf that he
     resigned yesterday morning as Odom's rep (THE DAILY)....76ers
     President PAT CROCE and team physician JACK MCPHILEMY will
     leave from Ocean City, NJ, tomorrow on a motorcycle trip to
     CA.  Croce, on the journey: "Ocean to ocean, that's what
     we're calling it" (PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS, 6/16)....Actress
     ASHLEY JUDD "showed up ... hand in hand" with CART driver
     DARIO FRANCHITTI at her sister WY's "Kmart show" in TN
     (Nashville TENNESSEAN, 6/16)....On last night's "Fox Sports
     News Primetime," Jeanne Zelasko reported that EARL WOODS is
     quoted in the June issue of ICON magazine saying Scotland is
     for "white people. ... People had better be happy the Scots
     live there instead of these soul brothers.  The game of golf
     would have never been invented" ("FSNP," 6/15).   Woods said,
     "I absolutely, unequivocally, flat-out deny having ever said
     that to anybody.  It's false" (OAKLAND TRIBUNE, 6/16).

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