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          TV MONITOR: Last night's 11:00pm ET edition of ESPN's
     "SportsCenter" led with Red Sox-Orioles followed by Yankees-
     Devil Rays.  CNN/SI's "Sports Tonight" led with the "Austin
     Powers" promo at the SkyDome, which was the lead into
     Indians-Blue Jays.  Red Sox-Orioles followed.  "Fox Sports
     News Primetime" (Fox Sports Net South) led with the Cubs-
     Rockies, followed by the Reds-Astros (THE DAILY).
          X MARKS THE SPOT: ESPN's X Games get underway in S.F.
     today and Yumi Wilson wrote that ESPN "expects about 200,000
     people to come" to S.F. during the event's next 10 days. 
     Last year's games, held in San Diego, generated $32M and the
     event drew 230,000 people.  Wilson noted that ESPN "gave its
     national corporate sponsors exclusive rights to hang their
     logos and banners at the games.  As a result, few local
     businesses were interested in fronting cash for an event at
     which they will get little or no on-air exposure."  City
     officials "feared the city would have to tap taxpayer funds
     to pay" for event control, but several local businesses and
     individual donors were "finally persuaded" to come forward
     with a total of "nearly" $700,000 (S.F. CHRONICLE, 6/24). 
     In St. Pete, Ernest Hooper writes ESPN's X Games "is never
     going to be on the same par with a major sport, but there is
     an audience" (ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, 6/25).
          MATCH POINT: HBO has informed Wimbledon officials it is
     "pulling out" of televising duties for Wimbledon after this
     year's event, according to Rudy Martzke of USA TODAY.  HBO,
     which has televised the event for 25 years, has seen weekday
     daytime ratings drop to a 1.6 in '97 before "improving to
     1.9 last year when more women's matches were carried."  Fox
     Sports Group President David Hill and ESPN VP/Communications
     Chris La Placa have "expressed interest" in the event.  USA
     Network, which carries the French and U.S. Opens, "figures
     to be interested, although" Exec Producer Gordon Beck
     "declined comment" (USA TODAY, 6/25).  
          MORE NOTES: Guest appearances on HBO's next "ARLI$$"
     (Sunday, 9:30pm ET) include: Falcons RB Jamal Anderson,
     boxing promoter Bob Arum, boxing analyst Al Bernstein and
     boxers Oscar De La Hoya and Prince Naseem Hamed.  The
     episode will replay on Tuesday (6/29) at 11:30pm ET,
     Wednesday (6/30) at 8:00pm ET and Friday (7/2) at midnight
     (THE DAILY)....In Miami, Barry Jackson cites NBC Sports
     Chair Dick Ebersol as saying that he "fully expects Marv
     Albert will work again for NBC someday."  But Ebersol added
     that "he's committed to lead announcer Bob Costas and No. 2
     announcer Tom Hammond."  Ebersol also said that the proposed
     NBC-Turner football league "is not definite but 'better than
     50-50'" (MIAMI HERALD, 6/25)....In Long Beach, Bob Keisser,
     on last weekend's WWC match on ABC earning a 2.2 Nielsen
     rating: "It was beaten by other sports, but a 2.2 isn't bad
     considering NHL ratings on Fox" (PRESS-TELEGRAM, 6/25).

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