EVENTS & ATTRACTION NOTES

          X GAMES: In four days of X Games competition, 140,000
     people have visited the Games' venues, "contributing to
     massive traffic congestion" in the downtown S.F. area. 
     Monday's attendance "was expected to be about 30,000" (USA
     TODAY, 6/29).  In S.F., Emil Guillermo wrote that "it's just
     hard to imagine anything more contrived than the X Games." 
     Guillermo: "The X Games are to sport what the Monkees were
     to real music" (S.F. EXAMINER, 6/27).  In Pittsburgh, Bill
     Modoono wrote that the X Games "are a joke."  More Modoono,
     on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC providing 30 hours of X Games
     coverage: "TV exposure used to be a yard stick sports
     writers could use to determine the importance of sports. 
     Now, who knows?" (Pittsburgh TRIBUNE-REVIEW, 6/27).