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OVITZ AND BROAD INCH CLOSER TO DEAL TO PRESENT TO NFL OWNERS

          The rival groups led by Michael Ovitz and Eli Broad
     vying for an NFL expansion team in L.A. "moved toward their
     goal" Wednesday by meeting with NFL execs and CA Gov. Gray
     Davis rep Bill Chadwick, according to Todd Harmonson of the
     ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER.  The meeting showcased "preliminary
     drawings" of a renovated L.A. Coliseum which they hope to
     present to league owners in Chicago on July 28.  NHL Kings
     co-Owner and Broad partner Ed Roski: "I think it was a very
     productive meeting.  We've come up with some very good
     ideas, and now we're putting them down on paper.  Hopefully
     we'll have something solid to take to the owners."  NFL
     VP/Communications Greg Aiello: "The groups are coming
     together for a site development plan and a stadium design
     and seem to be moving forward."  Though few details have
     been revealed about the latest plan for the Coliseum, Roski
     "called the concept a compromise between the idea he and
     Broad presented to league owners in Atlanta in May and the
     one" Ovitz submitted.  But instead of covering all the
     parking garages with a "park-like setting" in the Ovitz
     plan, only the main garage now would be topped with grass,
     trees and playing fields (O.C. REGISTER, 7/15).  In L.A.,
     Steve Dilbeck reports that the Broad and Ovitz groups will
     announce July 23 that they have OK'd a compromise plan. 
     Dilbeck notes the stadium's design "more closely" resembles
     that presented in the Ovitz plan (L.A. DAILY NEWS, 7/16).

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