TOGETHER AGAIN ... OVITZ, BROAD WORKING ON STADIUM PLAN

          L.A. bid group leaders Eli Broad and Michael Ovitz
     "appear to have put aside their differences ... and have
     begun working together with [NFL] officials to develop a
     unified stadium and financing plan" to bring an expansion
     team to the city, according to Liz Mullen of the
     SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL.  While Broad and Ovitz worked
     together last week on a joint bid, "another effort was under
     way to develop economic impact reports for the proposed
     football team to potentially bolster the case for public
     financing for a renovated" L.A. Coliseum.  Meanwhile, CA
     Gov. Gray Davis has hired real estate investment banker Bill
     Chadwick to "oversee" the bid process "and look out for the
     interest of the state," which owns the land around the
     Coliseum.  Chadwick has named consulting firms Keyser
     Marston Associates, Recon Research Corp. and A.G. Edwards &
     Sons "to prepare reports on the potential economic benefits"
     an expansion team would bring the city (SPORTSBUSINESS
     JOURNAL, 7/5 issue).  Broad, on tension with Ovitz: "There's
     absolutely no friction between myself, Ed Roski, Michael
     Ovitz, Ron Burkle or the NFL" (L.A. TIMES, 7/5).
          ELI SPEAKS OUT: Broad writes an Op-Ed in the
     SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL and calls for L.A. to "stop bashing"
     the league and "get its act together."  Broad writes that a
     new team in L.A. "will provide a significant boost" to the
     city, county and state "by generating additional tax
     revenue" and help bring future Super Bowls to the Coliseum. 
     Broad: "Time is growing short.  If we are to meet the NFL's
     September deadline [for a financing plan] ... our entire
     community must rally around a plan that meets the NFL
     halfway" (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 7/5 issue).