LEAGUE NOTES

          In Nashville, Joe Biddle examined the "deep concern"
     about college basketball players turning pro early, and
     noted that "it was hailed as a great day" when Tiger Woods
     left Stanford after his sophomore year to join the PGA Tour. 
     Biddle: "For some reason, basketball players are expected to
     stay in school.  Make oodles of money for Big State U.  If
     they wreck a knee in the process and their pro career
     crashes around them, oh, well" (TENNESSEAN, 7/5)....Fusion
     Investor-Operator and MLS Expansion Committee Chair Ken
     Horowitz was in Rochester last Friday night for an A-league
     Rhinos game.  Horowitz: "Rochester has a good shot to be an
     expansion team.  I'm very confident."  The league "will
     likely expand" by two to 14 teams in 2001 (Rochester
     DEMOCRAT & CHRONICLE, 7/3)....The FINANCIAL TIMES' Patrick
     Harverson wrote on the European Commission's ruling that
     Formula One's TV contracts were illegal and profiled F-1 CEO
     Bernie Ecclestone.  Harverson, who noted that Ecclestone
     "has wriggled out of difficult situations before":
     "Ecclestone will launch a vigorous defence of his business
     deals, but it is likely to prove a frustrating and time-
     consuming experience" (FINANCIAL TIMES, 7/3)....WNBA
     President Val Ackerman "dazzled" the "predominantly female
     audience" at a recent meeting of "potential" season-ticket
     holders of Miami's new WNBA team.  Heat coach Pat Riley, on
     Ackerman: "When I am listening to her and watching her react
     to everything that has to do with the WNBA, it reminds me of
     what leadership is really about" (SUN-SENTINEL, 7/4).