T'Wolves F KEVIN GARNETT "has split" from agent ERIC
FLEISHER (Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 8/18)....The Univ. of TN
football team, last year's national champion, visited the
White House yesterday and presented PRESIDENT CLINTON and VP
AL GORE with ceremonial UT jerseys. Coach PHIL FULMER
"mistakenly referred" to Gore as the President (TENNESSEAN,
8/18)....In Chicago, Carol Slezak profiles USFANS, a for-
profit consumer activist organization on pro sports. The
company has a staff of 17 and 12,000 members. USFans
President FRANK STADULIS says that he "expects the number of
members to surge to 100,000 within six months." He is also
"talking to Wall Street" about going public. Stadulis: "We
want to be the proactive arm for sports fans across the
country. ... We want every major sports town to have a
chapter to champion its local issues. We'll provide the
national backing" (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 8/18)....Pilot Pen
Tournament Dir ANNE WORCESTER, on "the preferred method" of
communicating with WTA Tour players: "All the players on the
tour carry computers. They all have e-mail" (HARTFORD
COURANT, 8/17)....ESPN's GARY MILLER talked with MARK
MCGWIRE about the net's "Y2K" promo, which feature McGwire
and conclude with ESPN's CHARLEY STEINER wearing face paint
and saying, "Follow me. Follow me to freedom." Miller:
"Would you follow Charley Steiner to freedom?" McGwire:
"No. Would you? A man like that?" Miller: "I don't know.
I guess if the world was ending." McGwire: "It depends
where the freedom is. He doesn't tell everybody where the
freedom's going" ("Up Close," ESPN, 8/17).
