HOW WILL HOLMGREN'S EXIT AFFECT NFL COMPETITION COMMITTEE?

          The NFL "has a huge hole to fill on its important rules
     making body now that" Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren "has
     unexpectedly resigned from the league's competition
     committee," according to CNN/SI's Peter King.  King said,
     Holmgren "blamed his departure on his busy new schedule with
     the Seahawks.  But there's another reason -- one that
     Holmgren didn't include in his resignation letter. The work
     of the competition [committee] was getting increasingly
     shorter shrift at NFL meetings, and this year, the committee
     addressed ownership for just thirty minutes.  Holmgren felt
     he was spinning his wheels on issues the owners didn't
     really care about" ("Sports Tonight," CNN/SI, 8/19).