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          GOLF: PGA of America CEO Jim Awtrey is profiled by
     GOLFWORLD's Ron Sirak, who writes that Awtrey "oversaw the
     drafting of a strategic plan that pushed" gross revenues
     from $16M in '89 to $103M in '98, a figure that "is expected
     to swell to more than" $160M in '99.  Sirak: "A decade after
     putting the bold strategic plan in place, Awtrey is one of
     the handful of people who run golf in the [U.S.]"
     (GOLFWORLD, 9/10 issue).  The PGA of America will hold its
     86th annual meeting in Philadelphia in November 2002.  Also,
     PGA VP Jack Connelly "is expected to ascend to the
     presidency in November 2000" (AP/PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER,
     9/16)....PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem "will grant" Greg
     Norman a medical exemption to "play in fewer than 15
     tournaments and not lose his PGA Tour card."  Finchem: "It's
     in our best interest to have him play" (GOLFWORLD, 9/10).
          BASKETBALL: USA TODAY's Erik Brady examines minor
     league basketball and reports that the upstart IBL will have
     salaries ranging from $20,000-100,000, with an average of
     about $50,000 (USA TODAY, 9/16). IBL VP/Basketball
     Operations George Blaney said that teams will have a
     $522,000 salary cap and "projects that teams will have to
     draw between 4,000 and 5,000 fans a game (at an average
     ticket price of just above $10) to make that work" (USA
     TODAY, 9/16).  IBL President Thaxter Trafton, on becoming
     part of an NBA farm system: "We do see that as a possibility
     down the road" (USA TODAY, 9/16). 
          MORE NOTES: ESPN.com's Chris Mortensen wondered why NFL
     Commissioner Paul Tagliabue "doesn't ... get involved" in
     Barry Sanders' dispute with the Lions.  Mortensen: "Can you
     imagine NBA Commissioner David Stern standing by idly if a
     similar case had transpired with Michael Jordan?" (ESPN.com,
     9/15)....In Toronto, Stephen Brunt wrote that the NHL "has
     survived" the lawsuits involving former NHLPA Founder Alan
     Eagleson "if not scot-free -- in a side issue, it did have
     to cough up the retired players' pension money -- at least
     considerably less scathed than it might have been."  NHL
     owners can "now concentrate fully on their strategy leading
     up" to the CBA's 2004 expiration date (GLOBE & MAIL, 9/15).
                                

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