SEATTLE'S WNBA TEAM MOVES FORWARD DESPITE RENT INCREASE

          Officials for Seattle's WNBA team called the Seattle
     City Council's proposal to charge the team $20,000 a season
     to play at KeyArena "unethical and unfair," but said they
     will accept the new conditions and submit it for league
     approval, according to Holly Cain of the SEATTLE POST-
     INTELLIGENCER.  Seattle's Senior Dir of Operations Karen
     Bryant: "We don't know yet if this will be a deal-breaker
     for the WNBA.  We will obviously lobby the league to accept
     it."  The WNBA team "must pay" $100,000 to the city as part
     of its KeyArena lease before the season begins, but the team
     can "recoup" $80,000 of that money if it plays all its
     scheduled games at the arena (SEATTLE P-I, 10/13).  In
     Seattle, Blaine Newnham, on the city's action: "Good for
     them. ... Finally, the team, not the city, got the short end
     of the deal.  How many times in how many cities have we seen
     it go the other way?" (SEATTLE TIMES, 10/12).