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          NFL: In DC, Dan Daly notes Redskins Owner Daniel
     Snyder's decision to "start charging" TV stations to use the
     team's name and logo on NFL highlight shows: "Telling TV
     stations they have to change the names of their Redskins
     programs -- unless they ante up -- is silly, arrogant and
     greedy.  What's next, Dan?  Parking meters at Redskin Park? 
     Toll booths on the access roads to Redskins Stadium?"
     (WASHINGTON TIMES, 10/21)....In Houston, John McClain
     reports that 10,190 nickname "suggestions" have been posted
     on www.nfl2002.com, the Web site for Houston's expansion NFL
     franchise.  But he adds that team Owner Bob McNair's
     favorite is "Texans."  McClain adds that there have been
     more than 63,000 "requests" for non-binding season tickets. 
     McNair: "The next order of business is to sell suites.  We
     have to sell 75 by Jan. 15.  We expect to start selling them
     by Nov. 15" (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 10/21).
          NOTES: Senators holdout C Alexei Yashin, on the C$27.5M
     lawsuit filed against him and his agent Mark Gandler by fan
     Leonard Potechin: "I have nothing against the fans [of]
     Ottawa and I never have.  I have no problem with them.  They
     can do what they want to do" (OTTAWA SUN, 10/21).
     ...Hurricanes coach Paul Maurice, who said that the team's
     marketing department "found" that 90% of the fans at the
     Greensboro Coliseum last year were "commuting" from Raleigh:
     "It's always amazed me that that many people would make the
     trip.  It's a long ride, through lousy traffic and it's a
     terrible time of day when you've got to put your kids back
     in the car to get them home at 1:30 on a weeknight" (GLOBE &
     MAIL, 10/21)....FORBES' Mary Summers profiles D'Backs
     Managing General Partner Jerry Colangelo and notes the
     team's drop in attendance in its second season and Colangelo
     asking for an additional $24M "cash call" this season. 
     Colangelo: "It's too early in the fight for me to do
     anything but tell you where we are.  I don't know the end of
     the story."  More Colangelo: "I'm not in this for the money,
     personally."  FORBES' Summers: "That will be interesting
     news to his investors" (FORBES, 11/1)....Mavericks GM/coach
     Don Nelson, on almost inviting Percy "Master P" Miller to
     the team's training camp: "We thought about it ... and even
     had him in for a workout.  But we decided it would be
     impossible for him to make our team, so we didn't want to
     waste his time" (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 10/21).  

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