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          DECADE: ESPN2's Suzy Kolber profiled NFL Commissioner
     Paul Tagliabue on the 10-year anniversary of his hiring. 
     Kolber: "Under Tagliabue's guidance the NFL has grown in
     financial power and worldwide popularity. ... ABC and ESPN
     paid a record $9.2 billion to air the NFL in primetime
     through the year 2005, part of a four-network deal totalling
     over $17 billion. ... NFL paid attendance for the '98 season
     was the highest in league history. ... And perhaps, most
     significantly, the league has had labor peace over the last
     11 years" ("NFL 2Night," ESPN2, 10/26).
          CANADIAN ATTITUDES: In Toronto, James Christie cites an
     ROI Sports and Entertainment Research poll which states that
     one in five Canadian men "likes violence in sport."  The
     poll, which ROI Sports said was "paid for primarily" by NFL
     Int'l, is "part of a larger study" that includes 12,000
     respondents in 10 countries.  The poll also found that
     Australian men were second to Canada in their "taste for
     violence in sport."  A separate poll asked Canadians to name
     their favorite sport to follow in the news, attend or watch
     on TV.  No. 1: NHL; No 2: MLB; No. 3: figure skating; No. 4:
     golf; No. 5: NFL (Toronto GLOBE & MAIL, 10/27).
          CHANGES AT THE CFL? In Toronto, Perry Lefko reports
     that John Tory, who has been CFL Chair since '92, has
     recently "sounded as though" the end of his tenure is near. 
     Tory: "I'm sort of thinking more seriously than I was before
     about calling it a day.  Before when I was thinking about
     it, I was more readily persuadable than at this time." 
     Lefko notes that CFL President Jeff Giles is "considered a
     possible candidate" to succeed Tory (TORONTO SUN, 10/27).

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