Saturday's OH STATE UNIV.-UNIV. OF MI football game set
an NCAA single-game attendance record, as 111,575 fans
attended at Ann Arbor. The Univ. of MI's six-game home
schedule drew 666,049 for an NCAA-record average of 111,008
(DETROIT NEWS, 11/21)....PAUL ALLEN's Vulcan Ventures has
purchased a 64% stake in ZDTV, the cable channel devoted to
computers and the Internet, for $204.8M. The purchase
brings Vulcan's total stake into ZDTV to 97% and gives Allen
operating "control" of the channel (Mult., 11/19)....The
N.Y. POST's "Page Six" cited a source "close" to ANNA
KOURNIKOVA as saying that Sunday's POV magazine party, which
honored Kournikova's upcoming cover issue, had "more to do
with meeting eligible men than the launch of her Web site."
The source: "Only athletes, actors and models need apply"
(N.Y. POST, 11/21)....In N.Y., Bob Herbert writes an Op-Ed
in today's N.Y. TIMES on Yankees Owner GEORGE STEINBRENNER
and writes that Steinbrenner is "turning into a class act,
and an emotional one at that. ... His eyes are on his
legacy" (N.Y. TIMES, 11/22)....Thirteen NBA players and two
WNBA players will each partner with a fan from his/her
team's city on this week's "WHEEL OF FORTUNE" (Wheel Of
Fortune). Hawks C DIKEMBE MUTOMBO, on visiting the game
show's studios in CA: "It looks big on TV but it was very
small" (ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, 11/21)....A "60 Minutes"
official said that there is a "50-50" chance the show's
previously scheduled profile of Jets coach BILL PARCELLS
"will still run, but its fate will have a lot to do with how
successful the Jets are down the stretch" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS,
11/21)....In San Antonio, Emily Spicer profiled Spurs co-
Owner JULIANNA HAWN HOLT. Her husband and team co-Owner,
PETER HOLT: "She has a lot of influence in everything with
the Spurs" (S. A. EXPRESS-NEWS, 11/20)....MARY JOE FERNANDEZ
appeared on CNNfn's "In the Money" and spoke on her CHARLES
SCHWAB ads and her personal investments. Fernandez, on the
ad: "I get stopped all the time ... [by people] saying, 'I
love your portfolio.'" IBM, Microsoft, Nike and Coca-Cola
are among Fernandez's holdings (CNNfn, 11/19).
