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          HOUSTON SALES: The "majority" of the 41,000 PSLs for
     Houston's NFL expansion franchise that went on sale
     Thanksgiving Day "are going to be sold by Christmas Day."
     With the commitments, team Owner Bob McNair said that the
     $50M in PSL revenues "obligated to go toward stadium
     construction is in the bank."  Additionally, the team has
     received 400 inquiries regarding the 166 luxury boxes, and a
     "dozen were locked up last week" (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 12/20).
          CHOICE SEATS: MSG has installed ChoiceSeat (CSI) video
     monitors "in luxury suites and on the backs of some club
     seats, becoming the first U.S. arena to offer that
     technology."  The SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL's Andy Bernstein
     calls the MSG installation CSI's "most ambitious to date,"
     as the system is "wired into all 88 luxury suites and two
     sections of club seats."  CSI says that by next season, all
     3,000 seats in MSG's "lowest seating tier will feature the
     screens" (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 12/20 issue).
          NOTES: In Charlotte, Tom Sorensen writes under the
     header, "Support New Arena?  Not on [Hornets Owner George]
     Shinn's Watch."  Sorensen: "If there were a referendum, the
     Hornets would have to win a championship, or come close,
     before they would even have a chance to get it passed. ... I
     care where my money goes.  And I'm here to tell you I don't
     want a dollar of it to go to George Shinn" (CHARLOTTE
     OBSERVER, 12/21)....WI Gov. Tommy Thompson "gave a positive
     review" yesterday to the Packers' efforts "to build support
     for public financing" of a new stadium or a renovated
     Lambeau Field.  Thompson: "[Packers President] Bob Harlan is
     certainly doing the correct thing by coming down and
     explaining his problems to members of the Legislature . ..
     and also to the press" (GREEN BAY PRESS-GAZETTE, 12/21).
     ....RDV Sports and FL-based Arena Entertainment are "putting
     a private club" in the Magic's old offices on Orlando
     Arena's ground floor for Magic, Miracle and Solar Bears
     season-ticket holders.  The club will be called Fuente Opus
     X Club & Business Center and the price of a one-year
     membership is $1,250 (ORLANDO SENTINEL, 12/20).

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