LEAGUE NOTES

          In Miami, Rana Cash wrote that with its success, the
     LPGA Tour has "set the standard in some ways for other
     women's sports organizations.  But unlike the WNBA, the LPGA
     has excelled on its own, separate from the PGA Tour." LPGA
     Tour Commissioner Ty Votaw: "If the PGA Tour is Coca-Cola,
     and the Senior PGA Tour is Diet Coke, and the Buy.com Tour
     is caffeine free Coke, then the LPGA is Dr Pepper" (MIAMI
     HERALD, 1/13)....Beach Volleyball America Founder Charlie
     Jackson said the women's tour will stage seven events in its
     initial 2000 season.  The tour will have sponsors, but not
     one title sponsor, and all seven events will be on either
     ESPN2 or Fox Sports (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 1/13).