NAMES IN THE NEWS

          AROUND THE RINGS reports that PRESIDENT CLINTON "will
     not be coming" to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, as he "will
     be involved in the campaigns of his wife" HILLARY and VP AL
     GORE (AROUND THE RINGS, 3/16)....A sticker seen in Sydney
     before the Olympic Games: "Keep taking your medication.  Our
     Olympic visitors must suspect nothing" (SYDNEY MORNING
     HERALD, 3/16)....CNNSI.com's Jon Wertheim wrote that "people
     couldn't believe their eyes" when Red Wings C SERGEI FEDOROV
     showed up at the WTA Tour State Farm tourney in Scottsdale
     recently with 20 dozen roses for ANNA KOURNIKOVA.  One "top"
     player, on Kournikova: "It's madness.  I'm not sure she
     knows who she wants [Fedorov or Pavel Bure].  But she sure
     knows what she wants: publicity" (CNNSI.com, 3/14)....BO
     JACKSON said his new company, JACKSON PRO MANAGEMENT, is
     meant to help athletes and people who "haven't gotten their
     financial portfolios in order" ("Up Close," ESPN, 3/15).