NBA: In DC, Steve Wyche reports that the NBA has added
androstenedione and eight other "performance-enhancing
substances to its list of banned substances." But the NBPA
filed a grievance with arbitrator Roger Kaplan, "challenging
the list's inclusion of andro and DHEA, a steroid hormone"
(WASHINGTON POST, 3/31)....NCAA President Cedric Dempsey, on
the possible impact of the NBA's proposed developmental
league: "It might result in more student-athletes coming to
school for the reason we have intercollegiate sports.
That's to get an education" (WASHINGTON POST, 3/31).
TENNIS: TENNIS WEEK's Steve Flink reports that at its
November '99 board meeting, the USTA "forecast more than"
$500,000 in excess revenue over expenses in '99. Flink:
"That educated guess was way off the mark. In the end, the
USTA took a $10.6 million loss." Flink adds that the USTA
"has appointed a committee" of board members consisting of
Michael Kohlhoff, Michael Ainslie, Frank Johnson and Alan
Schwartz, "to investigate" the $10.6M loss (TW, 3/30).
....John McEnroe, on leadership in tennis today: "There's a
lot of weak people surrounding the sport of tennis, and
there's a lot of people looking to protect their jobs and a
lot of people that don't have any vision" (FSN, 3/30).
MLS: ESPN.com's Jamie Trecker wondered why MLS didn't
do more to promote the MetroStars-Fusion game March 26 which
featured the debut of MetroStars MF Lothar Matthaeus: "Where
were the MLS paid-for ads on network TV trumpeting the
game?" Trecker also wrote on the pending lawsuit brought
by ten MLS players challenging MLS' single-entity structure:
"If the league wins, the players keep getting screwed. ...
If the players win, then the league is likely to pull up and
go home." Trecker added of MLS, "This league is getting
harder and harder to find on the radar by the minute, and
yet the same decision-makers are in place" (ESPN.com, 3/30).
