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NAMES IN THE NEWS

          DAILY VARIETY's Army Archerd writes that LEIGH
     STEINBERG is "angling to acquire a showbiz management
     agency" (DAILY VARIETY, 3/31)....24 Hour Fitness, a company
     that owns and operates fitness clubs, has joined with MAGIC
     JOHNSON to launch "Magic Clubs," a set of fitness centers
     that will be located in inner city communities (24 Hour
     Fitness)....An attorney for agent ANDY MILLER said that he
     has "contacted law enforcement authorities" in TN and FL to
     "assure them that Miller intended to comply with state laws
     governing agents."  Miller has been accused of breaking
     state laws in TN and FL by "repeatedly contacting" college
     basketball players "without registering as an agent in those
     states" (N.Y. TIMES, 3/31)....ESPN's Bob Stevens reported
     that KRISTEN HELGASON of GA "has one thing in common with a
     lot of us NCAA bracket builders.  She had Tulsa, Tennessee,
     Iowa State and Seton Hall all losing in the first round. 
     But she's also the one, the only one of 590,000 entrants in
     ESPN.com's Tournament Challenge, to have the Final Four,
     including her Florida Gators, Michigan State and the two
     eight seeds, Wisconsin and Carolina" (ESPN, 3/30).

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