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          ESPN's Trey Wingo reported that the Pioneer League
     Butte (MT) Copper Kings will offer on July 7 "free admission
     to anyone from New York, anyone who's ridden the No. 7 train
     in New York, any young mother with children, anyone who has
     purple hair, anybody who doesn't speak English as their
     primary language or anyone who's a member of any other
     group" that Braves P John Rocker offended with his
     controversial comments to SI last December.  Residents of
     Rocker, MT, will also be given free admission.  Rocker "had
     no comment" on the promo (ESPN, 5/10)....MLB Commissioner
     Bud Selig has "ordered" Orioles Majority Owner Peter Angelos
     to pay former GM Frank Wren "approximately $350,000 to
     settle the final two years" of Wren's contract with the
     team.  Angelos suspended payments shortly after firing Wren
     last October even though Wren had two years remaining on a
     three-year, $1.35M contract (WASHINGTON POST, 5/11)....In
     Philadelphia, Ashley McGeachy writes that during last
     night's 76ers loss to the Pacers, disgruntled 76ers fans
     threw beer, soda and punch onto the court.  At one point,
     76ers coach Larry Brown "took the public-address announcer's
     microphone and implored the crowd to stop" (PHILA. INQUIRER,
     5/11).  In Philadelphia, John Smallwood, on the incident:
     "No question, [the city of Philadelphia] will be the butt of
     sarcastic remarks, bad jokes and comments of disgust from
     the amateur comics on TV sportscasts across the nation"
     (PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS, 5/11)....In Cincinnati, Neil
     Schmidt writes that individual-game ticket sales for the
     Bengals began yesterday and "calls to the ticket office were
     so brisk early that employees couldn't get an outside phone
     line" (CINCY ENQUIRER, 5/11).

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