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MEDIA NOTES

          TV MONITOR: Last night's 10:00pm ET 60-minute edition
     of FSN's "The National Sports Report" led with IN Univ. (IU)
     suspending and fining men's basketball coach Bobby Knight,
     followed by jury selection in the trial of Ravens LB Ray
     Lewis.  "TNSR" reported on 76ers-Pacers at 12:16 into its
     broadcast and Avalanche-Stars at 13:33.  "TNSR" had 11:20 of
     IU/Knight coverage, 8:10 of NBA coverage and 5:15 of NHL
     coverage.  Last night's 11:00pm ET 30-minute edition of
     CNN/SI's "Sports Tonight" and the 11:00pm ET 60-minute
     edition of ESPN's "SportsCenter" both led with IU and
     Knight, followed by 76ers-Pacers.  "Sports Tonight" reported
     on Avalanche-Stars at 14:00, and "SportsCenter" at 16:18. 
     "Sports Tonight" had 8:51 of IU/Knight coverage, 2:38 of NBA
     coverage and 1:25 of NHL coverage.  "SportsCenter" had 18:35
     of IU/Knight coverage, 5:59 of NBA coverage and 3:50 of NHL
     coverage.  Note: Monday's schedule had one NBA playoff game
     and one NHL playoff game (THE DAILY).
          MAXIMUM'S HARDDRIVE: As News Corp.'s Maximum Golf
     magazine launches this week, a "companion Web site" also
     debuts on FoxSports.com (USA TODAY, 5/16).  The
     SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL's Noah Liberman writes that the site
     will be FoxSports.com's official golf site, "combining
     magazine content with straight news coverage of the golf
     world. ... Much of the print edition will appear online
     during the course of each month, including expanded versions
     of some sections."  Meanwhile, the 148-page debut issue of
     Maximum Golf features "roughly" 50 ad pages and has a rate
     base of 300,000.  The publication is projecting a rate base
     of 350,000 by January 2001.  A four-color, single-page ad
     runs for $28,500 (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 5/15 issue).
          FREE ADVICE TO TURNER SPORTS: In AZ, Jim Gintonio
     writes that Turner's NBA reporter Cheryl Miller "shouldn't
     be anywhere near a microphone when brother Reggie and the
     Pacers are playing.  Besides being embarrassing to watch,
     it's a huge conflict of interest, something Turner Sports
     should have no trouble figuring out" (AZ REPUBLIC, 5/16).

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