Tournament Players Association (TPA) Founder Danny
Edwards "confirmed" that Greg Norman "has expressed his
intention to join" the TPA. Norman recently met at The
Players Championship with Tom Lehman and Boston attorney and
TPA "point man" Dennis Coleman (GOLFWEEK, 6/18)....In L.A.,
Grahame Jones reported that the 2002 World Cup will "start a
day earlier than planned," with the opener scheduled for May
31 in South Korea. Meanwhile, FIFA "has set" ticket prices
ranging from $60-150 for a first-round game to $300-750 for
the championship. At the '94 World Cup in the U.S., tickets
ranged from $25 to $475 (L.A. TIMES, 6/18)....In St. Louis,
Tom Timmermann wondered that when women's soccer "becomes an
everyday event, when fans have to decide to go to the
stadium to watch Philadelphia play Boston rather than the
United States vs. China, will anyone go?" WUSA acting
President Lee Berke: "Women's soccer is in the process of
transforming itself into a viable business. ... Obviously,
our business plan is not based on the peak. It's very
conservative. We're looking at 6,500, 7,000 fans per game
and we're looking at modest TV ratings" (ST. LOUIS POST-
DISPATCH, 6/18)....WNBA President Val Ackerman, on the
league's expansion efforts and decision not to expand beyond
16 teams next season: "I think it's the right pace. The
expansion, in effect, has been the result of striking while
the iron is hot. ... I think we're in a very good position,
but because it has been rapid, that's why we're not
expanding next year" (Ft. Lauderdale SUN-SENTINEL, 6/18).
