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NAMES IN THE NEWS

          Former ACOG VP/Marketing DARBY COKER died Friday at the
     age of 54.  In Atlanta, Erin Behan writes that Coker was
     "most famous for his advertising ideas" at IBM and his
     "marketing plans" while at ACOG (ATLANTA CONSTITUTION,
     6/19)....In Pittsburgh, Joe Starkey wrote on the hockey
     agent business and called it "vicious."  Pittsburgh-based
     agent STEVE REICH said that it "has reached the point where
     there are more agents" than players.  Starkey: "The
     seduction begins early.  Scholastic players, barely old
     enough to shave, are besieged by a bunch of Jerry Maguires
     looking to make a name and a buck.  Some agents and their
     scouts arrive with promises of cars, money and imminent
     fame" (Pittsburgh TRIBUNE-REVIEW, 6/18)....Agent DREW
     ROSENHAUS, on loyalty in sports: "There's so much pressure
     in sports now.  It is so much of a business and
     entertainment in business that the teams are under pressure
     ... because of economics" ("Outside The Lines," ESPN,
     6/18)....In Phoenix, Jeff Barker wonders why D'Backs
     Managing General Partner JERRY COLANGELO, a registered
     Republican, would "agree to host" a national Democratic
     fund-raising lunch Thursday featuring PRESIDENT CLINTON 
     Barker: "The answer is that politics and baseball are
     different.  In the upper strata of political contributors
     it's OK to play for one team and pinch-hit for another." 
     Colangelo said that he's as "solidly Republican as ever" (AZ
     REPUBLIC, 6/19)....FSN's KEITH OLBERMANN, on his mother
     MARIE being hit by an errant throw by Yankees 2B CHUCK
     KNOBLAUCH Saturday at Yankee Stadium: "Mom's been going to
     Yankee games so long, she met BABE RUTH as an infant, she's
     survived Yankee second basemen ranging from HORACE CLARK to
     STEVE SAX to improbably enough, JIM LEYRITZ and DON
     MATTINGLY, but Knoblauch found her in the stands.  She's
     bruised, she doesn't like her picture on the cover of the
     New York Daily News, but otherwise, she's OK" (FSN,
     6/18)....Vikings coach DENNIS GREEN "plans to start" a stock
     car team next year, and he "probably will begin fielding" a
     car in the ARCA series (AP, 6/18).

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