In Denver, Jason Blevins wrote that readers of SKI
magazine voted VAIL, CO, as the "best resort in North
America" in the publication's "Top 60 Resort Guide." Vail
"beat out its arch-rival" WHISTLER/BLACKCOMB in BC, which
last year "knocked Vail from its longheld perch" at the top
of the list. Whistler/Blackcomb fell to third, behind UT's
DEER VALLEY (DENVER POST, 9/13)....In Dallas, Al Brumley
profiles KLIF-AM sports-talk host NORM HITZGES, who marked
his 25th year on radio in the city in August and "is being
honored with a roast" tonight. Hitzges "has made a career
out of being like someone you've never heard. He has seemed
to have more jobs -- at once -- than there are days in the
week" (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 9/14)....A bill to ban betting
on amateur sports was approved by the House Judiciary
Committee yesterday, but House GOP Conference Chair J.C.
WATTS (R-OK) said that he "still does not think the bill
will get passed this year" (Mult., 9/13)....DENNIS RODMAN
appeared on the "Tonight Show" wearing a RodmanTV T-shirt
and discussed his new Web site. On having cameras in his
house, except the bedroom: "Nothing happens in the bedroom.
Everything goes on downstairs. ... You got the Dagger Room.
A lot of stabbing going on in there" (NBC, 9/13).
