The expansion NHL Wild sold out their regular-season
home opener October 11 against the Flyers in two minutes
Saturday. Wild VP/Communications & Broadcasting Bill
Robertson said that about 40,000 total single-game tickets
were sold (ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS, 9/17). A limited number
of tickets "are still available" for the remaining 40 home
games (BLOOMBERG NEWS, 9/17)....In Charlotte, David Scott
reported on Winston-Salem's "plans to privately" fund a
22,500-seat soccer-specific stadium in a bid to land an MLS
franchise. About $100,000 has been raised from community
contributions "to continue the effort" (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER,
9/16)....In St. Paul, Charley Walters wrote that Vikings
Owner Red McCombs "passed on first rights" to purchase an
AFL team for the Target Center this spring, so "look for a
local group to complete" a $5M purchase soon (ST. PAUL
PIONEER PRESS, 9/17)....Due to Hurricane Gordon, the crowd
of 45,653 for yesterday's Bengals-Jaguars game at Alltel
Stadium "was the smallest" in Jaguars history (ORLANDO
SENTINEL, 9/18)....Fox's Jimmy Kimmel, on the NFL expansion
franchise in Houston being named the Texans: "When I hear
Texans, I think of people being electrocuted and ZZ Top"
("Fox NFL Sunday," Fox, 9/17).
