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          Shares in Clear Channel Communications dropped from     $56.50 on September 29 to $45.88 last week, and Vikings     Owner RED MCCOMBS estimated his stock loss last week in the     company between $700-800M (ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS, 10/8).     ...Grizzlies Owner MICHAEL HEISLEY "is waffling" over a     report that he will sing "O Canada" before the team's home     opener October 31.  Heisley: "I'm not a Canadian.  I was     thinking of doing it to express my appreciation for the way     people in Vancouver have treated me but I don't want to     insult anybody.  And that's what worries me.  I don't think     I've got that great a voice.  I think I can sing a little     bit" (Vancouver PROVINCE, 10/8). ...Producer PIERRE COSSETTE     is "reaching out" to BOOMER ESIASON about having the former     NFL QB play JESSE VENTURA in a Broadway musical (N.Y. DAILY     NEWS, 10/10)....Knicks season-ticket holder WOODY ALLEN     wrote a piece in support of former Knicks C PATRICK EWING in     Sunday's N.Y. TIMES: "That he gave everything in practice     and on the court was all anyone could expect.  That he     refused to be as user-friendly off the court should not have     mattered in any assessment of his huge contribution. ...     There's a deeper value in teams keeping certain players for     life ... There's more to sports than the big money and not     even winning is so precious" (N.Y. TIMES, 10/8)....The N.Y.     TIMES' Fabrikant & Landler reported on possible succession     of News Corp. Chair RUPERT MURDOCH.  Murdoch's younger son     JAMES "has had an increasingly visible role" in the company,     "raising the specter of competition between [him and his     older brother LACHLAN] over who will ultimately prove better     qualified to run the company" (N.Y. TIMES, 10/8). 

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