WOOLF PARTNERSHIP OF PHILLY HOCKEY AGENT JUST A START?

          Boston-based Woolf Associates announced a partnership
     with Philadelphia-based NHL agent Rick Curran and his
     Representation Inc. this morning.  Among Curran's clients:
     Flyers RW Mark Recchi, Red Wings LW Brendan Shanahan and
     Rangers D Adam Graves.  Curran will continue to work in
     Philadelphia (Woolf).  The SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL's Liz
     Mullen writes that with the move, Woolf has "embarked on a
     new strategy of growth."  Woolf CEO Kevin Murphy: "It's fair
     to characterize this as the first of several moves to grow
     Woolf.  We don't aspire to be an IMG or an SFX or an
     Octagon.  But we will be bigger than we are now"
     (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 11/6).  In Toronto, Eric Duhatschek
     reports that Curran will "continue to personally handle his
     long-term clients, many of whom have been associated with
     him [for] more than 10 years" (Toronto GLOBE & MAIL, 11/6).