League Notes

In Miami, Barry Jackson reports CBS’ Lesley Visser has “lined up two Midwest-based ‘money men’ and is studying the viability of bringing [an AFL] team to BankAtlantic Center.” During Super Bowl week, AFL Commissioner David Baker told her, “I would like you to become the first woman president of an AFL team” (MIAMI HERALD, 5/23).

WRITE STUFF: Since the WNBA Mystics’ training camp began, the WASHINGTON TIMES has received “scores” of form e-mails asking for increased coverage of Mystics games that start, “As a passionate fan of the Washington Mystics ...” The editors also received one that began, “As a passionate fan of the Sacramento Monarchs ...” (WASHINGTONTIMES.com, 5/22). The e-mails are part of a letter-writing campaign on the WNBA’s Web site that seeks to increase coverage in local newspapers (THE DAILY).

MAGNETIC FIELDS: Jim Furyk is the only top-ten player in the field at the PGA Tour’s Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial this week, and ESPN.com’s Bob Harig wrote the “unintended consequence” of the Tour’s rearranged schedule “was the negative impact on the fields at both the Byron Nelson Championship and the Colonial.” The tournaments, 30 miles apart and previously played in consecutive weeks, are now staged four weeks apart (ESPN.com, 5/22).