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NANCY DUTCHER has joined the Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma, CA, as Dir of Sales....DON GAMBLE has been appointed Promoter and GM of Motordome Speedway in Smithton, PA (NASCAR NEWS, 10/11)....Hamilton

Tags: NASCAR, Speedway Motorsports Inc., People and Pop Culture

RAPTORS LOOK FOR SUCCESS IN TORONTO; TV DEAL SEEN AS KEY

The Raptors and owner John Bitove, Jr. are featured in the current BUSINESS WEEK under "Hoop Dreams in a Hockey Town. Why success will be such a stretch for the Toronto Raptors." If Bitove has "an ace

Tags: Franchises, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, NBA, Toronto Raptors

FRANCHISE NOTES

Blue Jays President Paul Beeston confirmed the team''s 11- person board will be disbanded. It will be replaced by a smaller committee of four or five individuals. Beeston: "It certainly wasn''t a shoc

Tags: AFL, CFL, Franchises, Toronto Blue Jays

FIRST GROUP COMES FORWARD WITH INTEREST IN CARDINALS

Andrew Baur, Chair of Southwest Bank, said Monday that he and a group of investors have the money to buy the Cardinals and keep them in Busch Stadium, according to a front-page piece in this morning''

Tags: Anheuser Busch, Baltimore Orioles, Franchises, NFL

BASEBALL LABOR WOES: BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD

"Baseball is at that awful point again, when the lawyers and labor negotiators take over and the game is held hostage," writes Gerry Fraley in today''s DALLAS MORNING NEWS. Fraley adds while MLB lacks

Tags: Cleveland Indians, Leagues and Governing Bodies, MLB, Time Warner

QUEBEC SECESSION VOTE DEFEATED BY SLIM MARGIN

Voters in Quebec defeated in referendum proposal for secession from Canada "by the tightest of margins -- about one- half of one percentage point." The late returns from "metropolitan Montreal, where

Tags: Law and Politics, NHL

MICHAEL'S ARMY? GOLF CENTERS COULD HELP SELL GAME

In the aftermath of the opening of the first of four planned Michael Jordan Golf Centers, some are suggesting that the game''s future may lie with a basketball player. In his column in GOLFWEEK, Adam

BALDWIN MAKES PENGUINS AN "EXAMPLE" OF SMALL-MARKET SURVIVAL

Penguins Owner HOWARD BALDWIN is the cover story in the latest issue of PITTSBURGH. Christopher Fletcher writes, "One of Baldwin''s strengths has been his marketing savvy. He has been resourceful in f

Tags: Pittsburgh Penguins, Pittsburgh Pirates, People and Pop Culture

MORE NETWORK NEWS

ABC: Cap Cities/ABC reported third quarter net income dropped 5% on costs related to the Disney merger and settlement of a lawsuit with Philip Morris. Excluding those costs, the broadcaster said net i

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MARKETPLACE ROUNDUP

American marketers'' "new war for women''s wallets" is examined in the current U.S. NEWS. The article, which features campaigns from different sectors of industry, features Nike and Reebok''s battle i

Tags: Anheuser Busch, Foot Locker/Venator Group, News Corp./Fox, Nike, Reebok, SGMA