FRANCHISE NOTES

          The AFL CityHawks are profiled by Bruce Weber in the
     N.Y. TIMES.  Weber writes that the starting QB also works as
     a mortgage broker and the WR/LB is also a barber: "Such is
     the charm and cruel anonymity of the New York CityHawks, the
     city's newest sports franchise and, in a sense -- because
     they play home games at Madison Square Garden and not at the
     Meadowlands -- its only professional football team" (N.Y.
     TIMES, 6/11)....In Chicago, Carol Slezak: "That wacky old
     Mike Veeck, he of Comiskey Park's disco demolition fame,
     nearly pulled off his craziest scheme yet."  Veeck, the
     owner of the Charleston (S.C.) Riverdogs of the South
     Atlantic League, had planned a special Father's Day
     promotion -- a free vasectomy.  Slezak: "There was so much
     negative feedback in Charleston that the promotion was
     canceled. ... File that one under surprise, surprise."  A
     Riverdogs spokesperson: "There was enough public sensitivity
     to make us look internally and cancel the promotion"
     (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 6/11).