In Memphis, just over 13,000 tickets have been sold as
of Tuesday for Sunday's Oilers game (Memphis COMMERCIAL
APPEAL, 9/17)....At the MLB owners meeting in Atlanta, the
Executive Council, of which Twins Owner Carl Pohlad is a
member, "is expected to further discuss" the possibility of
allowing individual team owners to sell stock in their teams
-- a policy Pohlad has endorsed (STAR TRIBUNE, 9/16)....In
Chicago, Sam Smith writes about Dennis Rodman and the Bulls
under the header, "Memo To Bulls: Whatever You Do Don't Sign
Rodman." Smith: "It's time to dump Rodman's behind, not
risk seeing it. ... Just say no" (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 9/17).
ECHL NEWS: The ECHL approved the expansion application
KTB Sports for the territory of Southwest FL. The
principles in the expansion franchise are Hurricanes/
Compuware Chair Peter Karmanos, Compuware Vice Chair Thomas
Thewes, and Craig Brush, president of KTB Sports (ECHL).
...Minority partners Matt Strelo and Shawn Hegan have
assumed management control of the ECHL's Jacksonville Lizard
Kings, owned by Horn Chen. Strelo is now the team's new
president and Hegan is the Exec VP & GM (Lizard Kings)
