Sports Industrialists

NAMES IN THE NEWS

11.10.1997

          VENUS WILLIAMS is featured on the front page of today's
     PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER under the header "Tennis' Newest Star
     Has All Eyes On Her" (PHILA. INQUIRER, 11/10)....Vikings QB
     BRAD JOHNSON, along with 10 to 12 other NFL players, will
     tape a special episode of "Wheel of Fortune."  The episode
     will air during Super Bowl week in January (Minneapolis STAR
     TRIBUNE, 11/8).....The DETROIT FREE PRESS profiles COLLEEN
     HOWE, wife of GORDIE HOWE, and her companies, Power Play
     International and Power Play Publications in today's paper
     (DETROIT FREE PRESS, 11/10)....Univ. of PA Wharton School
     Professor KENNETH SHROPSHIRE wrote in Sunday's N.Y. DAILY
     NEWS under the header "Blacks Must Speak Up If Stars Act
     Up."  Shropshire: "[W]hy isn't black America more critical? 
     Just as we condemn a Marge Schott for her racist comments,
     shouldn't we condemn the poor public behavior of athletes in
     the public eye?" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 11/9).

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