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          Turner Broadcasting Systems has retained ProServ to
     assist with the procurement of a naming rights partner for
     the new Hawks & Thrashers arena, which opens in Fall '99. 
     ProServ will work in concert with Turner Broadcasting Sales,
     Inc., in taking the deal to market (Turner)....In Seattle,
     the Public Facilities District Board approved revised
     spending plan that exhausted a $24.7M reserve fund for the
     Mariners new ballpark, guaranteeing the project "will exceed"
     its $417M budget.  But Mariners President John Ellis
     confirmed that the team will "pay these overruns" (Tacoma
     NEWS TRIBUNE, 5/19)....The 76ers broke ground yesterday on a
     new practice facility at the Philadelphia College of
     Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM).  The 76ers new facility, a joint
     venture of the team and PCOM, will be called the Student
     Activities Center (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 5/20)....The Harris
     County-Houston Sports Authority is expected to give a two-
     year, $600,000 contract to TX-based Schindewolf & Associates
     to oversee construction of the Astros new park (HOUSTON
     CHRONICLE, 5/20)....The stadium efforts of the Mets and
     Yankees are examined by USA TODAY's Tom Pedulla in a Sports
     Cover Story under the header "N.Y. Stadiums: Controversy Is
     All That's Building" (USA TODAY, 5/20).

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