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NAMES IN THE NEWS

          STEFFI GRAFF, from an interview in TENNIS MAGAZINE:
     "[Wimbledon] is my favorite place in the world and where I
     want to end my career" (TENNIS MAGAZINE, 6/14 issue).
     ...CASEY MARTIN has accepted a sponsors' exemption to play
     in the Greater Hartford Open, July 2-5 (HARTFORD COURANT,
     6/12)....In N.Y., Jeane MacIntosh writes that citing
     "unrelenting public scrutiny," MARIAH CAREY and DEREK JETER
     "have benched their romance -- for now" (N.Y. POST, 6/12).
     ...BRETT FAVRE and Univ. of WI football coach BARRY ALVAREZ
     made appearances yesterday at a luncheon supporting WI GOP
     Gov. TOMMY THOMPSON's re-election.  The event marked the
     first time Favre, not a registered voter in Green Bay, "had
     been linked" to a WI political scene.  ED GARVEY, the only
     announced Democratic candidate for governor, said it was
     "ironic" that he was the first Exec Dir of the NFLPA between
     '71-82, when the union negotiated dramatic improvements in
     players' salaries (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 6/12)....
     NASCAR President BILL FRANCE JR. will deliver the keynote
     address to open the national sports editors convention, June
     24 in Richmond, VA (USA TODAY, 6/12).

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