Bucks F TYRONE HILL recently signed a deal with the
polygram Entertainment Group affil Platinum to distribute
his All Net Records label. Billboard Senior Editor MELINDA
NEWMAN: "It always seems that athletes want to be rock stars
and rock stars want to be athletes" (VIBE, 8/10 issue).
THE 29TH WORKS FOR US: MATS WILANDER will perform with
recording artists dada -- whose "California Gold" was the
second-most played song on alternative radio earlier this
month -- and THE TORIES, at the '98 U.S. Open Player Party,
August 29 at N.Y.'s China Club. The party is sponsored by
Heineken USA (THE DAILY)....The MLS Mutiny announced THE GOO
GOO DOLLS will perform at the closing of Houlihan Stadium
after the team's last match on September 13 (Mutiny).
OTHER NAMES: IOC Medical Commission Chair ALEXANDRE DE
MERODE "responded" to recent remarks made by IOC President
JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH about reducing the list of banned
substances. De Merode: "The president can have his
opinions. I do not understand, and they make me aghast ...
people who want to reduce the list are the people who want
to let doping function" (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 8/18)...JIM
CONNELLY, who recently resigned as NFLP Senior VP/Consumer
Products, "is said to be a candidate for a top marketing
post" at the NHL and "is a possible contender" to replace
BOB GAMGORT as President of MLBP (AD AGE, 8/18)...."JUDGE
MILLS LANE," the new courtroom show, "came out fighting in
its syndication debut Monday" with a 21% ratings boost for
the time periods it occupies on metered-market stations
(HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, 8/19)....FRANK DUROSS, co-Owner of the
A League Rochester Rhinos and the AHL Providence Bruins,
sole Owner of the NLL's Boston Blazers and a limited partner
in the MLS Fusion, is profiled in the Rochester DEMOCRAT &
CHRONICLE. A successful "sports entrepreneur" and
millionaire, DuRoss is currently "spearheading" Rochester's
push for an MLS team (DEMOCRAT & CHRONICLE, 8/15).
