News Corp. Chair Rupert Murdoch is the cover story of
BARRON's under the header, "King Of Sports." Michael
Santoli writes that Fox Sports Net, worth "perhaps" $4B, is
"growing fast," and in the U.S., it "looks especially
promising" (BARRON'S, 9/21 issue)....New Devil Rays Senior
VP/Marketing Mike Veeck, on his reputation for throwing
"off-the-wall" promotions and how that may play in the
majors: "I think you do tone it down some in terms of making
sure nothing you do intrudes on the game itself. We've got
something here you don't have in the minor leagues and
that's the personalities" (ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, 9/19)....In
Boston, Peter Gammons reported that if the Padres ballpark
referendum for a new stadium fails, the "feeling in
baseball" is that the Padres "will try to beat" the Expos to
Washington, DC, in 2000 (BOSTON GLOBE, 9/20)....MLB
Commissioner Bud Selig said that Expos President Claude
Brochu did not request permission to talk to prospective
owners during the recent league meetings in Milwaukee.
Selig: "The subject never came up, either privately or in
the executive committee" (Toronto GLOBE & MAIL, 9/22).
