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          Reds Managing Exec John Allen, on the upcoming
     referendum on the site for the team's proposed new ballpark:
     "We feel as a tenant we should have some say on where we're
     going to locate our business.  Before we even play one game
     there, we're paying $30 million (toward construction)." 
     More Allen: "It's a two-way street.  Yes, we're being helped
     with the stadium.  But we pay earnings taxes.  We pay
     admissions taxes.  We give something back" (CINCINNATI
     ENQUIRER, 9/24)....In Denver, Mark Kiszla on Broncos Owner
     Pat Bowlen's effort to get a new publicly-funded stadium:
     "He has been very reluctant to open his books and
     demonstrate the real financial need for us to pick up the
     vast majority of costs of a facility guaranteed to
     dramatically improve his own personal worth.  Love might be
     blind.  But it need not be stupid" (DENVER POST, 9/24)....In
     Boston, Nick Cafardo writes that if RI Gov. Lincoln Almond
     is re-elected, the Patriots "will be wooed again by
     Providence."  Those "involved in the state's politics" say
     that Almond would present Patriots Owner Robert Kraft with
     the same deal he rejected last year, which would have
     taxpayers pay $100M of $250M to build a new, open air,
     70,000-seat stadium (BOSTON GLOBE, 9/24)....The Saddledome
     has implemented a "non-smoking policy" (CALGARY SUN, 9/24).

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