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          USA TODAY's Melanie Wells reports that Compaq Computer
     "is talking with" the IOC about replacing IBM as an Olympic
     Games technology sponsor (USA TODAY, 10/26)....Shortly after
     she posed for a Univ. of KY (UK) club hockey team poster, UK
     alum Ashley Judd "donned a UK basketball jersey for the
     cover of a new magazine called Kentucky Monthly."  Judd, on
     the covershot: "That's the one that's good and meaningful. 
     And I could care a rat's hooey about hockey" (LEXINGTON
     HERALD-LEADER, 10/24)....Proctor & Gamble spokesperson
     Elizabeth Moore said that Colts RB Craig "Ironhead"
     Heyward's Zest Body Wash commercials have "moved the needle
     in the right direction," but she "declined to say how much
     of a boost" the campaign has given to the product
     (INDIANAPOLIS STAR-NEWS, 10/25)....Falcons coach Dan Reeves
     and nine of his players are "featured" in a series of PSAs
     about their religious faith.  The announcements will air on
     WATC-TV in Atlanta, other media outlets and during Falcons
     home games at the Georgia Dome.  DB William White, who
     conceived the idea: "Even though professional athletes are
     well-known for their endorsements, no one has made a
     commercial for Christ" (ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, 10/24).       
      

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