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AS D-DAY NEARS FOR EXPOS, IS LORIA GETTING COLD FEET?

          A meeting last week in N.Y. between MLB legal counsel
     Robert DuPuy and Expos execs, including team Chair Jacques
     Menard and potential investors Jeffrey Loria and Stephen
     Bronfman, "might be a step toward a pre-all-star break
     announcement" regarding the team's future in Montreal,
     according to Stephanie Myles of the Montreal GAZETTE.  But
     whether the decision will be "good news or bad is still up
     in the air."  Bronfman, son of former Expos Owner Charles
     Bronfman, has had his name "circulated about the ownership
     group for weeks," but only in terms of a minor investment in
     the range of C$5M.  However, Quebecor "decided against
     investing" in the Expos at a Board of Directors meeting
     Friday, saying it isn't their "role to involve itself in
     professional sport."  Myles also wrote that French-language
     Radio-Canada "might end its association with the team"
     regardless of what happens (Montreal GAZETTE, 6/20).  In
     Montreal, Jack Todd writes that reports of Loria "getting
     cold feet may have some truth to them."  Loria concluded he
     would have to invest US$75-100M in the team, rather than the
     US$50M he first envisioned (Montreal GAZETTE, 6/21). 
          SUITORS LINE UP: A SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL front-page
     feature by Bill King profiles possible suitors for the
     Expos, including Northern VA, Charlotte and Portland.  While
     the Orioles are against a team in Northern VA, team COO Joe
     Foss dismissed the potential impact of a relocated Expos
     team: "Quite frankly, I think that in the long run, we'd
     still be OK.  One of the questions I would have is, after we
     lose 500,000 or so fans to them, where are the other 2
     million fans going to come from to support another team in
     this market?" (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 6/21). 

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