UNDERPERFORMING FAN STORES LEADS TO MAGIC CLOSING SHOPS

          The Magic, "faced with a long, steady slide in demand
     for sports merchandise," will "close its last two FanAttic
     retail stores," according to Greg Groeller of the ORLANDO
     SENTINEL.  The FanAttic's "free-standing," 10,000-square-
     foot building near Orlando Arena will "close by the end of
     December."  A smaller store at West Oaks Mall in Ocoee will
     close in January.  Groeller: "Some of the stores'
     merchandise and apparel will be moved to three retail
     outlets at the Magic's training facility, RDV Sportsplex." 
     RDV Sportsplex VP Karl Droppers wouldn't say if the stores
     "were losing money."  Droppers: "They weren't performing to
     our corporate standards" (ORLANDO SENTINEL, 10/13).