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RIPKEN HELPS MARKETING FIRM GROW, EYES LIFE AFTER BASEBALL

          CAL RIPKEN JR.'s marketing firm will announce a new
     name today "as well as its expanded reach in sports
     marketing and representation," according to Joe Strauss of
     the Baltimore SUN.  MD-based Tufton Sports & Management,
     headed by President & COO IRA RAINESS, will replace what had
     been recognized since '92 as The Tufton Group.  The change
     "culminates a three-month transition Rainess and Ripken seek
     to diversify the company."  Rainess wants to move the
     company to a "higher level" that will include recruitment of
     other high-profile clients and "strategic alliances"  with
     other agencies.  Tufton Sports & Management named former
     Orioles and Redskins PR exec JOHN MAROON as
     VP/Communications and former IBL BayRunners COO TODD
     BREIGHNER as VP/Business Development.  Though Ripken is
     considered Tufton's "most prominent client, he will assume a
     more prominent role in its management upon his retirement." 
     Ripken: "It was always important to me, through baseball, to
     Tufton Spots currently handles marketing interests for free-
     agent P MIKE MUSSINA, Orioles P RYAN KOHLMEIER and Reds 1B
     SEAN CASEY, among others (Baltimore SUN, 11/29).

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