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The Spurs have launched a SpurScription Pass that allows fans to attend every regular season home game this upcoming season for $44.50 a month. The SpurScription Pass includes a standing-room-only pass for all 41 home games. Fans will receive their standing-room-only pass 24 hours prior to tipoff and can use their mobile pass for entry into AT&T Center (Spurs).

IN THE LION'S DEN: The AP's Larry Lage noted Pro Football HOFer Barry Sanders is in his "second season as an ambassador" for the Lions, a "paid role that is sending him on the road" for Lions-Cowboys on Sunday. Sanders "visits suite holders during games and attends meet-and-greet sessions along with going to other team functions such as its draft party." Lions President Rod Wood said, "It's great having him around and back in the fold, interacting with fans and corporate sponsors. He's probably if not the best player in Lions history, he's in the handful of the best" (AP, 9/25).

BEAR MARKET: In Chicago, Ryan Ori reports the Bears have an "office in a downtown high-rise" for the "first time since the 1990s." About 35 employees in July "moved into an approximately 11,000-square-foot space" in a 30-story office building. The employees, in departments such as executive suite sales, corporate partnerships and events and experiences, "previously were based in three separate areas at Soldier Field." It is the "first time the Bears have occupied a traditional office space downtown" since '92 (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 9/26).

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