21.   Chicago Rep. Micheal Flanagan plans to introduce an amendment making it harder for sports team franchises to relocate.

22.   City officials said Los Angeles also receives business tax revenue from the sports franchise, but said that information is confidential.

23.   Cottrell, a Dallas businessman, is a part owner of the Texas Rangers and one of the first blacks to own part of a major league sports franchise.

24.   County studies performed for the Mariners ballpark indicated that few multipurpose facilities have succeeded in bringing in new business to replace departing sports franchises.

25.   Dual ownership of major sports franchises is permitted, but only when they are in the same, or neutral, market.

26.   Devised by two lawyers, it ranks the haplessness of professional sports franchises and promises to settle more tavern arguments than a barkeep with a Louisville Slugger.

27.   Efforts to prevent professional sports franchises from moving to new cities picked up the support of the National Football League commissioner and key senators Wednesday.

28.   Fans and media see sports franchises as institutions without respect to the composition of rosters.

29.   For other places with sports franchises, they realized, local imagery would always be a plentiful natural resource.

30.   For Bell Atlantic, seeing GTE go to BellSouth would have been like the general manager of a sports franchise watching an attractive free agent join a divisional rival.