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...smaller markets during the fall and winter, is known as a players' league; it pays more--the average salary is $80,000 a year--and boasts of having the best players (Olympians Dawn Staley, Teresa Edwards and Katrina McClain). Playing in cities like San Jose, Calif., Richmond, Va., and Columbus, Ohio, the A.B.L. averaged 3,500 fans a game with very little TV exposure. By one estimate, the A.B.L. spent $6 million on salaries this year and $1.5 million on marketing. The W.N.B.A., on the other hand, is spending $15 million on marketing and $3 million on salaries...
...YORK: The Nolan Ryan of Japan is headed to Columbus. The New York Yankees optioned Hideki Irabu to their Triple-A Columbus team for more seasoning after it became clear that he isn't ready for prime time. "He's going to Columbus to get things ironed out in a less strenuous atmosphere," general manager Bob Watson explained. Irabu, whom the Yankees signed to a $12.8 million contract, gave up six runs and four hits in only two innings Saturday in a 9-7 loss to Seattle. He threw just 41 pitches and was booed as he left the mound...
This conflict sits atop something ancient. "We are a nation of individuals and a nation of cooperators," notes Irwin Miller, the 87-year-old patriarch of Columbus, Ind., who used to run Cummins Engine Co. "Both are in our culture. The adversarial and the cooperative need to be kept in balance, and they are a little out of whack." Two centuries ago, the colonists wondered whether they had enough in common to become a united nation at all. Ever since, each generation has struggled with the uniquely American faith that community and freedom must be compatible. It may be that...
...stand-alone new networks to offer alternative service in key markets where demand for state-of-the-art data, long-distance and local calling was high. Similar deals were rolled out through the rest of 1996. ICG signed with Midwest giant American Electric Power to offer communications in Columbus and Canton, Ohio. Cascade, a Westford, Mass., company, will supply frame-relay devices to ICG's burgeoning Northern California network, allowing the Bay Area's techie firms to avoid Internet overload. Additional networks are building in the Southeast...
...industrial manufacturers that ring Ross County, the challenge is to convert the old economy to the new, which often means better profits but less hiring. National City Bank of Columbus surveyed 50 companies in the county and found that they projected $165 million in investment over the next three years but a net loss in new jobs. Workers who can't keep up with changing technology are finding fewer and fewer plants that will hire them: they don't want the $5.50-an-hour jobs, but they don't have the skills for the $12-an-hour ones. Richard Rahrle...