
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 8, 1994                   TAG: 9403080148
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
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THE `DEAN DOME' IS A LOSING PROPOSITION

While Dean Smith's basketball team keeps winning games, the arena named after him in Chapel Hill, N.C., keeps losing money.

Except for 1987-88, when a string of popular concerts helped it turn a profit, the $34 million Dean E. Smith Center has lost money every year since it opened in 1986. Last year, the arena lost $611,000 even though North Carolina won the NCAA basketball championship.

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