It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Olympic World (a roundup of bits surrounding the upcoming Games); The Boston Red Sox Connection (Les Otten and hsi bid for the team); Numbers On Stats, Stats On Numbers (sports participation figures); The Art of Corporate Speak (results and soft-selling from ASC, Vail and Intrawest); Precedent Set in Discrimination Case (Mt. Bachelor under order to reinstate ski patroller whose wife had AIDS); Short Turns on Squaw Valley's water woes and the Powdr-Pape bidding for Bachelor.