FACILITY NOTES

          The U.S. Supreme Court "refused yesterday to hear the
     last in a long line of legal challenges to the new Mariners
     ballpark, guaranteeing that construction aimed at a July 1999
     opening can continue" (SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, 1/21).
     ...Renovation costs at Anaheim Stadium "have risen to" $115M,
     as Disney Chair Michael Eisner "agreed to spend an extra $15
     million on the renovation."  The stadium, which reopens April
     1, will feature a geyser that "will shoot water seven stories
     in the air" after an Angels home run, as well as 82 colored
     lights, music and fireworks.  Fisher & Kingsley wrote that
     stadium officials "may need whizbang appeal" to reach their
     goal of selling 2.5 million tickets a year -- 800,000 more
     than were sold in '97 (ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, 1/20).