NAMES IN THE NEWS

          Retiring 49ers TE BRENT JONES "is leaning against
     running for Congress in June," his agent LEIGH STEINBERG
     said yesterday (S.F. CHRONICLE, 1/22)....HOWIE LONG was a
     guest on NBC's "Tonight Show" last night.  Long, on acting
     compared to pro sports: "When you come from professional
     football, you know, you make your own coffee, you drive
     yourself to work -- if you want to be pampered, become an
     actor" ("Tonight Show," NBC, 1/22)....In N.Y., Barbara
     Phillips reviewed "Bad As I Wanna Be: The DENNIS RODMAN
     Story," as a "well acted, but painfully shallow Rodman-
     produced and -narrated biopic" (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 1/22).