FROM THE SWAMP TO YONKERS? NY SENATOR MAKES PITCH FOR JETS

          The Jets "will have a place" for a stadium in Yonkers,
     NY, if state Senator Nick Spano "has anything to say about
     [it]," according to Jesse Holland of the AP.  Spano
     yesterday wrote a letter to Jets Owner Robert Wood Johnson
     IV and "asked him to think about" moving the team to the
     Yonkers Raceway, which has 97 acres of land.  Spano: "It's
     feasible, it's accessible and it's available."  Holland
     notes that Yonkers Raceway is owned by Steelers Owner Art
     Rooney.  Spano is also "trying to recruit" Gov. George
     Pataki to "his cause" (AP, 1/20).
          N.Y. STATE OF MIND: NEWSDAY's Steve Zipay wrote that
     NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue "supported" a stadium
     proposal by Mets co-Owner Fred Wilpon in which the Jets
     would play in a "new" Shea Stadium.  Tagliabue, on the
     proposed stadium, which would cost between $400-500M: "I
     think it would be much better if the Jets had their own
     facility ... here in the [area]" (NEWSDAY, 1/19).