LEAGUE NOTES

          Organizers of the proposed home-and-home exhibition
     series between the Orioles and a team of Cuban All-Stars
     this spring "are pessimistic" the games will be played. 
     Sources said that the "major issue now ... apparently is
     strong opposition within the U.S. government" (WASHINGTON
     POST, 2/11)....The Worldwide Senior Tennis Tour, formerly
     the Nuveen Tour, is scheduled to hold 23 events in '99 --
     after starting with three during its '93 inaugural year --
     and prize money "has risen to over" $3.6M (Worldwide Tour).
     ...In the WNBA's recently released '99 schedule, the Liberty
     leads the league with 11 national TV appearances, split on
     NBC, ESPN and Lifetime.  The league will also hold its first
     All-Star Game on July 14, with a site to be determined, but
     sources told the Cleveland PLAIN-DEALER that MSG is the
     likely locale (Cleveland PLAIN-DEALER, 2/10).