Fans Don’t Miss a Thing With Rooms at SkyDome

The SkyDome Hotel, built inside Toronto’s new stadium, has 70 rooms with a direct view of the playing field.

But the view from the stadium to the hotel was more interesting Tuesday night.

Binocular-equipped fans gave new meaning to the seventh inning stretch when they looked in on a man and a woman in a romantic interlude.

The lights were off in the hotel room, but the ballpark lights revealed all, and hotel management is now warning guests that they can be seen by the crowd.

Unusual proposal: Sports columnist John Rohde of the Daily Oklahoman abandoned his usual format recently by writing, “Today I’m going to try to change someone’s life. My own.”

Then he wrote: “It’s with trembling fingers and a racing heart that I type the following: ‘Debbie Burchart, will you marry me?’ ”

Rohde said it was the first anniversary of the day he met Burchart, so it seemed an appropriate time to ask. She accepted.

Trivia time: Who won the high jump at the Coliseum Relays in 1943?

Playing it safe: Comedian Tom Dreesen, master of ceremonies earlier this week for the NutraSweet golf and tennis tournament, a charity event for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, talked about his day of golf.

“You can’t believe the jerks in my foursome. I knew I was in trouble when, on one hole where there was a ditch about 80 yards out from the tee, two of the guys laid up.”

Indianapolis 500 tidbits: --The record for lead changes during the race is 29 times in 1960.

--Eddie Rickenbacker and Peter Henderson wore steel helmets in the 1916 race, the first time crash helmets were used in an automobile race in the United States.

Trivia answer: USC’s Harley Tinkham, who regularly writes Morning Briefing, tied for first place with a less-than-astounding jump of 6 feet 2 inches.

Quotebook: The late Casey Stengel, on whether his players should have sex before baseball games: “I don’t mind that. It’s what they have to go through to get it that bothers me.”