They Handle a Problem With Sensitive In-sight

Some unexpected entertainment at the Toronto SkyDome during the 1990 baseball season led to a new set of ground rules in the stadium’s $200-a-night hotel.

Spectators at a Blue Jay-Seattle Mariner game got more than their nine innings’ worth, focusing their attention on a man and a woman in one of the 70 rooms that face the field.

The lights in the hotel room were off, but the ballpark lights had begun to take effect.

Several days later, a lone hotel guest provided his own show.

In announcing the new rules, hotel manager Ray Thompson said: “I believe the people, for their own particular reason, wanted to perform in front of 40,000 people. . . . It certainly has created a lot of interest in the hotel and in that room. Many people want to rent the same room.”

Add SkyDome: The hotel’s waiver agreement reminds guests, “You can see the audience and they can see you. This means that when the window is open for viewing, your room is part of a public place and you should conduct yourself accordingly,”

Restrictions include: No throwing, dropping, dangling or holding anything out the window; no placing or resting anything on the ledge; no carrying on “any activity not considered appropriate in public,” and no being “in a state of partial or complete undress.”

Said Thompson: “It covers pretty well everything that might occur.”

Trivia time: Name the only three active NBA players who have been all-stars every year they have been in the league.

Wait a minute: Today’s “NBA All-Star Stay in School Jam,” featuring show business celebrities and this year’s all-stars, will be attended by 18,000 middle-school students from the Charlotte, N.C., area.

According to the Associated Press, “The students earned the invitation by maintaining perfect attendance from Sept. 4, 1990, to Jan. 16, 1991.”

In other words, they are putting on this show for the ones who need it least.

Voice of experience: Ram wide receiver Henry Ellard, after playing in the pro-am division of the recent Ben Hogan Bakersfield Open, said:

“In football, if you catch a few passes, you’ve had a great day. In golf, if you hit a few fairways, you’re in trouble.”

Raw data: Under the heading, “Stat of the Week,” the AP noted Friday that two nights after Washington Bullets forward Bernard King scored 49 points against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden, five Sacramento starters totaled 51 points as the Kings lost to the Knicks, 92-78.

Used-to-be’s: A decade ago, Old Dominion and Louisiana Tech were at the pinnacle of women’s college basketball.

Tonight, the Monarchs (2-16) will visit the Techsters (12-7) in Ruston, La., for what promises to be a game.

Old Dominion’s record is the worst in its history, and its 10-game losing streak is its longest. Meanwhile, Louisiana Tech is absent from the AP poll for the second consecutive week.

Trivia answer: Michael Jordan, David Robinson and Isiah Thomas.

Quotebook: Coach Lindy Infante of the Green Bay Packers, looking on the bright side of his team’s 6-10 record in 1990 after finishing 10-6 in 1989: “I won’t have to run around the country and collect a whole bunch of coach-of-the-year trophies.”