Notebook: Jan. 25, 1999

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WINNERS & LOSERS ALL JORDAN EDITION

[WINNERS]

JUANITA JORDAN Says life won't change, except that Mike may do "more car pooling." Most popular car pool ever!

THE LAKERS They're young, talented and hungry. Just keep Shaq out of the movies

SPORTSWRITERS President's on trial, but everyone's reading them. Hope Gretzky quits soon

[& LOSERS]

DAVID STERN The lockout's over, but does anyone care? Quick, charm lessons for Latrell Sprewell!

CHICAGO Famous for gangsters, Jordan and now what? Oprah can't dunk

THE OTHER MICHAEL JORDAN U. Penn b-baller keeps hearing that the NBA will never see another Michael Jordan

WHAT THE WORLD REALLY DOESN'T NEED NOW

As the presidential impeachment trial in Washington forges ahead, Americans can console themselves: sex scandals also rack other nations.

MALAYSIA: Ex-Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim was arrested in September on sodomy and corruption charges. Prosecutors have since dropped the sodomy charges and are focusing on abuse of power.

BRITAIN: Tony Blair's Welsh Secretary, Ron Davies, who is married, resigned his Cabinet post Nov. 4, after he was robbed by men he met at a London park known as a cruising ground for homosexuals.

CANADA: Former Nova Scotia premier Gerald Regan was acquitted in December on eight sex-related charges alleged to have occurred as far back as the 1950s. Now he will stand trial for allegedly "indecently assaulting" a baby sitter in the 1960s.

JAPAN: Naoto Kan, head of the Democratic Party of Japan, the country's largest opposition group, was alleged in a weekly magazine to have had an affair with a 32-year-old former newscaster. He denied the charge.

TAIWAN: Daniel Huang was eased out of his position as spokesman for provincial governor James Soong last fall after a radio journalist accused him--on the air--of getting her pregnant, pressuring her to get an abortion and dumping her for another girlfriend--all while separated but not yet divorced from his wife.

BALL PARK FIGURES

Who needs a stock portfolio when you've got baseball memorabilia? Mark McGwire's 70th home-run ball (not even the one that broke Ruth's record) set its own record at auction last week. But don't bet the farm on your signed Hank Aaron mitt yet. It's a steep drop to the next nine highest prices paid for sports memorabilia at public auction.

1 $3,005,000 - Mark McGwire's 70th home-run ball 2 $640,000 - 1909-10 trading card of Honus Wagner (1996 auction) 3 $363,000 - 1927 Lou Gehrig road jersey 4 $306,000 - Jersey worn by Lou Gehrig the day he gave the "luckiest man" speech in 1939 5 $222,500 - 1909-10 trading card of Honus Wagner (1998 auction) 6 $220,000 - 1938 Lou Gehrig jersey 7 $220,000 - 1942 Jimmie Foxx jersey 8 $176,000 - 1922 Ty Cobb uniform 9 $172,500 - Sammy Sosa's 66th home-run ball 10 $132,000 - 1929 Babe Ruth road uniform

Sources: Leland's, CNN/Sports Illustrated, Sports Collectors Digest, USA Today, Christie's, Sportsworld

DOUBLE VISION

CALL IN THE REINFORCEMENTS Networks are replacing canceled shows with mid-season replacements that look awfully familiar

OLD SHOW The Secret Life of Desmond Pfeiffer: Cartoonish show about Lincoln's butler that drew protests from African-American groups