Judgment Calls

[Thumb Up]To the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, for levying a tax on 49er tickets (75 cents) and Giants tickets (25 cents) beginning next season, with the resulting revenues earmarked to help subsidize local school sports programs.

[Thumb Down]To Steve Wynn, owner of the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, for promoting a plan to build canals throughout the city's downtown. The $25 million project would waste five million gallons of water a year in an area that already faces severe water shortages.

[Thumb Down]To Bill Laimbeer and Hudson Soft USA, Inc., for marketing " Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball," a video game in which a court turns into a battlefield, the players wear armor and fans hurl missiles and saw blades at them.