Dueling ruins: The Rams have long since...

Dueling ruins: The Rams have long since gone. Now, the Raiders appear to be moving. If a new stadium is built in Inglewood, would USC’s football team leave, too? We can’t help but wonder if the Coliseum is headed toward retirement, like its namesake in Rome. A comparison of the two arenas:

Colosseum Coliseum Year opened A.D. 80 A.D. 1923 Built by Slaves Unions Ruler Titus Coolidge Previous site of Nero’s lake Gravel pit Worst quake A.D. 1349 A.D. 1994 Capacity 50,000 94,159 Seats Marble Wooden Field Wood Grass Admission Free $15-$42* Wild creatures On field In stands*

*At Raiders games

Secret love: No doubt you recall the time that Oscar-winner Sally Field gushed to the audience: “You like me--you really like me!”

Well, speaking for the city of Los Angeles, we felt the same way when we learned the results of a study by the L.A. Convention and Visitors Bureau.

The agency found that the area sending the most visitors to these parts is . . . San (Don’t Call Us Frisco) Francisco.

That’s right, the city that loves to knock Lozangeles. The city that’s so irritatingly smug about those cable cars that climb halfway to the stars, those ferryboats with their mournful horns, those bridges shrouded in fog. . . .

That reminds us. It’s time to make our vacation plans.

Anagram of the day: “Why use only cities?” scolds Margo Bell of Glendale. A fair question. So here’s her anagram salute to a rival of the Coliseum:

ROSE BOWL--SLOW BORE.

We’ve attended a couple of those bores, too.

PeteAlert: First, Gov. Pete Wilson loses his voice on the campaign trail. Then, a number of Caltrans message boards in the Southland flash messages that say: “PETE WILSON FOR PRESIDENT.”

An agency spokesman speculated that someone transmitted the bogus endorsements Tuesday in an attempt to embarrass Wilson over recent Caltrans layoffs in Los Angeles.

Sort of sounds like the spokesman believes that voters wouldn’t embrace a Caltrans-backed candidate, doesn’t it?

miscelLAny The Cat Hotel in Burbank, a boarding facility for felines that want to get away from it all, claims to be the first to offer “Cat-TV”--a 1,500-gallon aquarium filled with fish at safe distance behind the concierge’s desk.