THE WRITING ON (AND OFF) THE WALL FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON, MAY WE SUGGEST ...

Byline: TOM HOFFARTH

So you've got $62,500 burning a hole in your pocket, and it's time to go Christmas shopping. May we suggest a full-sized replica of Tony Stewart's No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Chevrolet ride, and a trip to the Auto Club 500 at California Speedway in February? There's only three of these packages available, and they go on sale starting Thursday at www.homedepot.com/nascargift.

Then again, for $17.99, there's a T-shirt with the word ``BORING'' across the chest, replacing the letters in the NASCAR marketing logo (www.bustedtees.com/shirts/boringnascar).

As for our personal wish list? Glad you asked:

``The White Shadow'' Season One DVD: $39.98, four-disc set, amazon.com and foxtvdvd.com.

Finally, coach Reeves is reunited with Salami, Thorpe, Coolidge, Gomez, Hayward, Reese, Jackson and Goldstein at L.A.'s inner-city Carver High - actually, it's the North Hollywood High gym, complete with cheesy wooden backboards, in the 1978 pilot episode.

Even those who didn't grow up with this short-lived CBS drama can appreciate its shelf life. The first 15-episode season alone dealt with alcoholism, shifty sports agents, teen pregnancy, illegal recruiting, gang involvement, homosexuality, gambling, autism, and interracial relationships. And, bad singing in the showers.

XaviX interactive bowling, baseball, golf and tennis: From $44.99 to $79.99, plus a XavixPort at $79.99. At xavixstore.com.

Think beyond the usual video game. The makers like to call it ``interactive technology system with wireless sports applications that is a new way to interact with their TV.'' For us, it's a trip to the bowling alley, driving range, batting cages or tennis courts without leaving the living room.

Each piece of equipment interacts through the port with sensors and infrared lights to react pretty realistic on the TV screen. We're partial to the bowling game, which comes with a wrist strap so you don't accidentally throw the ball through the screen.

Slingbox: $250, at slingbox.com. Also at amazon.com, Target, Radio Shack, Best Buy, Comp USA and Circuit City.

Included in Time magazine's list of the best inventions of 2005, this sports-inspired gadget allows you to watch whatever's on your TV set or TiVo through an Internet-connected PC, no matter where you are, as long as you have an ethernet connection near the TV (they also sell `em for $60 apiece). The inventors, Blake and Jason Krikorian, are big San Francisco Giants fans who wanted to follow their team during the 2002 pennant race. The Angels won, but now, so do we.

Nikon golf 500G LaserCaddy: $250, at amazon.com and various camera and golf-specialty stores.

The USGA says it's cool to use measuring devices like GPS and rangefinders at some tournaments, so it's probably a good idea to have one of these babies in the bag just in case you're invited to the Pebble Beach Pro-Am and can't find a reliable caddy on short notice.

It might seem like a 7-ounce extravagance, but for those of us with shaky depth perception, this measures distances from 11 to 550 yards, and can see the pin from 160 yards in (although some who've used it say it actually goes to 220). Nikon also makes a 440 ProStaff version that retails for a little less, but has less range.

Official X Games Sporting Goods: Info at expn.go.com, for purchase at walmart.com, target.com and amazon.com).

From bright red 20-inch BMX bikes ($98.40 and $149.50) that look like real motocross rides, to skateboards ($20) and the ramps and rails ($50) worth jumping them off.

Meanwhile, X Games big air medallist Andy Macdonald has decided to sell his Mac Zon skateboard - the same one he's using in the Tony Hawk Boom Boom HuckJam tour - on the Internet ($49.95, amazon.com) at half the price of the high-end pro-quality boards.

``Classic Ballparks: A Collector's Edition'' $24.95 at barnesandnoble.com.

The book by James Buckley Jr. is a nice read, but this special boxed package includes hand-painted mini replicas of Ebbets Field, Wrigley Field, Yankee Stadium, Tiger Stadium, Fenway Park and the Polo Grounds that alone are worth the price.

World Poker Tour junk: From decks to card shufflers, chip sets and rule books, video games, DVDs, books and jewelry. At various stores. We'll take the $44.95 gray hooded sweatshirt with the WPT logo on it, then we put on a pair of our own black sunglasses and pretend we're Phil ``The Unabomber'' Laak.

Kangoo Jumps: From $169 to $289 at kangoojumps.com.

Think low-impact jogging in a contraption that looks like a snowboot with football-shaped do-nut attached to the bottom.

The Swiss-made boots claims to cut down on all the joint stress, correct posture and encourage weight loss because it increases the metabolic rate with this ``rebound exercise.''

Call it one giant leap for mankind.

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(1) REGGIE BUSH

(2) JOE PATERNO

(3) DONOVAN McNABB

(4) Sania Mirza, the 19-year-old up-and-coming tennis player from India, whose attire has come under attack from Muslim critics.

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- Matthew Kredell