91.   Only in baseball has it become a practice to sign players to long-term, guaranteed contracts, obligating teams to pay even if the player is injured or ineffective.

92.   Owner Malcolm Glazer opened the vault to sign players to long-term extensions.

93.   Pepperdine signed two players during the early-signing period, and both will add size.

94.   Phoenix has signed two players for next season, forward Michele Timms and center Jennifer Gillom.

95.   Properties countered by offering to sign players to contracts.

96.   Players are already signed for this season, and the owners would derive no immediate benefit from a unilateral change in the economic system.

97.   Rangers officials said it is the first time the team has signed a player to a multiyear deal before he was eligible for arbitration.

98.   Schieffer said that when a team signs a player to a significant contract, it has an impact on another part of the ballclub.

99.   Signing players was a free-for-all.

100.   So far, the World Golf Tour has not signed any players for its series.