101.   The shooting of Seattle Sonics guard Sarunas Marciulionis kept Lithuania in the game until the final minutes.

102.   The remaining three games until the World Cup, against Finland, Colombia and Luxembourg, will be used to fine-tune the squad.

103.   The sports council last Friday asked international teams to postpone scheduled games until its demands had been met.

104.   The shooting of Sarunas Marciulionis, the Seattle SuperSonics guard, kept Lithuania in the game until the final minutes.

105.   The suspension is likely to keep Di Canio out of the game until early January.

106.   The team began the season on the road and did not have its first home game until last Friday.

107.   While the hosts played to packed houses every time out, almost every other game until the closing weekend had only hundreds of fans in the stands.

108.   Woerns, by no means outstanding in previous national team games, practically made Ronaldo invisible in the game until his extraordinary late strike.

109.   Yankees starting pitchers had not allowed a run since that game until the Devil Rays scored an unearned run in the sixth.

110.   And because New Jersey, Nevada and other states will honor the New York ban, Newman is effectively shut out of the fight game until next August.