61.   But ugly reality set in for the Nets at the outset of the fourth quarter, as the Portland Trail Blazers turned a tight game into a rout.

62.   But two games into the season, Rick Adelman found it an appropriate topic.

63.   But unlike Monica Seles, who quit nine games into her first-round match on Tuesday due to shoulder pain, Martinez shrugged off her problem.

64.   But while counting on fitting her game into the pro ranks, Starbird acknowledged she had to get bigger and spent much of the offseason trying to do so.

65.   Chang wants to join that club, and it is that desire that has driven him to reshape a largely defensive game into a more versatile instrument.

66.   Chicago almost sent the game into overtime on a freakish play just as the final buzzer sounded.

67.   Cleveland could not overcome five errors of its own and self-destructed by allowing six runs in the ninth to transform the tight game into a rout.

68.   Closer Troy Percival made it only two games into the season before having to go on the disabled list with a strained muscle in his right side.

69.   Colangelo watched the Diamondbacks lose to the Philadelphia Phillies, then hung out with Showalter and the coaching staff long after the game into the morning hours.

70.   Chuck Knoblauch lined the first pitch of the game into center field, where Jay Payton dived but could not catch it.