71.   St. Petersburg has always been the ace in the hole for teams thinking of moving, but that city has been awarded an expansion franchise, as has Phoenix.

72.   The Browns job was huge because it was an expansion franchise in a football-rich city.

73.   The Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins each paid that much two years ago for expansion franchises.

74.   The Cleveland Browns expansion franchise has the first pick, but no coach.

75.   The Dolphins at the time were a four-year-old expansion franchise, but a year later they began a run of three straight AFC titles.

76.   The East Coast Hockey League awarded an expansion franchise to the suburban Washington area, one of two new teams that will begin play next season.

77.   The first team with an anti-smoking campaign is Jacksonville of the National Football League, the expansion franchise which almost reached the Super Bowl.

78.   The Jacksonville Jaguars said president David Seldin will step down after spending five years helping build the National Football League expansion franchise.

79.   The league has rarely sounded as deferential as it did Tuesday during a press conference to announce it has chosen the Coliseum as conditional site for an expansion franchise.

80.   The National Hockey League expansion franchise in Nashville, Tennessee named Barry Trotz its first head coach.