1.   After those meetings, Ovitz, chairman of Artists Management Group, said he would do whatever the league asked him to do.

2.   But if the league asks for presentations at the summer meetings in May, the city that has a stadium financing plan will have the upper hand.

3.   But the league asked us if we were interested on a number of occasions.

4.   Feeney said the league asked Sanders yesterday to stop wearing the uniform.

5.   He said repeatedly that there was no truth to rumors the league asked Jordan to retire because of the gambling.

6.   He said the league had not asked him for any film of the game.

7.   He said the league would ask Judge Sidney H. Stein to vacate the decision and, if the judge refused, would appeal.

8.   If the bid is rejected, the league probably would ask the trustees operating the franchise to reopen the process.

9.   Leagues could ask for volunteers to be bought out by Major League Baseball.

10.   Nor did the league ask NBC for its tape.