21.   As the prospect of the National Basketball Association season being canceled increases, so has talk that a rival league will be formed.

22.   Baseball fantasy leagues are major consumers of sports statistics.

23.   Because the league is desperate for TV coverage, and ESPN has a baseball doubleheader on Wednesday night.

24.   Because of rule changes allowing more movement and less contact, Jackson and others maintain that the league is less physical.

25.   Because the league has been up and running for only nine days, it would be foolish to name an all-star team.

26.   Because the players are bigger, faster and stronger and so is their league.

27.   Before Kennan, the league was mostly unresponsive to the complaints of the assistants, who then became bitter about their situation.

28.   Behind closed doors, the league is blunt and stringent.

29.   It meant the league might be willing to participate.

30.   A European league is more practical than starting one in the Far East, where the most striking development is at the grass-roots level.