31.   Nebraska Softball Association District Commissioner Roger Thompson said the Czech players wanted to see cowboys, so the Nebraskaland Days celebration and its rodeo seemed a natural fit.

32.   Reichel has complained that Czech players, winners at both the Olympics in Nagano and at the last world championships, are not adequately paid in the NHL.

33.   Reichel has complained that Czech players, winners at both the Nagano Winter Olympics and at the last world championships, were not being adequately paid in the NHL.

34.   Reichel is not the only Czech player to start playing at home this year.

35.   Roux broke Damm once in the first set and three times in the second as the Czech player had trouble with his first serve and missed volleys.

36.   The ball deflected off another Czech player, Pavel Kuka.

37.   The Czech player got the first break in the fifth game of the first set.

38.   The Boston Bruins also signed a Czech player Monday, agreeing to an undisclosed three-year deal with defenseman Vratislav Cech.

39.   The Czech players, especially dangerous with headers, actually scored their only goal on a high ball.

40.   The Czech player said he felt hounded over the issue and quit the sport last month, a year after his positive test to steroid nandrolone at Wimbledon.