31.   The farewell tour of Boston Garden has become trendy, bordering on tacky.

32.   The farewell tour.

33.   The injury derailed a farewell tour that would have been Yaz-like.

34.   The Jordan story all of it bears coverage, and not just the farewell tour and coronation of his heir.

35.   The retiring Dave Marcis is going to have a farewell tour, after all.

36.   The Ramones are gathering encomiums on a farewell tour.

37.   Then there are the opera divas on yet another farewell tour.

38.   There will be no farewell tours.

39.   There was no Yazlike farewell tour, no Ray Bourqueish speculation about the final days of a star performer.

40.   They said the deal hinged on a new contract with Gretzky being successfully negotiated and the marketing rights to a possible farewell tour being worked out.