31.   Major League Soccer has taken several steps to build on the considerable success the league enjoyed in its inaugural season last year.

32.   Major League Soccer successfully kicked off its inaugural season in April, thanks in large part to shrewd marketing aimed at Hispanics.

33.   Morgan succeeds Barbara Allen, the second WUSA executive to be replaced since the league began its inaugural season in April.

34.   Not stunned they would switch to a tournament, but that their inaugural season was under way.

35.   New parks in Milwaukee, Detroit, and Pittsburgh are all attracting fewer fans this year than they did during their inaugural season.

36.   She and the diminutive guard bonded after Perrot was voted onto the team after a Comets tryout before the inaugural season.

37.   So far, that inaugural season at Clemson Stadium is a tough sell, mainly because the location is difficult to get to.

38.   Speaking of the Blue Jackets, the team hired former Canadian national and Calgary Flames coach Dave King to take the helm for the inaugural season.

39.   --Stunned to learn the ABA had decided to shorten its inaugural season and start a single-elimination tournament.

40.   Success in the inaugural season of the WNBA brought honors for league President Val Ackerman.