31.   Beginning tonight in Chicago, the Stars play five preseason games in six nights.

32.   Best of all, the Cowboys got through their final preseason game without a major injury to any key players.

33.   Big deal, he essentially said today as his team prepared for a preseason game against the Spurs at the Alamodome.

34.   Biekert appears to have the inside track because he has more experience at that position and he has played well in the two preseason games there.

35.   Bjornson was the starter in all four preseason games.

36.   -- DERRICK COLEMAN does not understand why the Nets insist on playing every preseason game away from home.

37.   -- The Raiders have scored six touchdowns in their first two preseason games, but only one has come on the ground.

38.   A blitzing defense by the Jacksonville Jaguars ravaged the Carolina Panthers in a preseason game last weekend, causing four turnovers and sacking the Carolina quarterback seven times.

39.   A Jacksonville corner fell for the whole routine in a preseason game.

40.   A few weeks ago, he took his sons to a preseason game.