31.   Privately, the rules committee agrees.

32.   Surfing the anti-showoff wave, the rules committee of the NCAA established a series of guidelines this year.

33.   The competition and rules committee will meet next month to consider using instant replay.

34.   The measure, proposed by the NCAA football rules committee but awaiting formal adoption, received the blessing of the American Football Coaches Association.

35.   The NCAA baseball rules committee has tried in the past to help pitchers, but every new restriction was met with more offense.

36.   The rules committee is trying to solve the problem of games dragging in the final minutes.

37.   The rules committee of the National Federation of State High School Associations expects to discuss the aluminum-bat issue at its meeting in July.

38.   After Faldo and Pavin played out the hole, a spectator told the rules committee what had happened.

39.   Gable will study the findings and report to the NCAA wrestling rules committee.

40.   He then went before Russell and the rules committee to explain what happened.