31.   The tournament will have its stars.

32.   The tournament again will have equal prize money for men and women, the only Grand Slam event to do so.

33.   The tournament already has plans under consideration to establish criteria for past champions maintaining their places in the field.

34.   The tournament has a double-elimination format.

35.   The tournament has seven rounds, with every player playing in every round.

36.   Their mission is self-preservation, and they will clearly tilt the scales to ensure that the tournament still has a pulse and a tank of oxygen.

37.   The U.S. Open tennis tournament still has it wrong.

38.   This tournament had Russians and Czechs, Swedes and Finns, most of them from the NHL, suddenly dressed in their national colors.

39.   This year the tournament has the traditional plots and subplots.

40.   Thomas is still busy reorganizing the CBA, and of more pressing concern to college commentators is the impact the NCAA tournament has had on coaching strategies.