31.   Regardless of the weather, there will be plenty to do, no matter when the holiday weekend begins or ends.

32.   The final weekend begins with four teams in each conference in the playoffs and three in each battling for the final two spots.

33.   The four-race speed weekend began Friday with a win by Katja Seizinger in the super-G.

34.   The four-race speed weekend began Friday with a win by Seizinger in the super-G.

35.   The next-to-last regular-season weekend begins Saturday with Minnesota at Detroit and Denver at San Francisco.

36.   The three-day holiday ends Thursday but hundreds of thousands of people began streaming out of the capital to the countryside before the weekend began.

37.   The weekend rioting began out of sympathy for Tecla Tom, a first-year arts student, who was found dead Friday in a female hostel.

38.   The weekend began with Busch Grand National qualifying Thursday night.