41.   Put these heretofore obscure trends together and you, too, can come up with a high-sounding rationale to excuse your lame showing in the office pool.

42.   Reformers look like stodgy Prohibitionists if they try to stamp out the friendly, local office pool.

43.   Run office pools.

44.   So on one hand, TaylorMade supports the USGA, but on the other, business is business . . . Planning your PGA Tour office pool?

45.   Some third-world countries would envy the gross receipts of NCAA office pools in America.

46.   Someday, everybody will simply copy down our selections, everybody will tie for first place in the office pool and nobody will get hurt.

47.   Still, for many players the office pool is their ticket to hoped-for riches.

48.   The committee will make an announcement that will send fans scurrying to fill out their brackets and organize their office pools.

49.   The magazine cites a Cincinnati company, digital BANG, that offers a software package that lets companies set up their own customized, in-house office pools.

50.   The NCAA tournament is the ultimate office pool, a competition that breaks out in every place of business from sea to shining sea.