41.   He will open the season with the Kings, but will be sent down when Fiset returns.

42.   If there is a lockout, replacement players will be used to open the season.

43.   In Boston, he had a setback in training camp, which ensured a stint on the IL to open the season.

44.   It fostered his rotten-apple image and earned him a one-game suspension by Commissioner David Stern to open the season.

45.   It seems fitting that the company will take up this theme when it opens a weeklong season at City Center in Manhattan on Wednesday.

46.   It seems fitting that the company will take up this theme when it opens a weeklong season at City Center in New York City on Wednesday.

47.   It appears that the Knicks will be without Charles Oakley when they open their season Friday night against the Detroit Pistons.

48.   It seems inevitable the replacement Royals will play their final exhibition game Saturday in Atlanta against the bogus Braves, then open the season Monday in Detroit.

49.   It was a wise and long overdue move to use warm-weather sites and domed stadiums to open the season.

50.   Kansas State men open basketball season with Arizona at preseason NIT.