41.   Sir Walter, a native of Oldham, England, had a brief and undistinguished career as a professional player.

42.   Still, golf has not become as oversexed as say, tennis, whose professional players, like Anna Kournikova, have recently been criticized for wearing skimpy outfits.

43.   Stoick, a former professional player, strongly disagrees.

44.   Such a fund would be impossible to organize except in a nation or a sport where free agency is not an option for professional players.

45.   The American team was made up of minor-leaguers, the first time professional players were used in the Olympics.

46.   The hottest professional player in the area right now has to be Rick Hartmann of the Atlantic Golf Club in Bridgehampton, N.Y.

47.   The government recently approved applications for Japanese nationality by six professional Canadian players so that they could join the Japanese team.

48.   The London Country College campus in Surrey features a soccer camp with professional players as visiting instructors.

49.   The Los Angeles Dodgers so far have resisted the idea, concentrating their strike-replacement efforts on unsigned former professional players.

50.   The money should be used to clarify what is a college player, which should be separate from what is a professional player.