41.   When trade rumors began in January, Gretzky said he wanted to join a club that had a legitimate shot at winning the Cup.

42.   When the episode aired about three years ago, about a year before the show went off the air, rumors began circulating that Ali was recording an album.

43.   Which is, of course, why the rumors began.

44.   After he was killed, rumors began flying that the company is heavily in debt.

45.   But rumors began to fly that Flores might be more seriously ill after first lady Mary Flake headed to Miami to visit her husband late Sunday night.

46.   It was not clear how the rumor began, but government officials went on television Thursday to urge people to be calm.

47.   Leverkusen refused to release him from his contract until the end of the Bundesliga season, when rumors began to surface about his drug use and alleged sex parties.

48.   Rumors began circulating early this week on Internet newsgroups after a photo was circulated featuring the bride and groom standing with two others.

49.   Rumors had begun Monday that Loy Hean Heong, president and chief executive officer of MBf Group, was ill.

50.   Schonauer came out to commanders at work after rumors began circulating a year ago.