51.   Blaney is the second Big East basketball coach to lose his job in the last five days.

52.   Both, not surprisingly, are basketball coaches like their father.

53.   - As head basketball coach at Michigan and now Arizona State, Bill Frieder has lost his share of games.

54.   -- Knowing the UCLA alumni, winning the national championship should take the pressure off Bruins basketball coach Jim Harrick -- for at least a week.

55.   -- Other actions by the athletic department frustrated investigations of misconduct, including the withholding of important information by basketball coaches.

56.   -- USC basketball coach Henry Bibby must be slipping.

57.   A basketball coach advised a teen-ager on finding the father he never knew.

58.   A basketball coach, who moonlights as an insult comedian, an author, a shaman.

59.   A few blocks away, Howie Levine, varsity basketball coach at Grant High School in Van Nuys, is in his car facing the same critical decision.

60.   A few have sent notes to basketball coach Amy Tucker, requesting a little more dignity at the four spot, a demeanor in keeping with the Stanford image.