51.   Stern was recommending owners cancel the season, and high-powered agents were possibly planning a rival league.

52.   Stern said that making sure the league remained competitive was the motivation behind his threat to cancel the season.

53.   The baseball season was canceled following a strike in August, eliminating the playoffs and World Series.

54.   The call was mainly to assuage fears that the NBA season would be canceled.

55.   The Jousters League just canceled its season for the first time in history in a dispute over free agency and saddle subsidies.

56.   The NHL, with its threats of canceling the season sometime next week, is on the brink of falling onto the same tacky flypaper that has entrapped baseball.

57.   The league has resisted issuing a deadline for canceling the season, despite the suggestion made by the union on Friday.

58.   The season was temporarily canceled last week by the owners, after the players could not agree to work out labor problems under collective bargaining.

59.   The Red Sox also know that to cancel the season would also deny their painfully loyal fans another summer of pathos at Fenway Park.

60.   There is a real possibility that most, if not all, of the coming season will be canceled.