51.   Players on both sides knew that this game might mean everything in soccer terms.

52.   Proving that this game actually means something, the Dome is sold out and neither team is from the SEC.

53.   PHOENIX - One game means nothing.

54.   Sheffield respects Leyland and understands what the All-Star game means to his former manager, who lost almost all of his World Series championship team in a salary purge.

55.   So now Drew knows what the game means to him.

56.   So what does this game mean, then, beyond bragging rights and the national hype that comes with it?

57.   That game can often mean exploitation.

58.   That game means nothing now.

59.   The Bill Parcells era begins Friday evening with a game against the Philadelphia Eagles, and the new coach bristles when someone says the game means nothing.

60.   The exhibition games will never mean more to the New England Patriots than this summer.