51.   Just when the Athletics and the Mariners lost touch with the leather, kicking balls around the yard, the Yankees were ready to pounce.

52.   Local boys were kicking around a ball.

53.   Little was resolved at the meeting, according to people at the firm, but the two men kicked around names of people who might serve on the board.

54.   Maybe Stossel is planning to kick around his own techniques in a future expose of junk journalism.

55.   Montreal Manager Felipe Alou is seriously kicking around the idea of moving Wilton Guerrero from second base to outfield over the winter.

56.   Most of the players on the U.S. national soccer team have been kicking around our collective sporting consciousness for the better part of a decade.

57.   No real vipers with whom to joust, no Nixon to kick around any more, no Evil Empire to taunt, only Bill Clinton to explain.

58.   Not surprisingly, there are plenty of grand theories kicking around Washington.

59.   On recent outings, John Stossel has kicked around such inviting objects as feminist ideologues and the scaremongers of television news.

60.   On the street, young boys kicked around a plastic bottle and dreamed of being the soccer idols of the future.