51.   Peter Taglianetti was sent there as well, as Kasper said he wants to look at some other players in these next few games before making assignments official.

52.   Playing long enough to nail down every major career receiving record would only make it official.

53.   Ray Wooldridge, the Charlotte co-owner, made it official in a telephone interview last week.

54.   Recently, he made it official.

55.   Scioscia made it official Tuesday -- Tim Belcher will make his first start of the season Saturday in Baltimore.

56.   Saturday, Spike Dykes made it official.

57.   So everybody waited for three weeks for West and the Lakers to make it official, as they did on Monday.

58.   Sure enough, an hour earlier the non-partisan National Bureau of Economic Research had made it official.

59.   Still, there seemed to be some surprise Wednesday when his Hall of Fame election was made official.

60.   That it has bonds makes it official, and specifies a claim on general revenues.