61.   Nike is a marketing juggernaut and belongs closer to professional league sports than it does to a marathon.

62.   Now that there is a viable professional league in the US, the players are assuming identities.

63.   One day -- in my lifetime -- to have some type of professional league in the United States for women to play in.

64.   One of the conditions imposed by FIFA when it awarded the World Cup to the United States was the establishment of a professional league.

65.   Playing for profit in a foreign professional league, especially if the NBA season is wiped out, could help Olowokandi hold the learning curve.

66.   Previously, professional leagues depended heavily on imported talent.

67.   Players were available because there is no professional league to claim them.

68.   Rules for the Olympic-style game basically will be identical to American professional leagues, with a pair of notable exceptions.

69.   Sampson of the United States spoke last week of the need to respect relationships with overseas professional leagues, which have cultivated much American talent.

70.   Rothenberg and his associates cannot afford any significant corporate enmity as they seek sponsors for the professional league that is set to begin play in April.