61.   It was the first time a major sports franchise has been fined for illegal campaign contributions.

62.   Jones has performed one of the more extensive pieces of reconstructive surgery that a professional sports franchise has ever undergone.

63.   Jones said he is generally not opposed to NFL owners owning other professional sports franchises in the same market.

64.   Jones said he never will be like Tom Hicks, the Stars owner who is also buying the Rangers and who views his sports franchises as investments.

65.   Lone Star Park officials want the track to be viewed as another sports franchise in North Texas, and Johnsen said the track is well on its way.

66.   Many small towns now look at skating rinks as an economic development initiative, the way larger cities view professional sports franchises.

67.   Long before Frontiere owned the Rams, they had established a standard for the carpetbagging sports franchise.

68.   Middle class suburban America hates nothing so much as losing a local major league sports franchise.

69.   Mike Bianchi, a columnist for the Florida-Times Union, points out that a decade ago Florida had only two pro sports franchises.

70.   Maybe it applies to sports franchises, too.