71.   Los Angeles dropped six games behind the Diamondbacks.

72.   Minnesota fell to fifth in the Western Conference playoff race last week after dropping road games to Seattle, Portland and Phoenix.

73.   Ottawa, which lost to New Jersey on Tuesday, has dropped back-to-back games only once this season.

74.   Rios, with his effortless looking strokes, then ran out the match without dropping another game.

75.   Seattle dropped six games behind California in the AL West and one game behind Kansas City in the wild-card race.

76.   Seles seemed in complete control after winning the first set without dropping a game, but the Frenchwoman recovered in the second to force the decisive third set.

77.   She went on to drop the game.

78.   Seattle, which has six games remaining, dropped three games behind Texas in the AL West race.

79.   Sanchez then became his own worst enemy, repeatedly dropping service games with elementary mistakes despite the higher quality of his tennis.

80.   Such changes come too late for ABC, which is dropping four games from its six-game MLS package because of poor ratings.