71.   Residents of Bexar County, Texas, will vote on the controversial referendum on the same day the Spurs will open the season and raise their championship banner.

72.   Purdue opens its season with a loss to Southern California.

73.   Rangers open season with Juan Gonzalez in right field and with pitching rotation of Ken Hill, Jones, Kevin Gross, Bobby Witt and Roger Pavlik.

74.   Rangers open season with starting rotation of Kenny Rogers, Rick Helling, David Cone, Ryan Glynn and Aaron Myette.

75.   Saturday at Alumni Stadium, on a sun-kissed afternoon, the Eagles again opened a season against West Virginia.

76.   Shortly before that, he and his Ducks might open their season with two games in Japan.

77.   Sixteen straight defeats to open a season the front office helped hatch that way.

78.   So in the next week, as Memphis opens its season, Temple and old Calipari nemesis John Chaney will be a featured act on national television.

79.   So two weeks before Syracuse opened the season, I went to the training camp.

80.   So what is the big deal when the Jets open their season Sunday against John Elway and the Broncos in Denver?