71.   Just what long-suffering Jets fans want to hear, the possibility that this season is going to be about character development, about next year.

72.   Jenkins said he would wait to see how this season goes before making a decision.

73.   Last year, after national-title talk emerged from the Bruins camp, the season went in the tank.

74.   Long after the Cardinals had won, thousands of fans sat in the stands, reluctant to leave, to let the season go.

75.   McGwire is not happy with the way the season is going because his team is not winning.

76.   Maybe that also explains why Rodman inexplicably swerved out of control just when it seemed this season was going to be one smooth ribbon of highway.

77.   Meanwhile, back in England, hardly a London theater season goes by without at least one and perhaps several productions.

78.   Most of all, though, as the season went on to this improbable point, it was Armstrong doing a good deal of the talking.

79.   Members of the Indiana Pacers planned to attend but wondered why they had to spend the airfare to watch the season go up in smoke.

80.   Never has a season gone over the edge without completion.