1.   As an annual public service, we scour the sports calendar and find reasons to go on.

2.   It seems fitting to celebrate their sporting lives on this Super Bowl Sunday, the holiest day of the American sports calendar.

3.   It will play during the summer, the emptiest stretch in the sports calendar.

4.   The ABL has survived two years playing when the sports calendar is overcrowded, soldiering on despite a minimal marketing budget.

5.   The sports calendar requests an extra month to get everything on the air, but will settle for two weeks of audiences with time to kill.

6.   The terrorist attacks juggled the sports calendar.

7.   There is no month on the sports calendar so rife with declarations of love and loyalty, mostly for the sake of self-interest.

8.   There is surely not a sillier day on the American sports calendar than the Tuesday before the Super Bowl.

9.   This sports calendar is all used up.

10.   Understand that professional soccer is here to stay in America, and that the Krafts are determined to make it a fixture on our local sports calendar.