51.  Robitaille clearly is the most popular player on the team and with the Kings eighth sellout at Staples Center on Sunday, that counts for something.

52.  Sabean is right when he says that losing with a popular player is still losing.

53.  Sojo is a popular player, a steadying presence, but he batted only once in the first two rounds.

54.  Some popular young players at the Knitting Factory, like Ori Kaplan and the Gold Sparkle Trio, are dual citizens of rock and jazz.

55.  Smith, a popular player and steadying influence in the locker room, had been a contender for the starting job.

56.  Still, you would have thought it would have made an exception Tuesday night for its most popular player.

57.  Such unrelenting views, along with a brooding temperament, have made him a fixture but not a popular player in Albany.

58.  Strahan is the most popular player on the team now and the important player the Giants have had since Lawrence Taylor.

59.  That attitude is an element of his personality that attracts fans to him and makes him the popular player he is in Seattle and elsewhere.

60.  That was when Regier and the Sabres gave up on Pat LaFontaine, the captain and most popular player.