51.  The Americans, losing their third straight match, have no chance of advancing.

52.  The Bundesliga club, currently fourth in the table, hopes Ewerthon can help them immediately after it went four straight matches this season without recording a goal.

53.  The European champions won its ninth straight match, both in the Bundesliga and internationally, to move a point clear of Kaiserslautern and Bayer Leverkusen.

54.  The match, which started three hours late because of heavy rain from passing Hurricane Iris, saw the Trinidadians winning their third straight match.

55.  The Rome squad, which has three draws in its first three Italian soccer league games, lost its second straight Champions League match Wednesday to French squad Nantes.

56.  The Sardinians, in eighth, have gone six straight matches without a loss.

57.  The Springboks suffered through a difficult period over the past several months losing four straight matches to New Zealand and also to Australia.

58.  The United States men, seemingly headed for a low finish in the inaugural Olympic curling tournament, won three straight matches to reach the semifinals.

59.  Top seed Yevgeny Kafelnikov struggled for a third straight match in the Austrian Alps on Friday before defeating unseeded Richard Fromberg in a quarterfinal match of the Generali Open.

60.  Yugoslav striker Radivoje Manic scored first for Osaka, helping his club win its fourth straight match.