61.  National Hockey League players will compete in the Olympics for the first time in Nagano, Japan.

62.  National Hockey League players may be locked out as they fitfully try to negotiate a new labor agreement.

63.  Mullen downgraded the notion that the VW account pushes Arnold from a regional to a national player.

64.  National Hockey League players incur automatic suspensions for leaving the bench for an on-ice altercation.

65.  National Hockey League players, locked out for more than two months, have found another door shut.

66.  National player of the year Ruth Riley leads an experienced, steady lineup.

67.  North Carolina forward Antawn Jamison, The Associated Press national player of the year, kissed the Alamodome floor before he left the court.

68.  Not just anybody is wired to be a viable candidate for national player of the year and Mr. Congeniality.

69.  Not one of the teen-agers who are expected to be drafted ahead of Battier was a consensus national player of the year.

70.  Or Charles Woodson, the Michigan cornerback, who has already been named the Bronko Nagurski national defensive player of the year?