41.  Any piece of art with a flag in it is going to generate some kind of response, mostly because the flag itself is art.

42.  Any pint that tests positive is withdrawn before it can pollute the blood supply.

43.  Defensive Player of the Year: Wallace.

44.  Defensive Player of Year Leading candidates: Seattle's Payton, Atlanta's Dikembe Mutombo, Miami's Mourning and the Suns' Clifford Robinson.

45.  Defensive players can try to strip the ball from Williams at any time in practice.

46.  Defensive players positioned within a yard of the line of scrimmage will no longer be able to flinch to draw an offensive player into an illegal procedure penalty.

47.  Defensive positioning _ similar to but smaller than the moves made last year by Fidelity's flagship fund, Fidelity Magellan _ accounts for the lag.

48.  Defensive slipups and costly home runs have eroded some of the Giants' confidence, on the eve of their biggest series of the season.

49.  Defensive stocks, which do well regardless of the economy, also gained.

50.  Defensive survival would seem to depend on when those two step on the field again.