111.   Generally, high-payroll NBA teams like the Sonics hope to break even with regular-season revenues and make their profits in the playoffs.

112.   Have younger and improved teams like the Indiana Pacers and the Orlando Magic positioned themselves to overtake New York?

113.   Great teams like Nebraska play their best every week.

114.   Good teams like the Sonics can be defeated in the playoffs.

115.   Growing pains are inevitable for a team like the Patriots, a team nearly devoid of championship caliber talent when Parcells arrived three years ago.

116.   Having the opportunity to beat up on a team like Cincinnati should take some of the sting away.

117.   He has received interest from teams like the Washington Redskins and the Kansas City Chiefs, but the talks always disintegrate.

118.   He jabbed his old team like a fighter, landing punches, dancing away, playing to the crowd, rearing back for the occasional overhand to the temple.

119.   He landed Steve Nash, the kind of whippet point guard a team like the Knicks, so devoid of post-up players, sorely needs.

120.   He said the manager never says nice things about him, even though Bonds has carried the team around like an overloaded backpack.