11.   The mood of the sporting public will turn to frustration, maybe.

12.   The sporting public has responded.

13.   The sporting public is thankful he has taken the job.

14.   The sporting public can only handle so much bile.

15.   Truth be known, the player most often pitted against McIlvaine by the sporting public, teammate Shawn Kemp, is not one of the detractors.

16.   We also must realize another professional sports league only means another fragmentation of an already jaded sporting public with diverse interests.

17.   What Thomas has achieved is a lot to ignore, but somehow the sporting public is managing quite nicely but wrongly to do so.

18.   The sporting public have no objection to their idols earning big bucks.