21.   As a quick study and eager newcomer, Stith earned a spot in the starting lineup just five games into the regular season.

22.   As poorly as the Giants played, they were in the game well into the fourth quarter.

23.   Baseball needs a presence like his to take the game into the next millennium.

24.   Baseball wanted the biggest possible audience, and there would have been programming complications if Fox had tried to shoehorn baseball playoff games into Fox Sports Net regional lineups.

25.   Benjamin came to the plate with two outs and pinch runner Damon Buford at third but struck out to send the game into extra innings.

26.   Bibby did it by deftly molding a team that had basically never played a game together into a cohesive unit.

27.   A former editor of Esquire turns to everything from lessons to books to physical therapy to lift his so-so golf game into respectability.

28.   A new coaching generation is turning students of the game into sons of the game.

29.   A potpourri of familiar faces will bring WNBA games into living rooms across America.

30.   A lob to Abdur-Rahim failed, sending the game into overtime, where the Knicks took control.