21.   In the old days, it was common for Texans to have nicknames.

22.   It began innocuously enough, with a media relations assistant asking a rookie point guard if he had a nickname yet.

23.   It showed two guys can talk civilly even if both have weird nicknames.

24.   It turns out that Enron was indeed rigging the markets, with schemes that had smart-alecky nicknames like Fat Boy, Death Star and Get Shorty.

25.   Just as they have no leader, the UCLA linemen have no nickname.

26.   Lennox Lewis himself has no nickname, in an occupation where sobriquets abound.

27.   Many years ago I lived in a little Georgia town where everybody who was anybody had a nickname.

28.   Maybe by this time next year, she, too, will have a nickname.

29.   Momma should have been more understanding since her half of my grandparents, the Parkers, all had nicknames.

30.   Michigan State alumni have nicknames for U-M, too, but none fit to print.