21.   After starting the final seven games of his freshman season at strong safety, Stephens barely got on the field the last two seasons.

22.   After starting the final seven games of his freshman season at strong safety, Stephens was a forgotten man the last two seasons.

23.   Allnut and Lowe spent most of the last five seasons in the A League, capitalizing on more lucrative contracts than the MLS offered.

24.   But even thinking playoffs in mid-February is refreshing after the last two seasons of despair.

25.   But injuries the last three seasons have made the Cincinnati Reds left-hander spend more time in the training room and in rehabilitation sessions than on the mound.

26.   But most voters will just look at the record and after the last two seasons KSU has enough name recognition to leap frog some teams.

27.   But it has been years since Galliano designed with a hand as free as he has during the last two seasons.

28.   But over the last two seasons that has all changed, with the early morning arrest serving as a catalyst for reflection.

29.   But it was not hard to accept for a Seahawk team that is eager to show its wounds of the last two seasons as a badge of its courage.

30.   But somehow they still managed to fight off their sixth straight match point over the last two seasons.