21.   This team fights.

22.   Torre felt his team had fought, battled.

23.   Unencumbered by such foolish consistency, the Bush team fought for any and every vote.

24.   With four losses in their last five games, they have gone from a leading contender for a playoff spot to one of several teams fighting for a berth.

25.   Your team fights through the rain and the sleet and the turf and the spotlight and everything else.

26.   Practice space is scarce and some teams fight with the local pingpong league or Taekwondo class for floor space.

27.   A rejuvenated West Indies cricket team fought its way back into the World Series limited-overs tournament with a six-wicket victory over Pakistan on Friday.

28.   A rescue team fought through heavy snow Sunday and reached nine miners trapped for five days inside a snowed-in truck high in the Andes Mountains.

29.   A U.S. Special Forces team fought alongside an Afghan squad Friday, combining traditional guerrilla tactics with modern technology to knock out an al-Qaida machine gun nest.

30.   At the other end of the standings, three teams are fighting to avoid the fourth relegation spot.