31.   Texas-Arlington softball player Cassie Brand walks the line between excited and bizarre each time she steps inside the pitching circle.

32.   That was the mantra for Cal State Northridge softball players as they went through a brutal February and March schedule.

33.   The pregame warmup for Toronto resembled a bunch of slow-pitch softball players loosening up on your local playground waiting for the umpires to show up.

34.   The season before, one softball player had used a soccer scholarship.

35.   The softball players made Columbus their home base, in between stops on a national tour, for three months before the Games.

36.   There on the hot sand court last weekend were three softball players outfitted in complete mariachi regalia.

37.   Then a friend, Univesity of Texas softball player Nikki Cockrell, suggested that Williams join her at Texas.

38.   This girl wanted me to come there, to Ohio, because she was a softball player and she wanted to share the wish with her whole team.

39.   UCLA will not release the names of the softball players whose scholarships were applied to soccer.

40.   When the Braves signed him, he was a softball player on the New Zealand national team.