41.   When Bob Dole announced his bid for president last week he got the loudest applause from his hometown crowd with a foreign policy line.

42.   Put him in front of the hometown crowd in the Western United States and he scored big.

43.   After fulfilling a dream by winning in front of his hometown crowd, Slovenian Jure Kosir says he is confident he can keep on winning.

44.   Although it may not have been the hometown crowd, cricket-mad Pakistan threw its full support behind Sri Lanka.

45.   And it was Capetonian allrounder Brian McMillan, playing before a hometown crowd, who ripped the foundations out.

46.   Felix Trinidad promised the hometown crowd an early knockout Friday night.

47.   Five Wizards scored in double figures to give first-year coach Leonard Hamilton his first victory as an NBA coach in front of a hometown crowd.

48.   Harrop, who has trained in Switzerland with Lindley for the last five months, said she enjoyed having a hometown crowd behind her.

49.   He rolled it in for his sixth birdie of the round, tipped his cap to a partisan hometown crowd and celebrated the end of his dry spell.

50.   I know with this hometown crowd, everybody will want to see me at midseason form.