1.   Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but Indiana, as author William Gildea says, is where the game matters most.

2.   But the weeks that followed showed just how much games matter in our society, how much we love to gather and celebrate our athletic heroes.

3.   For them, only one game really matters here now.

4.   If the Jets win, no other game matters.

5.   Imagine what it will be like when the games actually matter.

6.   In less than a month, the games will matter.

7.   Sure, these games matter.

8.   The bitterness sprouted because the games mattered.

9.   The game matters.

10.   The joint stood as a shrine to Larry Bird and Bobby Orr, to the days when the games actually mattered.