1.   Rivera had a chance to play major league ball last year, and in a pennant race yet.

2.   Also, the Rangers are in a pennant race, and the Cowboys were playing at home the next day.

3.   Among the things baseball fans were cheated out of last year -- along with some terrific pennant races -- were some stirring personal quests.

4.   And even independent observers wondered what the Dodgers are thinking by bringing and keeping him here in the middle of a tight pennant race.

5.   And he must overcome all the Dodgers players who have dragged the team out of the pennant race.

6.   And there is the idea that if the Giants are in a pennant race, it will work against Bonds.

7.   And who has had more of an impact on a pennant race than Wakefield?

8.   And you thought a pennant race was going to be fun?

9.   Are these the last six days of the pennant race, or the last days of Pompeii?

10.   As Joe Torre watched his team build a double-digit lead in July he wondered how it would respond in September as the noose of a pennant race tightened.