11.   Bird went through a shooting slump in the three games before Wake Forest, a subject of minor controversy.

12.   Bird went to the polling place at Gowana Junior High School, on the sprawling Shenendehowa campus, to cast her first ballot ever.

13.   Bird went against his pledge Friday and ordered the Hack-a-Shaq defense.

14.   Bird went back to Florida where, Carlisle reports, he may incomprehensibly be the champion at his golf club.

15.   Birds go where the food is.

16.   Biologists feared that the bird would go extinct and started collecting chicks and eggs for captive breeding programs.

17.   Bird went on to write that after the game he asked Kite for the ball, but Kite would not give it to him.

18.   Bird went skidding on the seat of his pants past the Celtics bench and out of bounds.

19.   Bird went to the Cleveland Clinic, where he was treated and released for what was described in the police report as lip wounds and loose teeth.

20.   But they are intelligent, as birds go.