11.   Entering the weekend, they each had hit six home runs.

12.   Entering the weekend, just four points separated the three teams still in the battle for the fifth playoff spot behind Phoenix.

13.   Entering the weekend, only Charlie Batch of Detroit had been knocked down more than Bledsoe.

14.   Entering the weekend, the best race in baseball was in the National League Central, where the top three teams were just one game apart.

15.   Former teammate Jaromir Jagr of Pittsburgh, meanwhile, had no goals in eight games entering the weekend.

16.   He entered the weekend with just five home runs.

17.   He enters the weekend ninth in the NHL with nine goals.

18.   However, with two rounds left, nothing has been finalized, and a host of players entered the weekend with a legitimate chance to win.

19.   It had won nine medals in biathlon and dominated the bobsled and luge events entering the weekend.

20.   Knight and Marbury entered the weekend ranked seventh and eighth, respectively, in assists.