11.   A lot of us get excited by slam dunks and blocked punts.

12.   A lot of people who found it easy to believe that a young black athlete was a cocaine user thought this trial was a slam dunk for Mudge.

13.   A modest tax reform package based on reduced marginal rates should have been a slam dunk.

14.   A slam dunk would be possible if maybe a half dozen teammates hoisted him up to the hoop.

15.   A stutter-step one way and then a cut back in the other direction to take an alley-oop pass from Robert Horry for a slam dunk.

16.   After last weekend, that does not look like a slam dunk.

17.   But Doherty said it was not a slam dunk that he would leave Notre Dame once Carolina called.

18.   But in the inexact science of recruiting, this group is as close as it gets to a slam dunk.

19.   But lately, sports coverage has been delivering marketers more air balls and fumbles than slam dunks and touchdowns.

20.   But the on-court transition for Wolters has been a slam dunk.