11.   Elite players are taking the sport more seriously on the high school level, too.

12.   Everywhere you look, the story is about old faces coming back rather than new faces taking their sport to a new level.

13.   Folks in these parts probably take their sports too seriously and life is harsh for those who fail to live up to expectations in the local arenas.

14.   For some of my colleagues, Rome was too aggressive and too in-your-face for those who take their sports seriously.

15.   Gerberich says professional bowlers are already taking the sport beyond what most people perceive as its limits.

16.   Has their success on the court prompted young African-Americans to take the sport seriously?

17.   He and partner Kristina Lum took the sport to places it has never been, and introduced possibilities seldom dreamed.

18.   He has taken the sport to a new level, running the best horses in the world at tracks across the country.

19.   He has taken the sport to new widths.

20.   He wore out George Foreman in Zaire, and he took the sport of boxing to new levels and far-away places.