11.   Major League Soccer has been criticized for adding two teams despite declining attendance and questions about the quality of play.

12.   Of course, now that Johnson is taking cortisone shots for a painful lower back, Loville was back running with the starting team despite tendinitis in his knee.

13.   Rodman is a selfish, immature and perhaps unstable person who puts his own eccentricities ahead of his team despite the prospect of an NBA title.

14.   She wound up riding to the game with his parents, after the coach made Ricky ride with the team despite his broken arm.

15.   The Broncos still feel good about their team despite a quarterback controversy and the possibility that linebacker Bill Romanowski could face felony charges and NFL suspension.

16.   This time, disappointment would come a few weeks later when she was left off the Kenyan Olympic team despite having just beaten Roba, the reigning Olympic champion.

17.   This year, LeMay missed the Olympic team despite his second-place finish at the trials because he did not meet the Olympic qualifying time.

18.   Pat Rafter believes Mark Philippoussis will fit right back in to the Australian Davis Cup team despite ongoing friction between him and the rest of the squad.

19.   Asked if Sandelin was fitting in with the team despite being a bit eccentric, European captain Mark James took exception to the premise.

20.   Back in the team despite splitting with his wife, Thorpe is determined to resume his international career.