21.   Recent games count more than earlier games.

22.   Recent games count more than earlier ones.

23.   Starting Tuesday, the games count.

24.   That these games count?

25.   That is, as long as he has another MVP-caliber year when the games really count.

26.   The game counts the hits and tabulates a score.

27.   The Nets said before Sunday that those games no longer counted.

28.   This may be summer and the games might not count, but Leslie Johnson was being given everything she could handle Tuesday afternoon.

29.   When the games counted, the veteran team led by Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith and Michael Irvin went on to win the NFC East.

30.   But the league clearly was concerned that once the games counted, small mistakes would be magnified.