21.   Whatever the game lacked, the Patriots at least made a contest of it in the third quarter.

22.   What this game really lacks is hyperbole.

23.   Yet the game is not lacking for drama, at least with the Dolphins.

24.   A game already lacking stars lost another one.

25.   But the Sunday Tribune lamented that the game lacked the atmosphere of the All-Ireland gaelic football finals.

26.   Not that this game lacked in proper dramatics or a suitably spectacular finish.

27.   Sampras, on course for his fifth Wimbledon title in six years, said the game lacks rivalries, personalities and NBA-type marketing.

28.   The American, known for his outbursts on court, has said the game lacks personalities because few players risk showing emotion.

29.   The game lacked the level of electricity normally found at an NBA Finals, the celebrity studded crowd acting as relaxed and casual as the Lakers played.

30.   What the game lacked in scoring, it made up for in acrobatic tackles and dives and their accompanying bumps and bruises.