21.   I want all of you guys to play hard, from the first game until the last game.

22.   If only Spike could be held hostage in the Garden after a Knicks game until the ice is exposed and the Rangers appear.

23.   In fact, Tarpley did not enter the game until the second quarter.

24.   In fact, the BCS ranking looks prescient when you consider what happened to three teams that were in the race for the title game until the final week.

25.   It had been a largely uneventful game until the ninth.

26.   It was a close game until the fourth quarter.

27.   It was a sluggish game until the third quarter, when Bryant took over.

28.   It was many years ago, before the college draft was moved from two weeks after the final game until late spring.

29.   It was a thrilling game until then.

30.   It was a dull game until the finish, no better than Ruiz-Holyfield III.