21.   Harper considered offers from a half-dozen other teams and retirement before deciding to join the Lakers.

22.   Holy Cross, the Patriot League champion, is the only other New England team to go.

23.   Houston, the only other team with competitive salary cap room, traded for Scottie Pippen.

24.   If they lost Friday night and the other two teams won, the Mets would be excused from any additional October games.

25.   If Evernham was able to pay more attention to the other two teams, it could give them a boost.

26.   In that same period, the Blue Jays are the only other team that has won as many as three division titles.

27.   In the NFL, the Cowboys and Bills are the only other teams with just one loss, and they have fewer victories.

28.   In the round-robin tournament, each of the eight teams plays the seven other teams.

29.   Las Vegas officials are expected to make their offer to the Dodgers, and the five other teams interested in moving there, by the end of next week.

30.   Like a deck of cards, the players were divided up and shuffled off to the other nine teams.