21.   Amanda wants to play like Cindy, and Cindy grew up wanting to play like Larry Bird.

22.   And everybody in the NBA has flashes of playing like Mike, sometime.

23.   And for a while, the ACC co-champs played like underdogs, falling behind early against seventh seed North Carolina State.

24.   And Arkin, simply but with the full force of that realization, plays him like he never had any illusions to the contrary.

25.   Anaheim was playing like the noncontending team it was supposed to be, then awoke with a rush toward the top of the AL West.

26.   And both the New York Rangers and the Philadelphia Flyers played like it.

27.   And he has played like it.

28.   And he sometimes plays like every weekend golfer.

29.   And his Rat Pack days often played like a parody of a Mario Puzo novel.

30.   And I think we played like it.