21.   Reality has the Matadors running in catch-up fashion, struggling defensively, unfamiliar with many new faces and still in search of a leader to replace Derrick Higgins.

22.   Reality has to override cyberspace.

23.   Reality has to set in at some point.

24.   Some realities have no price.

25.   The players and the circumstances have changed, but that reality has not.

26.   There were a few points where reality had to be sacrificed for, well, imagery.

27.   Those harsh domestic realities have many investors nervous, notwithstanding the bullish macroeconomic indicators.

28.   Ultimately, though, reality has to set in.

29.   Virtual reality has nothing on this polished extravaganza, which looks like one big animated Christmas card.

30.   Whaley says this is one incident that was drawn from life, but reality has a way of pushing realism into melodrama.