21.   Hall even has to bum a ride home from a studio musician.

22.   Hart head coach Mike Herrington was too involved in the game to realize what he had just seen, but on the bus ride home he reflected.

23.   He described the details of how she attended a gathering of teen-agers and ended up accepting a ride home from Kelly, a champion high school wrestler.

24.   He said a couple of teammates told him on the plane ride home from Houston Saturday night that they heard he or Hobbs might be traded.

25.   He would call home and discover that she had to leave work early or had blacked out on the train ride home.

26.   He takes AC to and from work every day but Friday, when he admits to patronizing the BART commuter trains for the ride home.

27.   In his truck, a hand-rolled Cuban cigar awaits the ride home to Fort Pierce.

28.   In that case, any trips in addition to the ride home Tuesday night would be effectively free.

29.   It also gives visiting teams a head start on the long bus rides home, so players can be in bed before sunrise.

30.   It did not last, and the bus ride home up the New Jersey Turnpike was bound to be a silent and long one.