21.   According to Abrams, at the time of this season finale, the ratings were the highest ever, the show having successfully rebounded from its sophomore slump.

22.   Adrian Fernandez, who trailed de Ferran by six points entering the season finale, has his Patrick Racing Ford in ninth place.

23.   After the season finale in Boston, Cowens announced in the locker room he would no longer coach.

24.   After having a pin surgically inserted, he missed four games, then decided to play in the season finale.

25.   All NASCAR Winston West Series driver Brendan Gaughan needed to do was finish seventh in the season finale at Irwindale Speedway on Saturday to clinch his second consecutive championship.

26.   But after missing the season finale against the New York Giants with a pulled hamstring, he could be vulnerable to a bad step.

27.   But after this smashing season finale, SFB faces a crisis of California earthquake proportions.

28.   But in the season finale in Anaheim, they sounded exactly like the more outspoken fans who inhabit the Sports Arena.

29.   But the greatest disappointment, Eberharter said, came at the end of that season, when Eberharter led downhill standings entering the season finale.

30.   But UMass upended Louisville Saturday in the season finale for both teams, once again playing some of its best basketball against one of its toughest opponents.