21.   After winning the national title last year, Trenton State has won its first seven games this season without allowing a goal.

22.   Brett Favre is going to play the whole season without Vicodin?

23.   Burdensome contracts and a bare minor-league system presented little roster flexibility and challenged Evans to be creative in building a competitive team for this season without damaging future ones.

24.   But after two long seasons without reward, the Huskies have exulted in their return to the postseason.

25.   But even when the Aggies have been bad, they have been good, running through their Southwest Conference schedule for the last four seasons without a loss.

26.   But he has not let the curtain fall on this season without a rousing finale.

27.   But in the history of this league no one ever has gone through a season without missing at least one field goal attempt.

28.   But it would be a mistake to leave the holiday season without a review of those merry travelers from Congress and the Cabinet.

29.   But Kansas will head into the season without Vaughn, who could miss all of December.

30.   But the Rockets won the title last season without those luxuries.