21.   Card issuers must look askance at the success shown by such sports figures as Dan Marino, Dan Dierdorf and Jim Palmer in pitching home equity loans.

22.   College and professional sports figures are increasingly bringing God, Allah and Buddha into the sports arena.

23.   Companies that have endorsement deals with sports figures rarely suffer permanent damage when their athlete of choice is knocked out of action.

24.   College and professional sports figures who have allegedly been involved in acts of physical abuse against women.

25.   Costas will also interview a sports figure each week.

26.   Cordero is merely the most recent example of a high-profile sports figure accused of abusing his wife or partner.

27.   Curiously, the stylebook says to drop courtesy titles for sports figures.

28.   Dan Duquette, the most draconian general manager of the era, became the most vilified sports figure in the region.

29.   Discrimination, of course, knows no color barriers, and any sports figure whose insensitivities become public should be chastised.

30.   Elite sports figures earn elitist salaries because the public demands the top level of performance on the diamond, the field, the court.