21.   Six sports reporters from The Times were also cited for individual articles.

22.   Sports reporters can be a stodgy bunch, with eyes on the ball, not the colorful detail.

23.   Sports reporters like Lesley Visser, Keith Jackson and Chris Berman have appeared in commercials for diet pills and beer.

24.   Sports reporters are used to being treated like brown recluse spiders by pro athletes.

25.   Sports page reporters have been carrying the story, and well.

26.   The corporate sponsors, the sports reporters, the TV crews.

27.   The main benefactors of the early starts are deadline-pressed sports reporters.

28.   The NFL Friday Night Party will be thrown for football personnel around the league, corporate sponsors, a horde of sports reporters, and special guests.

29.   The Rev. Donald Shriver Jr. thinks that too many newspapers have devoted more time to training sports reporters than they have to training religion reporters.

30.   The Times story cites sports reporters Lesley Visser, Keith Jackson, and Chris Berman as journalists who have appeared in ads.