21.   The trade still is expected to be completed because all other teams have backed off.

22.   To expedite the trial, the Gore team backed away from an earlier proposal to move all the disputed ballots to Tallahassee.

23.   Why would a team ever back itself into a corner over a player with as much upside and value as Edmonds?

24.   With one pivotal game left -- the SEC championship game on Saturday -- several teams can back a claim to play in the Rose Bowl.

25.   Within a few days, the One Australia team was back sailing, but on their older boat.

26.   He flirted with the idea of signing with Orlando or Miami, but both teams backed off.

27.   Hundreds of army conscripts, backed by teams using heavy equipment, were dispatched Thursday to the hardest-hit neighborhoods.

28.   Last week most Dutch professional soccer teams backed the KNVB decision to establish the new sports channel.

29.   Neither team is backing down from the kind of emotion that ignited the last game, which began with three technical fouls.

30.   The team backed its coach.