21.   Espy has a knack for scheduling trips and appointments in cities where sports teams are competing in playoffs.

22.   Finally, his team will compete in an Olympics on American soil.

23.   For the first time in history, Cup teams will compete in back-to-back restrictor plate races at the Talladega Superspeedway and the Daytona International Speedway.

24.   Four-person teams will be competing in identical International One Design sloops.

25.   For three weeks, while the Postal Service team competes in the Tour de France, Armstrong must be without one of his constant traveling companions.

26.   From there, the teams would compete in the spring in New Zealand and possibly in Brisbane, both hotbeds of rowing competition.

27.   Gordon compared the pimps to the NBA, noting that basketball teams compete against each other but are part of the same league.

28.   Good teams compete, as the Patriots did.

29.   He believes if the players will accept such a system, the widening gap between the haves and have-nots will narrow enough to allow every team to compete.

30.   He determined to pursue his Utopian vision of a league founded on parity, one where all teams could compete as equals.