31.   He commands the Commissioned Corps Readiness Force, an elite Public Health Service team that responds to emergencies.

32.   Hersh, an investigative journalist, says in the book that an elite American team penetrated deep into Iraq before the war and kidnapped several Iraqi soldiers.

33.   How did they stack up with other elite teams?

34.   If we can do that we can challenge the one really elite team in this league, which is Chicago, and if not we will fall back.

35.   Instead of doing the little things the elite teams do, the Patriots did the deadly things the almost-elite do.

36.   It appears, however, that the elite teams are starting to regain their advantage as the season moves along.

37.   It was one of the worst performances with a season on the line by a supposedly elite team ever.

38.   Keeping Williams, Kittles and Van Horn could enable the Nets to be one of, and remain among, the elite NBA teams for the next decade.

39.   Knocking off an elite team like Cincinnati is just the sort of thing the Bruins do.