31.   Jack Stallard is a sports writer for the Longview News-Journal.

32.   Kelly Carter is a Los Angeles-based sports writer for USA Today.

33.   Local sports writer Dennis Maffezzoli has become a trusted friend and a wheelman extraordinaire.

34.   One was a sports writer.

35.   Palm Beach Post sports writer Julius Whigham II contributed to this story.

36.   Outside a distribution plant in the China Basin section of San Francisco, a Chronicle sports writer named Tom FitzGerald was not thinking such dire thoughts.

37.   Only a few sports writers attended that first draft, sitting at tables with club officials and helping them make selections.

38.   Penn State is a Big Ten heavyweight, ranked fifth in the nation in The Associated Press weekly poll of sports writers and broadcasters.

39.   Outside a distribution plant in the China Basin section of San Francisco, a Chronicle sports writer, Tom FitzGerald, was not thinking such dire thoughts.

40.   Referees became intimidated by noisy fans, braying coaches, bloodthirsty sports writers.