41.   Few American sports executives can claim the success of West, just as few Hall of Famers can claim the playing success of West.

42.   For years in big-time American sports, there has been little virtue in fan loyalty.

43.   For what we have here is nothing less than the best legitimate old-time rivalry in professional basketball, and perhaps in all of American professional sport.

44.   German native Kissinger said he was sometimes troubled by the nuances of American sports, conceding that he was troubled by the single-wing formation in football.

45.   Funny, but I had never previously heard American sports officials citing soccer as their role model.

46.   He called to tell her he was in Miami, at the home of an American sports agent, Joe Cubas.

47.   He believes the cyclical nature of Carribean and American sprinting success is intertwined with supply and demand rules that govern American scholastic sports.

48.   He pulled the plug himself on the most celebrated tale of perfect attendance that American sport has ever known.

49.   He is the right man in every way to own this most prestigious of all American sports records.

50.   His friends thought he was a bit crazy, playing an obscure American sport in a country better known for its soccer and rugby.