41.   Atlanta is an expansion team but it can be a great team and I can be a part of this future.

42.   Baltimore Ravens owner Art Modell was recently quoted as saying expansion teams were given too many benefits to be competitive.

43.   Barkley plans to own a piece of the Diamondbacks, the expansion major league baseball team that the Valley has been granted.

44.   Baylor just accomplished the unprecedented, turning an expansion team into a playoff qualifier in three seasons.

45.   Baylor was bitter after being fired last season by the Colorado Rockies after taking an expansion team to the playoffs during three of his six years there.

46.   Because of his experience in the NFL and his knowledge of what it takes to coach an expansion team, he became even more attractive to McNair and Casserly.

47.   Besides talent, the expansion teams had to consider the age, salaries and injury history of available players.

48.   Because of this exodus, the Giants are widely forecasted to shrink back into the pack and scrap with an expansion team, the Arizona Diamondbacks.

49.   Being an expansion team is not necessarily an excuse.

50.   Between six and eight NBA franchises, including the Dallas Mavericks, have expressed interest in being connected with those expansion teams.