41.   Missouri would get no closer.

42.   Northridge, however, would get no closer.

43.   Phoenix would get no closer after that.

44.   Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette got his closer Monday.

45.   She started out six shots behind Webb and never got any closer.

46.   Slowed by a stroke, apparently strapped financially, she can get no closer to the world outside her small house than through a TV screen.

47.   So, the two early favorites of the day, Skip Away at Belmont Park and Touch Gold at the Meadowlands, may not get any closer than that.

48.   Temple was able to cut its deficit to eight points midway through the second half, but could not get any closer.

49.   Ten years passed, and until today, Brown never got any closer.

50.   Temple could get no closer as Duke regained control.