41.   The Dodgers remained unable to rule out surgery as an option and several members of the organization said the best-case scenario would have Brown out for a month.

42.   The Mephistophelean scenario has a wonderful logic.

43.   The more likely scenario has Bird serving as a consultant from his Florida home.

44.   The new, revised worst-case scenario would have this losing linger through the weekend and on into the month of May.

45.   The preferred scenario has Louisiana Downs opening in early July and racing to November.

46.   The scenario had Hollywood script written all over it.

47.   The scenario has resonances with any number of doom-drenched Romantic and Symbolist dramas.

48.   The worst scenarios have the country riven by civil strife and US troops intervening.

49.   One scenario would have either man throw his support to the other if eliminated before the final round of voting in Moscow.

50.   One scenario has him coaching the Minnesota Vikings if Dennis Green leaves.