41.   How will four separate and fundamentally distinct sports franchises fare under homogenous leadership?

42.   How could the business futures of two sports franchises reverse so dramatically?

43.   His touching paean to the family-owned sports franchise reminded us that, well, there are families and then there are families.

44.   I was playing with the most famous sports franchise in the world.

45.   I want to be a cheesehead because the Packers are the only major pro sports franchise in America that is community-owned.

46.   If every sports franchise was stocked with a Bobby Phills, there would be no talk of surly attitudes, back talk, trash-talking or locker-room lawyers.

47.   If you have any doubts about this, visit the South Bronx, where the most profitable sports franchise in America, the New York Yankees, reside.

48.   If the owners of sports franchises can become mercenary, if the players can be that way as well, why not the fans?

49.   If anything, the NFL ought to pay L.A. for the privilege of harboring another pro sports franchise in the second-largest television market.

50.   In a world where pro sports franchises are populated primarily by arrogant jerks, overpaid crybabies and self-indulgent prima donnas, the Rockets stand above the crowd.