41.   Is this one of the great championship runs in sports history?

42.   It became the most famous sound bite in sports history.

43.   It represented the greatest number of suspensions for gambling in collegiate sports history.

44.   It was a galvanizing moment in sports history and in the civil rights movement.

45.   It has been called the most lucrative Internet deal in sports history.

46.   It will still be important to me, but overall, my niche in sports history just got a lot smaller.

47.   It would become the longest work stoppage in major professional sports history.

48.   It is the biggest incremental hike from one year to the next in franchise history, and surely one of the biggest such increases in American sport history.

49.   It is the third-largest TV rights package in professional sports history, behind the National Football League and the National Basketball Association.

50.   Its appointment with destiny was canceled by a less talented group from Raleigh, N.C., in a defeat considered one of the darkest moments in Houston sports history.