41.   Rick Brown is a sports writer for The Ledger in Lakeland, Fla.

42.   Ricky had been a sports writer.

43.   Richman started as a sports writer, but maintains that anyone with a decent palate and confidence can be a food critic.

44.   Some sports writers dared to link his name with the Heisman.

45.   Sports writers east and west of the Hudson are suddenly debating the issue like health care.

46.   Sports writers, worldwide, take the lead in disreputable dress.

47.   The mayor has denied having had a romantic relationship with Lategano, who left City Hall last May and married Nicholas Nicholas, a sports writer, in February.

48.   The late New York sports writer Red Smith was asked once if it was hard to write a daily column.

49.   The stadium here is the only one I know that was named for a sports writer, Jack Murphy.

50.   The U.S. Open co-leader confirmed his plans to a predominantly male audience of sports writers.