41.   The Rockets are doing to Orlando exactly what they did to three ostensibly superior teams before them and, as a result, are now prohibitive favorites to repeat.

42.   The superior teams can bounce back from misfortune.

43.   The Yankees had the superior team, but Showalter was prepared, his decisions worked and he accomplished his goals.

44.   The Yankees, the vastly superior team so far, will live and breathe to hammer Baltimore.

45.   There will be pressure on the Mets to emerge from their deepest slump of the season against a superior team in enemy territory.

46.   They are a superior team, a team that has a chance to win five games in a row for the first time in five seasons.

47.   They might not be so fortunate against a superior team.

48.   This epiphany, this moment when the Knicks realized what a superior team they were, did not arrive until the fourth quarter.

49.   When the Minnesota Vikings have entered the Trans World Dome this year, they have transformed themselves from a superior team into a subpar one.

50.   Which is why they played with the kind of heart that forced a series against a clearly superior team to reach six games, and nearly seven.