41.   --Take Shaq at the free-throw line in a tie game with no time left any day over Lindsay Hunter.

42.   That escape gave the Yankees life in what was by then a tie game.

43.   The Dodgers third baseman came back from a beaning in the fifth game to snap a tie game with an RBI single in the sixth game.

44.   The idea was suggested by Commissioner Gary Bettman in an effort to reduce the number of tie games and to discourage conservative play.

45.   The National Football League had not had a tie game in eight years, and now we have had two in seven days.

46.   The sense of urgency rivaled that of a tie game with two seconds left.

47.   The Suns ride a Paul Westphal virtuoso blitz into a tie game by the end of regulation.

48.   Tie game, maybe a timeout left per team and the game had a real flow.

49.   Wallace fouled Walker on purpose in a tie game with five seconds to play?

50.   Within seconds, a tie game became a four-point deficit.