41.   Only two or three Braves players a year win a spot for the next season in the U.S.

42.   Outfielder Patrick Lennon is doing everything he can to win a spot on the roster.

43.   Plenty of workers are still waiting for creativity to win a spot on their company scales.

44.   Real won a spot only by virtue of its European Cup championship, a record seventh.

45.   Ramiro Mendoza needed to win a spot in the rotation.

46.   Sixteen players have earned opportunities to win spots.

47.   Somehow, in the midst of all its problems, the band wins a spot in a national competition at Albert Hall in London.

48.   Still, Bush seems to have won a spot on the speculation list.

49.   That was enough to finish ahead of Colorado in the BCS standings and win a spot in the Rose Bowl to play for the national championship.