61.   Pete Carroll was a light load of poles for a long time, a skinny kid who was always the best athlete in his class but never the biggest.

62.   People admire our best athletes as moral exemplars.

63.   So not many people beyond the cozy confines of Spaulding Field know he is arguably the best athlete to grace UCLA since Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

64.   Taking Jefferson, the Nets believe they got the best athlete in the draft.

65.   That allowed the Redskins to get the player they wanted the entire time in Bailey, probably the best athlete in the draft.

66.   The best athletes, it turns out, are also scientists.

67.   The best athlete of the second half of the century was Brown.

68.   The best athletes should be at the Games, Samaranch said.

69.   The idea was to assure television and ticket buyers that the best athletes would be in the meet here.

70.   The long odds against even the best young athlete achieving a professional career have often been noted, of course.