71.   One of those standards involves playing his best in big games.

72.   Part of what happened here Sunday can be attributed to parity, part on a deficient defense and part to a lack of readiness to play its best.

73.   Parker also reminded Bates that he always has played his best in the biggest games and big games were ahead.

74.   Replacing Dent, who probably has played the best of any of the four free agents signed in the off-season to bolster the defense, will not be easy.

75.   Seles certainly needed that combativeness because she did not play her best down the stretch.

76.   September marks the time of the baseball season when the difference between pennant contenders and pretenders can come down to whether the best players can play their best.

77.   So having your friends and family around gives you something extra, some incentive to play your best.

78.   So we were really disenchanted with him at a time when we were playing our best.

79.   So what happens to Duke, which is playing the best of all of them?

80.   Sometimes it drives you to play your best, and other times you start thinking about it, and it brings you down.