71.   Nike just has a better roster of sports figures to promote them.

72.   Nine sports figures have received the award, including Jesse Owens, Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Ashe.

73.   Nor did Gingrich mention sports figures, who are sometimes honored and admired for their athletic prowess regardless of publicly exposed misconduct and crimes that would ostracize lesser mortals.

74.   Nine percent of boys named a sports figure.

75.   Not even Unhappy Endings practice runs with Shawn Kemp and Rick Mirer could have prepared one for the exodus of franchise-defining sports figures currently at hand.

76.   One of my pet peeves in sportswriting, and among sports figures, is the use of war terms to describe sports contests.

77.   One of its hottest products has been the bobblehead sports figures that were the rage last summer.

78.   Only three times in its history has the Des Moines Register devoted a special section to a sports figure.

79.   Other tidbits will include interesting information about stars, sports figures and perhaps TV guide information, all viewable in a window on the TV screen.

80.   Others look for cartoon characters, or tiny frames with photos of actors, politicians and sports figures.