71.   It is a given that the most talented team in any league fails to win, far more often than not.

72.   It was a crushing defeat for Kansas, a deeply talented team that was a consensus choice to win the national title.

73.   Italian rooters were in such a majority in the stadium, and had dared to cheer this talented team that was finally getting itself in gear.

74.   It was perhaps his greatest year of teaching, one in which he took a talented team and instilled in it an unquenchable, relentless passion.

75.   It will be a wild scene, no doubt, and the talented French team figures to overrun the South Africans.

76.   Jokes aside, the Broncos are the most talented team in the playoffs.

77.   Just about two months ago, USC coach John Robinson said this was his most talented Trojans team in his second stint as head coach.

78.   Laker haters had convinced themselves that this undeniably talented team was still too basketball-ignorant to be a substantial playoff threat.

79.   Kite knew the criticism would come, especially because the United States was generally believed to have the more talented team.

80.   Like Cox, Cleveland Indians manager Mike Hargrove presided over a talented team many said would win regardless of the manager.