71.   Instead of looking sculptured and interesting, emulating an ancient tree in the wild that leans and twists toward the sun, mine wound up looking ... spindly.

72.   It seemed every forward wound up playing a shift with every other forward, and defenseman Rob Cowie even saw duty up front at left wing.

73.   Jones was up three balls and no strikes in the second, but wound up taking a third strike to end the inning.

74.   Like Bill Gates and Michael Dell, Larry Augustin spent his spare time in college toying with computers and wound up starting a company that made him a zillionaire.

75.   Last week, for example, he took in a pole for repair and wound up purchasing three new ones.

76.   Luxury cars are the ultimate big-ticket gift item and a few wound up in metro Atlanta driveways this week, testimony to a year-end rally by the auto industry.

77.   Maddux returned to form against the Marlins, though a Rafael Furcal error wound up costing him two runs in the first inning.

78.   Mark Martin wound up winning, his fourth victory of the season, to move into third place in the Winston Cup point standings.

79.   Mickelson hacked out of the gunch and wound up making a bogey, he thought.

80.   McCain took his case into the teeth of the gale and wound up losing the Republican nomination.