1.   A ragged game gives the Yankees life, and when blood is in the water, no team circles like the defending champions.

2.   Pitching had dominated a ragged game until the late innings.

3.   The precise passing in a half-court offense that carried them past Cleveland was gone, replaced by a ragged game at the park.

4.   This was a ragged game and an aesthetic nightmare because of the lines and discolorations on the field left over from a football game.

5.   This was another ragged game for the Revolution, but they displayed resourcefulness after falling behind, then gambling with an all-out attacking scheme in the second half.

6.   The ragged game featured six technicals and two flagrant fouls.

7.   The third quarter typified the ragged game.

8.   When the noon lunch bell rings at the Duksoo elementary school in downtown Seoul, the boys dash into the dusty yard for a ragged game of soccer.