1.   But Penn State won that game, and two weeks later Wisconsin handed Michigan its third home defeat.

2.   This is their third defeat at the hands of the world champions.

3.   SCARBOROUGH slumped to their third successive defeat against Maidstone to leave their season virtually in ruins.

4.   For the Whalers, it was their third consecutive defeat, their worst streak of the season.

5.   Glenn Healy, so valuable to the Rangers last season during a stretch when Richter was nursing a groin pull, took his third straight defeat.

6.   It was their third straight defeat, their most consecutive losses since they dropped four in a row last November.

7.   Not Behrens, who needed only to win the Classic to reaffirm his claim but instead ran seventh for his third straight defeat.

8.   So Vaughn locked the clubhouse doors after the third defeat and delivered a message to an all-ears team.

9.   The third defeat suffered by our absorbent president in this nadir of summits was about Chechnya.

10.   This was his third defeat in a row since his Santa Anita Handicap victory.