1.   By never promising us Boy Scouts in the Rose Garden or Rotunda, the Democrats have little to lose in this ugly game.

2.   Essentially, though, it was another ugly game for the Yankees, another game in which they did not play crisply but still won.

3.   Even after struggling to finish the half, they came out like a confident team ready to take this ugly little game.

4.   It did not even matter that it was an ugly game.

5.   It was another ugly game for the Yankees, another game in which they did not play too crisply and still won.

6.   It was an ugly game.

7.   It was so bad last night that even Ben Grieve, the oasis of hope in a whole desert of painful reality, had an ugly game.

8.   It was an ugly game from the opening tip, and now it was slipping away.

9.   Monday night, the Vols put forth the lesser of two ugly games in the Fiesta Bowl and again found a way to win.

10.   Same ugly game.