41.  Kobe making free throws, and a great defensive effort by a few people.

42.  Playing their first game since Radja underwent season-ending knee surgery, they turned in a sturdy defensive effort.

43.  Riding a defensive effort better than police vests stopping bullets, the Bulls completely flattened the Jazz.

44.  Sadly, neither Del Harris nor his replacement, Kurt Rambis, could coax a dependable defensive effort out of the Lakers last year.

45.  So is defensive effort.

46.  Spree or no Spree, however, Pitino said he expects the usual staunch defensive effort from New York.

47.  Still, the Celtics need to improve their defensive effort to be successful.

48.  TCU showed a defensive effort that had been missing.

49.  That is how the Connecticut Huskies describe those moments when their defensive effort creates the pace they seek, when an opponent is being overwhelmed.

50.  That was one of three Oakland errors, and they stood in stark contrast to a near-perfect New York defensive effort.