1.  For Kenan, the saddest part of coming to England is leaving his mother and father behind.

2.  As it is, the saddest part of their experience was that Tiger the cat fell overboard and was lost.

3.  But the saddest part is we are heading toward a kind of mediocrity.

4.  Perhaps the saddest part is that I have tried, with some degree of success, to whip myself into shape these past couple of years.

5.  The saddest part is that the fighters, those great figures of bygone days, have been replaced by mere puppets for promoters like Don King and Bob Arum.

6.  The saddest part of her story is how the Onassis marriage led her, and her admirers, into a constant but impossible fantasy of reclaiming former glory.

7.  The saddest part of all, of course is what might have been.

8.  The saddest part of the whole tawdry Knight affair is the shadow it casts on other coaches.

9.  The saddest part, he said, will be the absence of weddings at the top of the grand staircase.