41.  As badly as Bryant has been feeling of late, this constitutes progress.

42.  As badly as he feels on the one hand, that's how great he feels, too.

43.  As badly as the Cardinals are heaving baseballs toward home plate, the Astros found a way to do it worse.

44.  As badly as the Jets played against the Dolphins, it was, as Kotite insisted, only one game.

45.  As badly as the NFL wanted to reclaim the nation's No. 2 TV market, it couldn't crunch the numbers.

46.  Deutsche Bank again came to the rescue, though executives at Commerzbank complained they had been badly misinformed by both the company and by Deutsche Bank.

47.  Darrel says, "Trying to farm at night and work all day for somebody else, it's worse than a living hell."

48.  Despite some fallen trees and snapping overhead lines, most of San Francisco was not badly affected.

49.  Dave Righetti, the Giants' pitching coach, said Estes had broken away from the worst pitching habit of his youth.

50.  Dickson Concepts Inc. has been badly hammered because of the Asian recession.