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January 19, 2004

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100
Approximate number of contestants in the Paris-Dakar rally who were stopped at the Mauritania border by armed guards demanding a $64 passage fee to enter the country.

$30 million
Amount of scholarship money Gateway proposed to give USC and LSU for a one-game football playoff, an offer nixed by the NCAA.

32
Points (111-79) by which Jeff Van Gundy's Rockets beat the Knicks, the largest winning margin by an NBA coach in his first game against a former team.

$500,000 Annual
compensation for 14-year-old D.C. United forward Freddy Adu, making him the highest-paid player in MLS.

18; 224
Age in years and days of Panthers forward Nathan Horton, who became the youngest NHL player to score on a penalty shot.

15-0
Combined score by which Raptors 12th man Robert Archibald beat center Stanley Roberts in three games of one-on-one shortly before the team declined to offer Roberts a contract.

0-0
Score achieved against Zimbabwe by a group of impostors claiming to be the visiting El Salvador soccer team.

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