Much of the rest of the league has its nose pressed against the playoffs window, with little chance of playing meaningful games past Valentine's Day.
Through the first two rounds of these playoffs, the windows in the press box at Busch Stadium were left wide open, even during the colder nights.
That Tim Duncan miss and missed tip-in it was like what they say about a hit post in overtime in playoff hockey: A window into an alternate world.
It had been three years since the Lakers won a playoff series, and Bryant's window for winning a fourth title was shrinking.
We rush to wait in the perpetual line at the ticket window for the playoffs, the series, the championship or the closed-circuit version of same.
Page A24 Sports JETS LEADERSHIP DIVIDED On Coming Patriots Encounter The Jets' quarterback, Brett Favre, and coach, Eric Mangini are staring through the same window at approaching playoffs.
The last time we saw something new from Windows 8 was way back in September, when the Red Sox were still in playoff contention and when Microsoft released a Developer's Preview of Windows 8, available for potential app designers to download, tinker with, and hopefully write some programs for.
Limping into the playoffs, looking out of sync and lost at times, Houston was a window into his team yesterday.
When baseball's playoffs were canceled by a strike a few months later, it seemed that hockey's window of opportunity was wide open in October 1994.
Soon, Cablevision went to war with Fox, and Philadelphians got to enjoy high-definition playoff baseball coverage while New Yorkers huddled under blankets with transistor radios and shouted score updates between tenement windows.
