The 49ers only played four of their 13 non-conference games at home, but came away from the brutal stretch with plenty to show for it.

Taylor has endured a brutal 12-month stretch.

At no point in this brutal stretch had so much been riding on a single outcome.

The Liberty felt many of the discomforts of playing on the road today to punctuate a brutal frequent-flier stretch.

It had been 27 days and 11 games, a brutal stretch of defeat and depression that had not produced a single triumph.

Then came a brutal stretch of the Cataloochee Trail in North Carolina.

It is all they can do as they stare at a brutal stretch of games.

But by early January, with tourists gone and local theatergoers staying inside during a brutal stretch of weather, the production's sales grew increasingly weak.

New York is in the midst of a brutal stretch in which plays 10 of its first 13 games on the road.

But the Nets have also just concluded a brutal stretch in which they played 8 of the last 10 games on the road.