To capture st. louis try replacing shortpat with:
string shortpat = @">([^<]+)<";

Hello JP,

I updated the expression and tested it. I'm not sure what to capture where.
Maybe if you can describe the table row to me I could do a better expression.

Right now it captures as follows: team, quarter and the score (4x).

<tr[^>]*>\s*<td[^>]*>\s*<a[^>]*>(?<team>((?!</a).)*)</a[^>]*>\s*</td[^>]*>\s*<td[^>]*>(?<quarter>((?!</td).)*)</td[^>]*>(\s*<td[^>]*>(?<score>((?!</td).)*)</td[^>]*>)+\s*</tr[^>]*>

it results in a match that is built up as follows:

Match
+- Groups
   +- Team.Value "New Orleans"
   +- Quarter.Value "0"
   +- Score.Captures[0].Value = 10
   +- Score.Captures[1].Value = 0
   +- Score.Captures[2].Value = 0
   +- Score.Captures[3].Value = 10

My question now is... did I interpret it right?

Is the row built up of a team name, quarter number and 4 scores?

To explain the expression:

<tr[^>*>   Find a start of a row
\s* allow whitespace between <tr> tag and the first <td>
<td[^>]*> Find the first table cell.
\s* allow whitespace between <td> and <a>
<a[^>]*> Find the opening a href tag
(?team((?!</a).)*) capture everything you find from there to the </a tag
in a group named team.
</a[^>]*> Find the closing a tag
\s* allow whitespace between </a> and </td>
</td[^>]*> Find the closing td tag
\s* allow whitespace between </td> and <td>
<td[^>]*> Find opening <td>
(?<quarter>((?!</td).)*) capture everything from there to the </ta tag into
a group named quarter
</td[^>]*> Find the closing td tag
( start repeating group
\s* allow whitespace between </td> and <td>
<td[^>]*> Find opening <td>
(?<score>((?!</td).)*) capture everything from there to the </ta tag into
a group named score
</td[^>]*> Find the closing td tag
)+ end repeating group. If the named group in this repeating group captured
multiple times. The value scan be found in the Group.Captures collection.
\s*
</tr[^>]*> Finally make sure we've captured a complete row by finding it's
end tag.

Jesse

td>> <td width=""10%"" align=""center"" >3</td><td width=""10%""
td>>

td>> <td width=""20%"" align=""center"" >41</td></tr></table>";
td>>

--
Jesse Houwing
jesse.houwing at sogeti.nl

Ok, this should (will?) grab everything you're looking for and print
it out in order:

 static void Main(string[] args)
 {
   string html = @"<table border=""0"" width=""100%""><tr><td
width=""40%"">Team</td><td width=""10%"" align=""center"">1</td> <td
width=""10%"" align=""center"">2</td><td width=""10%""
align=""center"">3</td> <td width=""10%"" align=""center"">4</td><td
width=""20%"" align=""center"">Score</td></tr><tr><td width=""40%""><A
href=""/default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&page=nfl/teams/078.htm"">New
Orleans</A></td><td width=""10%"" align=""center"" >0</td><td
width=""10%"" align=""center"" >10</td><td width=""10%""
align=""center"" >0</td><td width=""10%"" align=""center"" >0</td><td
width=""20%"" align=""center"" >10</td></tr><tr><td width=""40%""><A
href=""/default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&page=nfl/teams/
071.htm"">Indianapolis</A>?</td><td width=""10%"" align=""center"" >7</
td><td width=""10%"" align=""center"" >3</td><td width=""10%""
align=""center"" >14</td><td width=""10%"" align=""center"" >17</
td><td width=""20%"" align=""center"" >41</td></tr></table>";
   string contents = null;
   string tdPat = "<td[^>]*>(.+?)</td>"; // grabs everything between
<td>...</td>
   string innerTextPat = ">([^>]+)<"; // grabs innermost non-html

   Regex tdRegex = new Regex(tdPat);
   Regex innerTextRegex = new Regex(innerTextPat);

   foreach (Match m in tdRegex.Matches(html))
   {
     contents = m.Groups[1].Value;

     Console.WriteLine(contents); // will include <a href="...">TEAM
NAME</a>

     // the following will print out the team name w/o the hyperlink
     foreach (Match m2 in innerTextRegex.Matches(contents))
       Console.WriteLine(m2.Groups[1].Value);
   }
 }