1.   Anaheim will pick third behind Detroit and Philadelphia when the draft begins Tuesday in New York City.

2.   Before the draft began, general manager Chris Wallace contacted Paul Pierce and Antoine Walker.

3.   But he will be on the minds of team officials, nonetheless, when the NFL draft begins Saturday.

4.   Either of the two can be scooped up by any NHL team when the draft begins this morning, although both players carry with them significant salary burdens.

5.   Every scout in America is looking for the next Lawrence Taylor, but this year they all are resigned to finding something less when the NFL draft begins Saturday.

6.   It will conclude on Friday with a joint declaration, a draft of which began circulating on Monday.

7.   Late last week, officials said, the draft began circulating.

8.   That was before the amateur draft had begun.

9.   The amateur baseball draft began Tuesday, and for the first time in recent memory, he is taking no part in it.

10.   The draft itself hardly begins to cover things for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays.