1.   As part of the indoctrination, cults try to isolate prospects from family and friends who might give alternative opinions.

2.   Asian talent is emerging, as prospects from Japan and Korea become available.

3.   Baseball holds a three- to four-day seminar each season, but only for the top two or three prospects from each club.

4.   Bobby Thomason, a promising quarterback prospect from southern California, could hardly have been blamed for hedging on whether he should attend Columbia.

5.   But what about the next wave of prospects from California?

6.   Carole Black, president and chief executive of Lifetime Entertainment Services for the last three years, says she builds in those prospects from the beginning.

7.   Carlos Guillen, the highly touted prospect from Houston who came in the Randy Johnson deal, takes over at third after missing most of last season with injury.

8.   During the recent scouting combine in Indianapolis, a Jets trainer was examining the knees of a young prospect from Weber State whom he knew little about.

9.   Ferguson first noticed Kenney on film when he was scouting prospects from Florida.

10.   Gillick was obviously prepared to make the moves and Bonilla and Wells were linked to any number of fishing expeditions involving blue-chip prospects from other clubs.