101.   These days, the most recognizable players leave after their first and second years, making it difficult for the NCAA to cultivate stars.

102.   They circled the wagons late Sunday night, about the time the last necktie was knotted and the last player left the Raider locker room.

103.   They left the Los Angeles Sports Arena the way a novice card player might leave a game of high-stakes poker, feeling more lucky than good.

104.   This comes at a time when some basketball players leave universities as sophomores to join the pros and college teams get shoe contracts and television deals.

105.   This has been a horrible camp for Belichick, who now has had two prominent players leave the team without word.

106.   Three players left school.

107.   Twenty-one players still left, and time to get serious.

108.   Two players left Rutgers to join their old coach at Illinois.

109.   Unhappy players leave college programs all the time, usually with bench splinters evident in their posteriors.

110.   Until recently, few Italian players left the country to play, because the Italian championship has been considered the best and richest in the world.