11.   The blend of pitching and hitting, established icons and rising stars, is breathtaking.

12.   The competition starts at the youth level, particularly the summer tournaments and camps for rising high school stars.

13.   The general manager looks at these clubhouse celebrations and sees contracts, free agents, aging veterans, rising stars.

14.   The mighty dwell in the West these days, evident by the standings, conference records, number of dominating players and rising stars.

15.   The Williams sisters are rising stars in tennis.

16.   They also mingled with Mexican gang members who were rising stars in the cocaine business.

17.   An inexperienced rising star when he took charge, he has been accused of groping for popular positions and zigzagging from one idea to the next.

18.   For years, its rising pop stars have fled for bigger markets in Moscow or in the West.

19.   In their place are rising stars Juninho, Savio, Edmundo and Roberto Carlos.

20.   Jamelli, Marcelo Passos and Carlinhos are rising stars on a potent offense.