11.   As one playoff win in the last three seasons suggests, the talent has not.

12.   Baseball the last two seasons has sought some emotional momentum with Sunday prime-time games for ESPN, to almost no avail.

13.   Before Piazza re-signed, Shea Stadium had pretty much belonged to Valentine for much of the last two seasons.

14.   Bennett spent the last three seasons as an undersized fullback but one with good ability as a pass receiver.

15.   Bishop has started every Giants game the last four seasons.

16.   Bob Davie, the head coach at Notre Dame for the last five seasons, understands better than anyone in recent memory the pressures of the job.

17.   A backup to John Stockton in Utah the last five seasons, Eisley is expected to push Mavs incumbent point guard Steve Nash for the starting spot.

18.   A major league source said the team will decline to exercise his option, which makes Wakefield a free agent after spending the last six seasons with Boston.

19.   A New York schoolboy legend at Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens, Anderson has played for four teams the last three seasons.

20.   After all, it is this right arm that led all of the major leagues in outfield assists for the last two seasons running.