11.   Many believed from the start that the star middle linebacker, who led the NFL in tackles last season, was innocent.

12.   Many of the players limited their choices to USC and Colorado before deciding, including USC star linebacker Zeke Moreno.

13.   New England might do the same with their star linebacker, Willie McGinest.

14.   Political candidates could run on promises to recruit a star linebacker or to make it to the Super Bowl.

15.   Prosecutors in Atlanta had accused the star Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis of complicity in the stabbing deaths of two men after the Super Bowl.

16.   Siemon is the daughter of Jeff Siemon, the former star linebacker of the Minnesota Vikings.

17.   --Troubled former New York Giants star linebacker Lawrence Taylor should be voted into the Hall of Fame Saturday.

18.   At another, Ravens coach Brian Billick was brash and accusatory with reporters, whom he knew were eager to interrogate his embattled star linebacker, Ray Lewis.

19.   Derrick Thomas, a star linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs, was seriously injured in a separate, one-vehicle crash.

20.   Derrick Thomas, a star linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs, was seriously injured in a separate, one-vehicle crash Sunday.