11.   At the winter meetings, two names that would give the Sox offense a huge boost may surface.

12.   Baseball basically killed the winter meetings after that season when they believed agents representing free agents were beginning to dominate all the winter talk.

13.   Bowden made his announcement at an unusual news conference at the winter meetings at the Anaheim Marriott Hotel.

14.   After making an offer to McLane, Randy Hendricks said he left the winter meetings in Nashville, Tenn., expecting to get a counteroffer from the Astros.

15.   After pledging he would not be traded, general manager Dan Evans admitted Sheffield had been offered to Oakland during the winter meetings.

16.   After six years of baseball dissuading big league clubs from attending the traditional winter meetings, it has brought them back.

17.   All that hard work and lack of sleep and food which Los Angeles Dodgers general manager Dan Evans spoke about endlessly during five days of winter meetings in Boston?

18.   Bush, who was twice elected governor of Texas, met with the governors when they gathered in Washington in February for a brief winter meeting.

19.   But Hart is also intent on exploring trade possibilities, indicating that was the original intention of the winter meetings.

20.   But the Big East coaches and athletic directors, who broached the subject at their annual winter meetings here, are considering a sudden-death system.