31.   Its scouts are people like Brianna Lam, who lives in an elegant Upper East Side apartment that is tastefully furnished with antiques and early American oil paintings.

32.   Ketner made good on his opportunity, and it appears most scouts have been willing to forget about his dreadful senior campaign.

33.   Most of it consists of polished, sophisticated blues because this is what Mercury Records scouts were after.

34.   NFL scouts are no less enamored of him.

35.   Not all scouts are as gregarious.

36.   On the day National Football League scouts were to work out players from USC, Johnson was nowhere to be found.

37.   Scout was this scrappy little kid, and he let her be herself.

38.   Scouts have been very impressed with his puck-handling abilities, which have been compared to those of New Jersey netminder and two-time Stanley Cup winner Martin Brodeur.

39.   Scouts must be able to separate fact from fiction in stories they hear.

40.   Scouts are scouts.