1.   After the five-game losing streak that began the night Charles Barkley went down in Philadelphia, the Rockets have played well.

2.   He placed her on the living room couch and they began their night together.

3.   Hughes began the night in fourth place and ended up in first after unleashing two triple-triple combinations.

4.   The Knicks had time to pull themselves together and reclaim the edge they had when they began the night.

5.   The Lakers began the night a half-game behind the Sacramento Kings and needed a Clippers win at Arco Arena to retake first place in the West.

6.   The Reds, who began the night last in the NL Central, won for the first time in five games this year on the West Coast.

7.   The success of that move proved to NBC that it did not have to begin a night with a show that appealed to children.

8.   Training camp begins Wedensday night, with rookies, quarterbacks and some veterans due to report to the steamy, desert hell known as Rocklin.

9.   What a way to begin the night.

10.   While caterers prepared canapes for the galas that began Sataurday night, mothers and other activists around the city began trying to get their messages out.