1.   Baker, who has had back-to-back bummer years for the Sonics, is practicing with the team, lifting weights, and doing conditioning drills.

2.   But the control did not help Newton in the conditioning drills yesterday.

3.   Hackett also stressed that Soward missed nonmandatory conditioning drills.

4.   He suffered through every type of masochistic conditioning drill strength coach Bill Gillespie could invent.

5.   In a opening-day tradition, Riley put his players through a strenuous conditioning drill called the width test.

6.   Kicker Adam Rendon, who has been suspended indefinitely after missing conditioning drills, might return in the fall.

7.   Smith returned to practice, while Irvin did some conditioning drills.

8.   That happened a few years ago when a Sylmar player suffering from asthma was having a difficult time during a conditioning drill with fellow linebackers.

9.   The Cowboys do conditioning drills during the first part of practice.

10.   They take shape with offseason conditioning drills and with behind-closed-doors practices in which important lessons are learned from simple drills.