1.   As ready as Hackett is to get started, the Trojans are just as determined to erase the stigma of the past two years.

2.   Beating Holyfield, said Lewis, would erase the stigma forever.

3.   But the Notre Dame victory also erased a stigma around USC.

4.   Coach Jacques Lemaire wants to erase the stigma of the Devils being strictly a defensive team.

5.   He also erased the stigma of having previously lost all of his overtime playoff games.

6.   The championship erased the stigma attached to the program after crippling sanctions were levied for NCAA violations during the tenure of former coach Bob Wade.

7.   The idea was to erase the stigma of losing.

8.   But most important, Young finally erased the stigma he inherited by having the bad luck to replace Joe Montana.

9.   He dreamed about another two-run homer erasing the stigma from that bad throw.

10.   He erased that stigma last July by capturing the British Open at Royal Lytham.