1.   After a woeful expansion season, the Browns might be hard-pressed to ignore a deal for several draft picks.

2.   Canadian teams Vancouver and Toronto are in their expansion seasons in the NBA.

3.   Previous expansion seasons had been marked by a significant increase in offense.

4.   Six years ago, as a much different Kings team was heading toward the Stanley Cup finals, the Ottawa Senators were completing a dismal expansion season.

5.   The Marlins tried to draw the Cuban community in the expansion season by signing Cuban native Orestes Destrade, but he was returning from Japan and lacked name recognition.

6.   The Yankees had hoped they would not be a part of the problems peculiar to expansion seasons.

7.   Those results followed the pattern established in previous expansion seasons.

8.   When even more pitchers are needed for an expansion season, teams scrap for low-priced marginal pitchers or rookies making the minimum.

9.   With offensive numbers typically exaggerated in an expansion season, everyone seems to be looking for relief.

10.   Even with expectations high for big totals in this expansion season, McGwire managed to exceed them.