1.   Every night he goes to work out with the other gym rats.

2.   And the television infomercials, in which he plays a wide-eyed gym rat or a regular-guy product pusher, pay handsomely but remain a sideline.

3.   As a player, Donovan was a gym rat.

4.   Bush once told a friend that he was a gym rat because he was afraid that his inner fat boy might come out.

5.   Even the gym rats in San Francisco are restaurant fanatics.

6.   Growing up in Watts as the youngest of nine children, Harris was more interested in raising pigeons than becoming a gym rat.

7.   He knows that Ernie DeGregorio is the all-time gym rat, and that Marvin Barnes once went after teammate Larry Ketvirtis with a tire iron.

8.   He has become the ultimate gym rat, a hoops vagabond, something of a mystery, and now, to some, a nuisance.

9.   He is a gym rat with a purpose.

10.   He smiles every day when he walks into Conseco Fieldhouse, the New York gym rat in the ultimate Hoosier gym.