1.   And the bulk of their scoring hopes will be pinned on the player regarded as perhaps the hottest property in hurling, D. J. Carey.

2.   At this point, the Red Sox are the hottest property in the history of team sports in the United States.

3.   Gossage plans to aggressively promote the BGN race as a one-on-one between Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr., the reigning series champion and its hottest property.

4.   Ken Griffey Jr., the hottest property on the market, remained too pricey a ticket, despite eight different offers alone between Seattle and Cincinnati.

5.   Only a short time removed from persistent predictions of their imminent demise, the broadcast networks have become the hottest properties in the media marketplace.

6.   The hottest property this early in the Democratic presidential sweepstakes has been Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina.

7.   The hottest property among the four imminent spinoffs is Riverstone Networks, which sells Internet routers and switches for large-scale networks, the kind that span whole cities.

8.   The hottest property in television news today neither looks nor acts the part.

9.   The hottest properties are prime view spaces.

10.   One by one, the men who changed the NBA from a roadshow featuring freaks of nature into the hottest property in sports walked into the spotlight.