1.   By defeating Texas Tech last weekend, a hungry UNT team finally compelled teams to take them as a serious threat.

2.   Knight inherited a basketball team hungry for a change after four straight losing seasons.

3.   Neither Lathon nor Houston traffic was going to stop a hungry Giants team this week.

4.   That team was the Texas Rangers, and Wednesday night Valdes showed why teams hungry for pitching are willing to take a chance on him.

5.   They are not a hungry team.

6.   This, then, was a hungry team battling its way into the playoffs against a contented team already there, a team already looking ahead to January.

7.   With only two weeks remaining in the regular season, the Lakers are exhibiting all the earmarks of a hungry team ready for the playoffs.

8.   With an equally hungry Villanova team awaiting them Sunday in Philadelphia, it will be interesting to see just how the Huskies do that.

9.   Talk about a hungry team.

10.   The Suns swept five games with Portland and have a team hungry for a title.