1.   A distrust of the Northern national news media is systemic, although that is changing as national sponsors demand public relations.

2.   A start-up company with the intention of putting more computer and electronic technology into classrooms has pulled together a group of national sponsors to underwrite the effort.

3.   A start-up company with the intention of putting more computer and electronic technology into classrooms has assembled a group of national sponsors to underwrite the effort.

4.   Cavalli said the league plans to work on lining up more national sponsors and expanding its merchandising during the offseason.

5.   Chrysler Corp. is the national sponsor.

6.   ESPN gave its national corporate sponsors exclusive rights to hang their logos and banners at the games.

7.   In addition, the Theater League and its marketing advisers are seeking national corporate sponsors to subsidize more ambitious advertising efforts.

8.   It also brought baseball and Fleet Financial Group together in a deal that made Fleet the first bank to be a national sponsor of a sports league.

9.   It will also have more money, more exposure, more marketing and more national sponsors than the ABL, which ended its first season in March.

10.   Miller is so delighted that, depending on his record sales, Emilio might become a national sponsor this year.