1.   One week before their season opener, the Raiders acknowledged two painful slices of reality Sunday.

2.   Pitching coach Dave Wallace said that Radinsky still has time to be ready for the season opener.

3.   Woodson has been missing in action completely since tearing up his knee in the season opener.

4.   Although their incandescent glow from last season was more like a dull shine Tuesday night, they supplied the kind of season opener that belied their sluggish preseason.

5.   Amid great expectations in their season opener, this new class was that bad.

6.   Although Stewart failed to win the season opener in January, he led most of the race, almost lapping the field twice.

7.   Although unsold on the idea, they settled on an attack plan, and the defense was immediately overrun in the season opener.

8.   And in Chicago, the reigning MLS champions played their season opener on a spray-painted Soldier Field against Dallas.

9.   And in the season opener at Missouri, they lost tailback Hut Allred of Brownwood, Texas, late in the fourth quarter.

10.   And red on their faces after being shut out in the season opener.