1.   Tournaments provided opportunities for practising some of the arts and skills of war in common.

2.   The tournament provides the mouth-watering prospect of top continental sides Sporting Lisbon and Real Sociedad playing against Newcastle and Middlesbrough.

3.   And the tournament will provide enough pressure to make even the best players wilt.

4.   But the visibility that the tournament provides to a college is worth much more.

5.   For Illinois and Wake Forest, who played in the first game, the tournament provided early indicators of what type of season they might have.

6.   The NCAA field hockey tournament provided Susannah Schott with a pleasant homecoming.

7.   The Lapchick tournament should provide its usual easy walk through.

8.   The tournament might provide partial relief.

9.   The tournament provided a stage for the US to prove itself and to prepare for the World Cup, starting in June in France.

10.   Through the years, this tournament has provided as much drama as any on the PGA Tour, and that is one thing that should not change this year.