1.   A U.S. version is due to debut this year.

2.   Gugliotta, Jones and Laettner will be making their All-Star game debuts this year.

3.   Part of the reason he stays in New York is to work with an off-off-Broadway theater group, Labyrinth, where he made his directing debut this year.

4.   The final acquisition was Serrano, a highly regarded pitching prospect from the Dominican Republic who made his big-league debut this year.

5.   The lightweight division makes its Olympics debut this year, competing on Lake Lanier, outside Atlanta.

6.   And then there was curling, a sport barely known in much of the world until its Olympic debut this year.

7.   Andre Agassi is seeded second in Monte Carlo, making his clay-court debut this year after dropping out of Barcelona.

8.   China makes its World Cup debut this year, playing its first-round matches in South Korea.

9.   He plays a policeman in the movie, and Hollywood debuts this year by Chow Yun-fat and Jet Lee have cast them as hit men.

10.   He created a sensation throughout the music world with his Philadelphia Orchestra debut that year, followed by his Carnegie Hall debut and an Avery Fisher career grant.