1.   Academic help In an effort to improve academic retention on the football team, ASU has hired former fullback Kelvin Fisher as the coordinator of academic accountability.

2.   Clawson made him a student coach, and the former fullback started up that day.

3.   Coaches are concentrating on trying to make Smith, a former fullback at UTEP, more elusive.

4.   Former Auburn fullback Tony Richardson is having an impressive offseason in Kansas City and could supplant Pro Bowler Kimble Anders as the starter.

5.   Gash listens when Maurice Carthon, the former Giants fullback who is his positional coach, tells him what he should be working on.

6.   He is drawing comparisons to the former Syracuse fullback Daryl Johnston of the Dallas Cowboys.

7.   It took the Cowboys no time to make a roster move after finding former Pittsburgh fullback Tim Lester on the waiver wire.

8.   Meggett was scheduled to receive an award in the Baltimore area Monday night, but former Patriots fullback Sam Gash was scheduled to make the appearance for Meggett.

9.   Parcells and the former Giants fullback O.J. Anderson were among the ceremonial coin-tossers at Super Bowl XXXV in Tampa, Fla.

10.   One thing that helps Rogers is having one of his best friends, former Oxnard fullback Chad Pierson, on the team.