1.   The object of this was to make it easier to score goals, especially if teams hired goalkeepers who were narrower.

2.   The team hired a massive floating platform which was craned in separate segments into the dock.

3.   The Maclaren and Benetton teams had hired the circuit for testing.

4.   Another team will hire Crisp eventually, the way Washington hired former Ducks coach Ron Wilson and Phoenix hired former Washington coach Jim Schoenfeld.

5.   A Cardinals official said the team likely would hire a general manager and a coach if the coach came from the college ranks.

6.   A Swiss journalist who spends summers fishing in Montana made the unsolicited claim Sunday that the US national team should hire Blazevic.

7.   After Ochs met with her representatives, who liked his ideas, the team hired Jay Haverson, an architect who had worked previously with Ochs.

8.   But rather than waiting for the NFL teams to hire more blacks, the coaches say, they will look to colleges for coaching opportunities.

9.   But teams hiring agents for the front office has become a league trend.

10.   But the team recently hired Mike Tannenbaum, considered a salary-cap expert, to do that job.