11.   Gentry wanted to start Odom at point guard sometime in the exhibition schedule.

12.   Gino suggests a two-game exhibition schedule, with the final game two weeks prior to the regular-season opener.

13.   He was first slowed in spring camp by a bad back, then missed most of the exhibition schedule with a sprained knee.

14.   He said this week he expects to be ready for the last few games of the exhibition schedule.

15.   If he waits until July for surgery, that would place his return as late as mid-November, wiping out training camp and the entire exhibition schedule.

16.   In his first spring with the Seattle Mariners, Derek Lowe pitched only one inning the entire exhibition schedule.

17.   Johnson tried a comeback the following season but called it off after the Lakers completed their exhibition schedule.

18.   Los Angeles Clippers coach Alvin Gentry hoped to use the exhibition schedule as a time to experiment with his young roster.

19.   Mussina, who will start for the Yankees when they open their exhibition schedule against the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday, is hardly running out of time.

20.   Other split-squad games have disappeared from the exhibition schedule.