1.   In two weeks we will be entering the season of Lent.

2.   America has entered the season of the witch.

3.   And it was a better victory for a team beset by so many questions entering the season.

4.   And so it was that USC entered its season on Saturday afternoon, attempting to impress, but at the same time attempting not to screw up too badly.

5.   And to think there was so much optimism surrounding the Raiders as they entered the season.

6.   Beck refuses to blame his elbow for his late-season ineffectiveness, which left the Red Sox sufficiently alarmed to declare Derek Lowe the closer entering this season.

7.   Biffle, a former NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Series driver from Vancouver, Wash., said entering the season he thought the competition was going to be a little thin.

8.   Bernard Gilkey entered the season stressing the importance of staying on an even keel.

9.   Bostic has given the Jackets solid play at cornerback, a position at which Tech needed help entering the season.

10.   Both players passed on early entry into the NBA draft last year, and entered this season as All-America candidates.