1.   Bradley declined to speak with reporters both Saturday night and Monday, but there is no place to hide once the games start.

2.   But many are in hiding, refusing to declare until exhibition games start.

3.   --Jon Casey ... no, truce, at least until the games start.

4.   Once the preseason games start and young quarterbacks struggle, the DeBergs and the Simmses may find buyers.

5.   When the games start, then you learn if you have a hole here or a hole there that has to be filled.

6.   With time to kill before the evening sports games start, the copy jockeys are laid-back, joshing each other and rehashing the in-house Ultimate Frisbee competition.

7.   You can enter the Fiasco by sending a completed bracket via snail mail, fax or the newfangled Internet before the games start Thursday.

8.   He had said the projects would take off in three phases with intensified efforts six months before the games start in September.