1.   As they begin the final weeks of their college careers, they remain gentle giants who stand guard over separate basketball kingdoms.

2.   At this underwater retreat, a glass wall is all that separates guests from the gentle giants and their fishing buddies.

3.   A bear of a man himself, actors seem to find him a gentle giant whom they can trust.

4.   A gentle giant in spirit and outlook, that was my father.

5.   A mother in Somerville is allegedly slashed by a gentle giant whose sheepish, downcast eyes dart about like the child he is.

6.   A three-second violation, an offensive foul and a walk left this gentle giant looking young and humbled in the belly of the Garden.

7.   Brian is more a gentle giant, a bit of a computer geek.

8.   But for many he was the prototypical gentle giant.

9.   But there is another side to the gentle giant -- a softer, more private side that over the last three months has kicked in big-time.

10.   But Wednesday night in the Meadowlands, there was only the gentle giant holding his daughter in front of the cameras.