1.   As Manager Buck Showalter is quick to assert, the teams are even in the loss column.

2.   A Suns win tonight would leave them just two games behind in the loss column.

3.   All even in the standing, two up in the loss column, was the gist of what he was saying.

4.   But a victory by the Knicks would pull them within four games of Orlando in the loss column.

5.   But at the moment it shows up only in the loss column.

6.   By the end of the day, one of the teams will wear this one in the loss column on their conference record.

7.   But with SMU only two games back in the loss column, Tarkanian approaches this three-game Texas trip warily.

8.   Despite their troubles, the Mavericks trail eighth-place Golden State by only three games in the loss column.

9.   Erased from the memory bank, if not the loss column.

10.   Heading into the weekend, the Celtics trailed eighth-place Charlotte by nine games in the loss column.