1.   - Arizona State basketball Coach Don Newman brought a special guest to his weekly media briefing on Tuesday.

2.   Cheney won wide praise for his no-nonsense media briefings leading up to and during the Gulf War.

3.   Curiously, Switzer took the occasion of his Monday media briefing to toss a bouquet in the direction of his offensive line.

4.   For the first of two media briefings, Rick Pitino stood before the self-help shelf.

5.   Frogs head coach Dennis Franchione found himself pleading for a little perspective in his postgame media briefing and rightly so.

6.   In a media briefing late Sunday, Duquette made no reference to his talks with Houston.

7.   In addition to the Vaillant study, a number of other findings on alcohol were announced Tuesday at an American Medical Association media briefing in New York.

8.   It was the proprietor of the weekly media briefing for the eight previous years, and the person most responsible for Newman being where he is today.

9.   Law met his Boeing counterpart for the first time last week at a media briefing.

10.   Later in the day, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice indicated at a media briefing that Fox making his remarks in public was a surprise.