1.   Skipper Alan Kernaghan said the team would be looking for a top ten place next season.

2.   But science and scientists have been onstage all over the place this season.

3.   Decimated and unable to withstand injury, the Expos plummeted to last place last season.

4.   Detroit and Washington, which both finished next-to-last in their divisions a year ago, are in first place this season.

5.   First, there is Dottie Mochrie, a nine-time LPGA champion who already has a victory and a second place this season.

6.   Hollywood has been finding deep wisdom in the strangest places this season.

7.   If the super alliance were in place this season, Florida State would be playing Arizona State in an intriguing national-championship game.

8.   It appears the most eagerly anticipated college basketball game in New England will take place next season.

9.   It turns out, the rest of college football was playing for second place all season.

10.   It was even in place last season.