1.   As it is, the site committee will have done its narrowly-defined job by picking the best possible place for the football team to play.

2.   A convention site advisory committee will pick finalists, and party leaders will visit sites.

3.   But Menino mistakes them for the DNC site committee.

4.   Denver will hold its lovefest for the site advisory committee on Thursday night, a short stroll from the Boston soiree.

5.   In the meantime, members of the two site selection committees are getting the red-carpet treatment from the potential hosts.

6.   It was clear that the Olympic site slection committee had again rolled the dice with Nagano, and just made it under the wire.

7.   Members of the site selection committee were presented with binders comparing the bids, and the comparison gave Boston supporters some hope.

8.   Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge spelled out the strategical importance of his region in pitching Philadelphia to the Republican convention site selection committee, former Mayor Rendell recalls.

9.   Sims is on the Democrats site advisory committee and another local official, Seattle City Councilwoman Martha Choe, is a member of the Democratic National Committee.

10.   State party chair Joan Menard was elected president of the Association of State Democratic Chairs Friday, and Menard is also on the site selection committee.