1.   Another sports icon, Michael Jordan, is close to inking an exclusive Web site deal with SportsLine, according to Brandweek.

2.   Decades of separation and insulation long ago forced Staten Island to create its own historical pride and set of sports icons.

3.   Darden found himself shunned by the black community because he was prosecuting an African-American sports icon.

4.   He sees such switches in the traditional order as threatening to men who bask in the reflected light of male sports icons.

5.   The last sports icon to go so far for so little was George Foreman in his trip to Zaire.

6.   The NBA sells Michael Jordan, the most globally popular and seemingly untouchable sports icon of the television age.

7.   To Young, Lewis represents more than just the latest in a long line of Baltimore sports icons which runs from Babe Ruth through Johnny Unitas to Cal Ripken.

8.   What Martin did then was take advantage of his status as a sports icon.

9.   In a small state like New Mexico, there are few homegrown sports icons.

10.   Jordan and Bradley are friends, and that persuaded the sports icon to make his first foray into politics, the campaign said.