1.  A team sloughs off familiar players as easily as a pine tree sheds bark.

2.  But DeLuca is a familiar player to the NCAA, school administrators and coaches.

3.  He became an increasingly familiar supporting player, slowly getting better roles in better films.

4.  In the eight new franchises, nobody could predict the dynamics of older players and younger players, familiar players and relative unknowns.

5.  Instead, balloting on Sunday seems likely to produce a new period of confusion and jockeying among familiar players.

6.  Kalb names a host of familiar players in the sorry saga, but he singles out two individuals for special reproach.

7.  Look quick if you want to see the most familiar players on both teams tonight.

8.  Most players familiar with Jordan think the Chicago superstar will retire.

9.  Shawn Burr and John Cullen also are familiar players.

10.  That means the United States is going into the next World Cup with a mix of familiar players from Major League Soccer and the European leagues.