1.  Articles ranged from the first Little League team in South Central Los Angeles to a San Fernando Valley secession effort.

2.  Defensively, the Rangers haven't fielded the first team.

3.  Denver obviously needs him next year if it hopes to become the first team in history to win a third straight Super Bowl.

4.  Despite reporting to the Lakers just last week, and with a surgically repaired right knee, Harper has been practicing daily with the first team.

5.  Daly admitted to talking to former Dodgers pitcher Orel Hershiser about returning to his first team.

6.  Despite the appeal of the "Seinfeld" second-stringers, not all of them can expect to be on the first team for advertisers.

7.  DETROIT _ With two rings in hand, the Wings might be the first team since the Islanders to win the Stanley Cup three times in succession.

8.  Detroit is the first team to repeat as champion since the 1991-92 Pittsburgh Penguins and the first to record back-to-back sweeps since the 1982-83 Islanders.

9.  Dierker, who was a rookie on the first Astros team to play in the Dome, agreed.

10.  Douglas worked out with the first team Tuesday, although Pounds returned to practice.