11.  Frahm played with West regional most valuable player Richard Hamilton in his face most of the day.

12.  Or at least so say analysts who, with a steady drumbeat, pound home the idea that regional players will be marginalized or absorbed.

13.  Otherwise, Wolf said, US Airways would shrink to become a regional player.

14.  Papandreou also gets credit at home for making Greece more of a regional player.

15.  Otherwise, the Bruins landed all the regional players on their most-wanted list.

16.  Roberds, a regional player, fell into bankruptcy and is in the process of liquidating all its locations.

17.  Several regional players are gearing up to do just that, says Kerri Goodman, publisher of Seattle-based Coffee Talk magazine.

18.  Since those talks ended, Clinton has been in contact with other regional players.

19.  Still, BellSouth is the dominant regional player and competitors complain about the difficulty of going up against the former monopoly.

20.  Sprint too has national presence as a provider of telecom services, while BellSouth is a regional player.