81.  Hambrick, entering his second NFL season, is the closest thing to a lock outside of Nguyen.

82.  Hammond was the closest thing to a country club among public schools, and there was a definite class division when the new school opened.

83.  He may have been born into the closest thing America has ever had to a Royal Family, but he had the lucky gift of having no illusions.

84.  He grew up in southern San Antonio, where the closest thing to public transportation during his youth was a guy giving his friends a lift on his tractor.

85.  He had found the closest thing he knew to a utopian, race-neutral place.

86.  He is also the closest thing either the Clinton administration or its Republican opponents have to a strategy for replacing the failed policy of containing Saddam Hussein.

87.  He is the closest thing to a rebel that Japan has.

88.  He is, in these post-Edwin Moses days, the closest thing that track and field has to money in the bank.

89.  He was the closest thing resembling a Flying Frenchman on either side.

90.  He won the bulk of the pre-awards, and seems the closest thing this year offers to a unanimous favorite.