1.  Defensive slipups and costly home runs have eroded some of the Giants' confidence, on the eve of their biggest series of the season.

2.  Denver did everything to let Atlanta stay in the game, but on the Falcons' next two series, Chandler threw interceptions.

3.  Defining "classic" as a measure of literary merit has been a persistent and recurring theme in this series.

4.  Cuba raced away from Brazil in the deciding set Thursday night with a series of spectacular 60 mph spikes.

5.  Cuban is among the guests who'll participate in a series of panel discussions about the future of sports programming in the digital age.

6.  Cuban officials said the five were only the last in a recent series of attackers trained abroad.

7.  CUC's bread-and-butter is a series of databases that help almost 40 million customers buy products from cars to plane tickets to dinner, mainly over the telephone.

8.  Derek Jeter and Williams, the twin Mr. Octobers who vanished and were only a combined 1 for 12 in the series, reappeared in the eighth.

9.  DeGeneres is one of the few standup comics who got a TV series to completely turn away from live performing.

10.  Del Mar's Pacific Classic, the series' climactic race in '99, isn't on the new schedule.