1.  Any self-respecting baseball historian knows the names by heart, and almost invariably rattles them off so quickly it's as if the five men had one name:

2.  Any snow and sleet will quickly change to rain along coastal areas from Virginia to southern New England.

3.  Defensively, they were lively, doubling Baker in the post and rotating quickly to prevent the Sonics from having clean shots at the hoop.

4.  Deputy Finance Minister Oleg Vyugin acknowledged that such a loan could help "ease the situation very quickly."

5.  Denisova quickly opened up an eight-second lead over the Romanians, who fell way back.

6.  Defiant followers of the outlawed Falun Gong spiritual movement tried to mount a protest in Tiananmen Square Monday but were quickly detained by the police, according to witnesses.

7.  Cuban exiles quickly ridiculed the survey, asserting that no poll taken in a country where free speech is curtailed can be accurate.

8.  Cuban quickly dismissed any notions that he would be a hands-off owner.

9.  Cuban's critics around the NBA, be they people involved in the league or media, have once again quickly dismissed his latest verbal ramblings.

10.  Del Debbio said Tuesday that the events occurred quickly: "I fired my weapon," he said.