It is here where the team often revolves, where players come by for advice from the resident sage, where the catcher, Mike Stanley, for example, asks, "Hey, what've you got for me today?"

Town's team revolves around Glenn Hoddle he's having a fitness check in the morning.

This trait of Ewing's is as close to symbolizing the plight of the Knicks as anything else, since Ewing, as the center, is literally and figuratively the player the team revolves around.

This team will revolve around Cook the way Barkley was the center of St. John's team last season.

But the team revolves around its guards, Marchese (12.2 points) and the steady Nicole Dames.

Kidd, the All-Star point guard around whom the team revolves, is out indefinitely with a knee injury, but his hurt goes beyond the physical.

"He was the first to have a point forward," said Grunfeld, referring to when Paul Pressey was so adept at handling the ball that he had the team revolve around him.

Surely a successful team should revolve around the style that best suits the current players at it's disposal, regardless of previous styles decades ago.

The solution Wright and his team hit upon revolves around something called "procedural animation," a way for the game designer to model certain key behaviors - walk, run, grab, fight - without necessarily knowing anything about the basic body type of the creature itself.

As more and more fans become unable to make it to the arena and begin to realize that their team revolves exclusively around an economic bottom line, support for a team may wane.