This stimulation comes in the form of peskiness.

Hewitt, for his peskiness and 23 aces, is not ready to take Sampras's mantle.

But you don't have to read very carefully to pick up on a certain amount of aggressiveness, and maybe downright peskiness, in Bogdanovich's approach.

Mr. Tartaglia shoulders his expanded burden well, giving a performance that doesn't stint on the boy's peskiness and oddity.

In eight terms of representing suburban Indianapolis, Mr. Burton, who is 58, has stood out more for peskiness than clout.

Colin Campbell, the Ranger coach, said of Verbeek: "We're looking for some peskiness, some fire.

The technical difficulties to be overcome, given the primitive state of film and the peskiness of both sports officials and Goebbels's bloodhounds, make for breathless reading.

As part of his "peskiness," Ott learned and memorized offensive phrases in other languages to strategically annoy his opponents on the ice in a language they could understand.

And Switzerland's peskiness aside, we're probably all spinning our wheels until Sunday, when the United States and Canada will meet on a rather different hockey night, in Canada.

Except for the continuing peskiness of the Queen, the plan unfolds and seems to be running smoothly as No. 6 and the Rook assemble the components needed to build a crude radio transmitter.

And Mr. Zoffinger, using an Italian-American expression, said he took solace in the notion that he got a better deal "from being a skootch," attributing the Giants' eventual concession on the more than $6 million dollars in rent to his peskiness as a negotiator.

They blitzed the Mavs the same way they did the New Orleans Hornets in Round 1, with a dizzying array of Chauncey Billups' leadership, Carmelo Anthony's clutch play, Nene's unmatched post presence, Kenyon Martin's toughness and Dahntay Jones' peskiness.