11.   Spencer returned to the dugout grinning broadly, but the fans would not let him sit until he acknowledged their cheers once more.

12.   Then Kemp, too, mounted the podium, and the candidates and their wives acknowledged the cheers of the hall.

13.   When Atlanta fans recently gave him a standing ovation, he refused to leave the dugout to acknowledge the cheers.

14.   With the crowd screaming for him, he finally returned to the field briefly and, in typical fashion, raised a clenched fist to acknowledge the cheers.

15.   With their two children, Elizabeth and Margaret, they stepped out to acknowledge the cheers.

16.   Players acknowledged cheers as they left the United aircraft and immediately boarded four buses, which whisked them to their hotel in suburban La Jolla.

17.   Ankiel playfully acknowledged the cheers with a wave of his cap.

18.   Belfour did not acknowledge the cheers.

19.   Howell acknowledged the cheers by signing hundreds of autographs, often putting his signature on OSU caps.

20.   Instead of waving goodbye dramatically to the crowd, he halfheartedly lifted one arm to acknowledge the cheers as he trudged off.