11.   But will a pennant and a world championship banner ever flap in the brisk Puget Sound breeze?

12.   Championship banners are commonplace in many sports arenas.

13.   Does Nellie have any idea how lost a division championship banner would be, physically and symbolically, inside the cavernous American Airlines Center?

14.   Even the four Stanley Cup championship banners were missing.

15.   Every day when they practice at Memorial Coliseum, they see the six national championship banners hanging on the walls.

16.   Even the championship banners and retired jerseys hanging high above the Staples Center floor were fresh-off-the-sewing-machine new.

17.   For years, Auerbach has openly mocked the Bruins for hanging division championship banners from the rafters.

18.   Four championship banners hang from the nearby rafters.

19.   Forget Jordan, Pippen, Rodman and company, whose six championship banners hung overhead.

20.   Happiness is different around the Yankees, with all the championship banners and the monuments in center field, the echo of history still booming under the eaves.