11.   Make-or-break plays will take place with greater frequency until June, when the new NBA champion is crowned.

12.   Now, they are in the strange position of having to abandon the team that they believed was best and crown another champion for no reason other than politics.

13.   No, the nets they want droop from the orange rims at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis, where the national champion will be crowned next Monday night.

14.   So barring an event such as a crash, Armstrong most likely will be crowned Tour champion on Sunday on the Champs Elysees in Paris.

15.   The champion was not crowned.

16.   The CART drivers had come to the California Speedway to crown a champion, not to praise a fallen competitor.

17.   The excitement would build and a true national champion would be crowned on the field rather than in the polls.

18.   The leaves are falling, and baseball is close to crowning a champion.

19.   The Rose Bowl had crowned national champions five times before.

20.   Today is when the NFL champion is crowned.