31.   The face I saw at the end of the championship match is no longer overcast.

32.   The game everybody wants to win is the unofficial Asian championship match against China, which learned its chippy style by watching videotapes of National Hockey League games.

33.   The German government has also chartered a plane to take senior leaders and politicians to the championship match.

34.   The Lakers would lose that championship match by a point, and Chamberlain never forgave van Breda Kolff for the slight.

35.   The US will play either Jamaica or Mexico, who meet Thursday, in the championship match Sunday.

36.   The storm, which is later upgraded into a hurricane, has swished in just in time to jack up the excitement surrounding a heavyweight championship boxing match.

37.   The winner heads to Foxboro, Mass., for the MLS championship match.

38.   The World Trade Center observation deck was the site of the recent world championship match between Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand of India.

39.   There are only two games in the way of a national championship match between North Carolina and Notre Dame, the winners of the title the last two years.

40.   There is billiards on television, too, a replay of a championship match last November.