11.   Brianne Stepherson was agog, stunned by the throngs of deafeningly devoted fans with Husky paws painted on their cheeks and the glint of success lighting their eyes.

12.   But an agile troupe of canine athletes continues to draw devoted fans with its paws-itively high-powered acrobatics.

13.   By playing from October to the brink of summer, the National Hockey League has tested the attention span of even its most devoted fans.

14.   College sports also are for the Grannies, for devoted fans of all ages.

15.   Devoted fans deluged the network with calls, letters, e-mails and general threats of mass hysteria.

16.   Devoted fans of the group will never want to leave.

17.   Dorothy Dunnett, a Scottish historical novelist whose weighty works about Renaissance life attracted swarms of devoted fans in the United States, died on Friday in Edinburgh.

18.   Devoted racing fans know this.

19.   Even his most devoted fans would finally come to terms with the fact that Elvis is really dead.

20.   Even for devoted fans, the band leader and guitarist Bob Mould was a sound before he was a sensibility.