31.   The numbers still say the Rangers could be sipping champagne as early as this weekend.

32.   The VIP room at Cobalt was full that night, with celebrities like Lewis and former Atlanta Brave David Justice sipping champagne while surrounded by beautiful women.

33.   They had thought they would be sipping champagne at some point during this road trip.

34.   They stare into space, smoke cigarettes and sip champagne as makeup artists stroke layers of foundation and color onto their faces.

35.   This is a sleeker, faster, more versatile and far more lovable team, and soon it will be sipping celebratory champagne again.

36.   When the team should have been sipping champagne, they found themselves gathered instead at the hospital to comfort Hofmann.

37.   You think Hank Greenberg was thinking about the All-Star Game while he was sipping that champagne?

38.   A famous picture shows Marilyn Monroe sipping champagne from a wide-mouthed stemmed affair.

39.   After the formalities, Yeltsin mixed easily with the ambassadors, sipping champagne and chatting in Russian.

40.   Alan Edwards, spokesman for Mel B, emerged from the hospital to say that Scary Spice was sitting up in bed sipping champagne.