1.   And there was a guy trying to balance an empty beer cup on his head just a section away at Yankee Stadium on Sunday night.

2.   Another audience that truly looks like America will greet them with applause, hoots and raised beer cups.

3.   At the end of the game, Reunion fans pelted the celebrating Oilers with water bottles and beer cups, including the beer.

4.   Behind their beer cups, the other birdmen frowned with lust.

5.   A wind howled up the Mississippi River all day, and plastic beer cups clattered up the deserted streets.

6.   Conversations cease, chewing stops, beer cups freeze in mid-hoist.

7.   Glenn Slade and Kim Schonback were sitting in a sea of empty beer cups and green-and-yellow confetti, and looking dazed.

8.   No one tossing chunks of ice or empty beer cups at players.

9.   Owner J.J. Jacobs, the latest in a long line of hot dog men from Buffalo, is more concerned with beer cups than Stanley Cups.

10.   Referee Paul Stewart last night left the ice to a chorus of boos and a rain of beer cups and programs.