1.   Nothing would be better for New York, the saying goes, than a New York-New York championship matchup.

2.   Now, they are the establishment going up against a Virginia Tech team that aims to prove it does belong in this national championship matchup.

3.   The fight is perhaps the biggest involving two Los Angeles-based boxers in two decades, which has fostered pre-fight publicity that has rivaled some heavyweight championship matchups.

4.   The games that offer neither a championship matchup nor the sunshine of Pasadena are reduced to employing survival tactics from the days of the smoke-filled rooms.

5.   Their showdown in the West is viewed by many as the actual championship matchup.

6.   This could be the classic championship matchup.

7.   Adding more flavor to the championship game matchup is the way the teams got to this point.

8.   But, in an earlier conversation, he said he liked the championship matchup.

9.   It was not immediately clear if Helgeson will get any prize for correctly picking the four teams since she did not accurately predict the championship matchup.

10.   Todd Martin, ousted by Pete Sampras in the fourth round, expects the championship matchup most fans here and worldwide have been anticipating -- Agassi against Sampras.