November 21: Arranged a championship showdown with Ginebra San Miguel for the third conference, by beating San Miguel Beer, 94-80 on the last playing date of the semifinal round.

Now, if there is a fourth consecutive championship showdown between the Cowboys and 49ers, it will take place on Dallas's turf.

U.C.L.A.'s players are grousing about a mighty tumble that sent them from an undefeated season and a national championship showdown with Tennessee to a beauty pageant game yesterday against Wisconsin.

There would be a two week break while the championship relocated to North America for the conclusion of the season and the championship showdown that would erupt at the Canadian Grand Prix.

It is the championship showdown that many people expected.

He is the second-leading receiver on Miami's 12-0 team as it heads to a national championship showdown against Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl.

New York racing officials resent the advent of the Breeders' Cup era because it has stripped Belmont Park's major fall races of their role as definitive, season-ending championship showdowns.

If Toronto could somehow negotiate its way through the Eastern Conference finals and into a championship showdown with the Lakers, neither the network nor Commissioner David Stern would fret.

The Florida State football team today provided a convincing argument for its participation in a national championship showdown.

And now he could smile, with a national championship showdown likely with Nebraska.