"When Joe and I tried to picture ourselves in the stands cheering or not cheering, it didn't seem respectful of the dozens or even hundreds of alumni who are missing and probably, certainly some of them, who may be dead," Rupp said.

Although the student body strongly supports their school for all events, the annual basketball games between the two schools always fill the stands to cheer on their respective school.

The visitor said he had sat in the stands cheering for the Devils and telling people he was Terreri's father.

When the St. John's Eight, the remaining players from the men's basketball team, emerged from the locker room tunnel onto the court at Madison Square Garden yesterday morning, the few thousand fans sprinkled in the stands stood and cheered for the remnants of a once-proud program.

The version of the song appropriated by Wyoming includes lyrics adjusted to represent the school's location, a stands cheer that occurs during a drum break, and a repeat of the verse commonly follows.

With the Detroit Red Wings star Sergei Fedorov, a fellow native of Russia, in the stands cheering her on, Kournikova unveiled an aggressive, risk-taking nature.

What Beamon does remember about Mexico City, beyond the image of Tommie Smith and John Carlos standing on the awards podium with black-gloved fists raised above their bowed heads, was that his high school sweetheart was in the stands cheering him on.

Her sister Sarah was in the stands cheering her on.