And if a fan doesn't root for his team to win, who is he, exactly?

While many fans may have rooted against the Soviet team, few questioned their skills.

Hockey may be the only sport in which fans do not root for their team to finish first.

"But if I won the big one, I'd have the fans rooting for me."

At least then the local fans could root for a real home team, with players who will at least stay around until they turn 15.

In the lounge, a few players became fans, rooting for the first-place Cardinals to lose.

But he had an enthusiastic group of fans rooting him on at the 18th, and he came close to breaking the 62 barrier.

Johnson can run the 400, Greene the 100, and fans can root for a rejuvenated 34-year-old unknown in the 200.

Not coincidentally, Schott was also one of the last of the owners whom fans actually rooted for.

So her many fans were rooting for her.