Holtby earned a standing ovation about halfway through the third period after making a pair of saves on point-blank shots.
Kovalev walked through the arena to a rousing ovation about two hours before the card was set to start on HBO and Bivol already had his sights set on what would have been the biggest fight of his career.
When he returned to a thunderous ovation about 10 minutes later, the Orangemen were up by 47-43 and were on their way to Albany for the East Regional semifinals against No. 10 Auburn, a 68-62 winner today over No. 2 Wake Forest.
3 30 P.M. (Ovation) THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE (2002) Thandie Newton steps into the Audrey Hepburn role as a new wife who returns to her Paris apartment to break it off with her art-dealing husband, Charlie, only to find the place ransacked, in this remake from Jonathan Demme of the 1963 comic thriller "Charade".
Stoudamire, who scored 22 points in the first half, took 31 shots before leaving to a standing ovation with about a minute to play.
"Where the towers stood is hallowed ground," said Governor Pataki, who received a standing ovation from about 400 family members at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center for the memorial service.
The ovation took about two minutes, and on the video board above center field, Jeter was paired with Gehrig, one on either side of a giant number 2,721.
As Mr. Gingrich strode onto the stage at the Alabama Theater here, pausing for a moment to bask in the standing ovation from about 2,500 Republicans, he faced a critical juncture in his presidential bid.
"In the end, I felt the only way I could ensure that these priorities were upheld was to change the Senate," said Jeffords, who received a standing ovation from about 150 people at a university conference sponsored by the Long Beach Education Partnership.
"It's hard to compete with a guy in front of a cheering audience and standing ovations talking about a subject in which there is virtual partisan unanimity," said Steve Elmendorf, chief of staff to Representative Richard A. Gephardt, the House minority leader, who will deliver the Democratic response to the State of the Union address.
"That's the great thing about East Coast baseball," he said, steering himself onto the high road and emphasizing the about-face ovation the fans gave him before his final at-bat in the eighth inning, when he flied out to complete an 0-for-5 day that included a video presentation of Jeremy's infamous no-slide dash for home in the Yankees-A's series last fall.
