Champions Sports Bar   

Looking for the lug of your dreams? Angling for an ambience that falls somewhere between Bennigan's and the nosebleed section of the Fleet Center? If your taste runs toward the unapologetically unoriginal, the Champions at Copley Place Marriott may conform to your idea of an acceptable sports bar. Not only does it have upwards of 20 TV screens (two of them 10- footers), but the bartenders can accommodate both out-of-towners (by switching to, say, the Trailblazers-Lakers game on TNT) and locals (by tuning 99 percent of the sets to home team outings). The place isn't bashful about its status as a chain, but -- like the Hard Rock Cafe, with its Aerosmithsonian Collection -- it has enough Boston sports paraphernalia (including a Bledsoe jersey and autographed photos of assorted Patriots, Celtic and Bruins) to gratify even the most jaded fans. -- Julia Clinger