| National Football League | ... nounced that the Tennessee Titans and Buffalo Bills would kick-off the 2009 | preseason in the Hall of Fame Game. The game, played on Sunday, August 9, ... |
| International League | ... lain League, a summer baseball league. In Norfolk, the Norfolk Tides of the | and the Norfolk Admirals of the American Hockey League. In Virginia Beach, ... |
| National Football League | ... y major league baseball franchise. In 1926, Hartford had a franchise in the | known as the Hartford Blues. The NFL would return to Connecticut from 1973 ... |
| The Football League | ... d in 1871, the club is one of the oldest teams in England, but did not join | until 1920, and had never played in the top tier of English football leagu ... |
| United States Basketball League | The Brevard Blue Ducks, members of the | (USBL), played their home schedule at the Clemente Center at Florida Tech. ... |
| Serie A | Florence is represented by ACF Fiorentina, who play in | , the top league of Italian football. They play their games at the Stadio ... |
| Top League | ... e since its establishment. Kintetsu Liners, a rugby union team, play in the | . After winning promotion in 2008-09, they will again remain in the compet ... |
| Série B | ... Brazilian Championship in 2001. In 2004, Atlético almost got relegation to | . 2005 started disastrously, and was the worst year in its history; the cl ... |
| La Liga | Unlike | , which imposed a quota on the number of non-EU players on each club, Seri ... |
| Premier League | ... ers Football Club from 1994 to 1996, during their previous two seasons as a | club |
| National Football League | ... d coach. He is ranked as one of the greatest and most innovative coaches in | (NFL) history, creating many new formations and methods. He invented the n ... |
| CFL | ... , including a record 466 in 1991. His 48 touchdown passes in 1994 remains a | record. He earned three Grey Cup MVP awards, and was named the CFL's Most ... |
| Bundesliga | ... coefficient behind the English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, and German | , which is based on the performance of Italian clubs in the Champions Leag ... |
| English football league system | ... oin The Football League until 1920, and had never played in the top tier of | before the 2006–07 season |
| Soviet League | ... key league in Eurasia and the successor to the Russian Super League and the | , the history of which dates back to the 1940s, was launched in 2008 with ... |
| NASCAR | Occoneechee Speedway, just outside Hillsborough, was one of the first two | tracks to open and is the only track remaining from that inaugural 1949 se ... |
| Major League Baseball | ... May 5, 1969), nicknamed "Knuckles", was an American right-handed pitcher in | best known for his time with the Chicago White Sox. He was one of eight pl ... |
| Florida Football Alliance | ... ard Rams and Space Coast Predators were scheduled to play as members of the | in 2010 |
| National League | ... oast relocation of the Dodgers and the Giants which left New York without a | presence. New York City official Robert Moses tried to interest Brooklyn D ... |
| Canadian Football League | ... remain with the Patriots from 1987–1989, after which he left to play in the | |
| Brazilian League Série B | In 2006 the club won the | after a good campaign, qualifying to play the Brazilian League Série A in ... |
| Eastern Counties | ... orwich United (who are based in Blofield some east of the city) play in the | league, whilst Spixworth FC (previously known as AFC Norwich) play in the ... |
| National Football League | ... home to two major league-level sports teams. The Indianapolis Colts of the | (NFL) have been based in Indianapolis since relocating there in 1984, and ... |
| Scottish Premier League | ... ootball team, Dunfermline Athletic play their games at East End Park in the | . The team have became famous for winning the Scottish Cup twice in the 19 ... |
| NBA | ... here the Lakers defeated the New Jersey Nets to win their third consecutive | championship |
| National Football League | Mason Foster is currently a linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the | |
| National Association | ... nal Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the | , the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stocking ... |
| League of Corinth | In 336 BC Philip II of Macedonia was authorized by the | as its Hegemon to initiate a sacred war of vengeance against the Persians ... |
| NHL | ... occasionally would ask panelists, "How 'bout those Sabres?" if the Buffalo | hockey team was doing well. Spoofs of the show on often reflect this addit ... |
| NASCAR | ... e home of the very first and only black driver to win a race in what is now | 's Sprint Cup, Wendell Scott, and was the birthplace of "Battling Jim" Joh ... |
| Victorian Football League | ... on, Essendon, South Melbourne and Geelong split from the VFA and formed the | (VFL). Collingwood won its first premiership in 1902, defeating by 33 poin ... |
| Atlantic League | ... thout a team for the first time in his career. He played in the independent | with the Newark Bears, hoping for a chance with another major league organ ... |
| 2007 Brasileirão | ... ro in the final. After its promotion, the club managed to finish 8th in the | , earning a spot at the Copa Sudamericana 2008 |
| Continental Indoor Football League | ... nce located in the city. In 2009 indoor football returned to Madison as the | 's Wisconsin Wolfpack, who call the Alliant Energy Center home |
| Football League Two | ... motion in his first season, finishing second in the old Division Three (now | ). In 1999 the Gills made the play-offs but lost in the Division Two play- ... |
| National League | ... Association in 1884 and won the AA championship in 1889 before joining the | in 1890. They promptly won the NL Championship their first year in the Lea ... |
| National League | ... 1964 to 1983. It was named in honor of William A. Shea, the man who brought | baseball back to New York. It was demolished in 2009 to furnish additional ... |
| American Association | ... m the N.L. after one season. A later version of the Athletics played in the | from 1882–1891 |
| Coastal Plain League | ... the city limits at War Memorial Stadium in Hampton. The Pilots play in the | , a summer baseball league. In Norfolk, the Norfolk Tides of the Internati ... |
| Football League | The club entered the | in 1921 with the formation of the old Third Division (North); after haunti ... |
| Pacific Coast League | ... d by the NFL and was prevented from gaining employment with a team from the | . Unable to land a job in the NFL or the Pacific Coast League, Radovich fi ... |
| Premier League | ... nagement with Blackburn Rovers, whom he led from the Second Division to the | title in 1995. Soon afterwards he stepped down as Blackburn manager to bec ... |
| NHL | ... full-face masks.One woman, Manon Rhéaume, appeared as a goaltender for the | 's Tampa Bay Lightning in preseason games against the St. Louis Blues and ... |
| second division | ... r 1889, it is the oldest football team in Spain, and currently plays in the | , holding home games at Estadio Nuevo Colombino, which has a 21,600 capaci ... |
| Copa Macaya | ... Catalunya and the Copa del Rey. In 1902, the club won its first trophy, the | , and participated in the first Copa del Rey, losing 1–2 to Bizcaya in the ... |
| China Table Tennis Super League | ... itions at the clubs level. The national league of countries like China (the | ), Germany, France, Belgium and Austria are some highest level examples. T ... |
| Asia League Ice Hockey | ... all of the home nations: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.The | , an international ice hockey league featuring clubs from China, Japan and ... |
| United Football League | ... eball and soccer, and the Virginia Destroyers are the 2011 champions of the | . Additionally, the Washington Redskins have Redskins Park, their headquar ... |
| Brasileirão | In 2009, Atlético led the | in eight of the thirty-eight rounds, and finished in seventh place. Strike ... |
| National Basketball Association | ... remains in the city. The New York Knicks started play in 1946 as one of the | 's original teams, playing their first home games at the 69th Regiment Arm ... |
| Football League | ... ch as Tanni Grey-Thompson and Colin Jackson as well as many Premier League, | and international footballers, such as Craig Bellamy, Gareth Bale, Ryan Gi ... |
| Pacific League | ... ished ten years earlier by Yutaka Fukumoto for the Hankyu Braves in Japan's | . In his prime, Henderson had a virtual monopoly on the stolen base title ... |
| National League | ... am later turned professional through 1875, becoming a charter member of the | in 1876, but were expelled from the N.L. after one season. A later version ... |
| Campionat de Catalunya | ... lona had a successful start in regional and national cups, competing in the | and the Copa del Rey. In 1902, the club won its first trophy, the Copa Mac ... |
| All-American Girls Professional Baseball League | ... 44 and 1946 World Series titles. The war years also saw the founding of the | |
| Major League Baseball | ... inhabited Yucca district. The Chicago White Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers of | both moved to the city of Phoenix, Arizona in 2009 for spring training and ... |
| 2009 season | ... r. The deal, however, would last only one year, as the Sol folded after the | |
| United Counties Football League | ... e town's second club is Boston Town nicknamed The Poachers, who play in the | . Home games are played at their stadium on Tattershall Road, on the outsk ... |
| Premier League | ... triumph came in 1939. They returned to the top flight of English football ( | ) in 2003, having previously been relegated in 1988 after just one season ... |
| National League | ... s posted a 12–8 record with a 3.73 ERA to start off his second stint in the | |
| IPL | ... , a domestic first-class cricket championship. The city is also home to the | team Delhi Daredevils, and ICL team Delhi Giants (earlier named Delhi Jets ... |
| Football League | Reading were elected to the Third Division of the | in 1920, and have spent the majority of the time since then in the third a ... |
| Northwest League | ... bly the Medford A's, later known as the Southern Oregon Timberjacks, of the | . They were a short-season single-A minor league baseball affiliate of the ... |
| Conference North | ... l clubs. The more senior Boston United, nicknamed The Pilgrims, play in the | . The stadium is currently located on York Street in the centre of the tow ... |
| National Football League | ... lldogs, which later became a founding member, and two-time champion, of the | , 6-0 |
| La Liga | Butragueño amassed | totals of 341 games and 123 goals for his main club, in 12 seasons, and re ... |
| ECHL | ... 0-seat multi-purpose arena, and is home to the Ontario Reign, a team in the | . It is the largest enclosed arena in the Inland Empire |
| Eastern Colored League | ... ballplayer, founded the Negro National League in 1920. A second league, the | , was established in 1923. These became known as the Negro Leagues, though ... |
| Australian Football League | ... ury Football Club. Many footballers from Albury have gone on to play in the | , including Haydn Bunton Senior, who won three Brownlow Medals and was an ... |
| Negro National League | ... league to organize the sport. Rube Foster, a former ballplayer, founded the | in 1920. A second league, the Eastern Colored League, was established in 1 ... |
| Football League | ... winning against Woking with 3 matches to spare, secured a place back in the | and the town celebrated with a small parade and honours placed on senior e ... |
| Major League Baseball | ... f Queens, in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park. It was the home baseball park of | 's New York Mets from 1964 to 2008. Originally built as a multi-purpose st ... |
| American League | ... ennant with an 87-53 record. The following year, he would hit .408 with the | 's Cleveland Naps |
| La Liga | ... 9, Barcelona became the first club in Spain to win the treble consisting of | , Copa del Rey, and the Champions League. That same year, it also became t ... |
| National Football League | The Philadelphia Eagles of the | hold their pre-season training camp each summer at the football facilities ... |
| Northwoods League | ... the Madison Mallards, a college wood-bat summer baseball league team in the | (not to be confused with the Minor League Baseball). They play in Warner P ... |
| NHL | ... . The term "Freeway Series" also inspired the official name of the regions' | rivalry: the Freeway Face-Off |
| National Colored Base Ball League | ... great and lasting success as the Cuban Giants, while the first league, the | , failed in 1887 after only two weeks due to low attendance. The Negro Ame ... |
| American Basketball Association | ... rofessional basketball team in Dallas had been the Dallas Chaparrals of the | , which moved to San Antonio in 1973 to become the San Antonio Spurs |
| Intercounty Baseball League | In 1974, McLain played a season for the London Majors of the | at Labatt Memorial Park in London, Ontario, Canada. Given his arm problem ... |
| League of Corinth | ... Philip's heir, Alexander, who had himself been confirmed as Hegemon by the | , invaded Asia Minor at the head of a combined Macedonian and Greek army. ... |
| National Basketball Association | ... , and play their home games in Lucas Oil Stadium. The Indiana Pacers of the | (NBA) play their home games at Bankers Life Fieldhouse; they began play in ... |
| ICL | ... t championship. The city is also home to the IPL team Delhi Daredevils, and | team Delhi Giants (earlier named Delhi Jets) |
| Basketball Bundesliga | ... the World League in 2008. The basketball team of BBC Bayreuth plays in the | (division 1), the HaSpo Bayreuth handball team, the footballers of SpVgg B ... |
| Premier League | ... European leagues according to UEFA's league coefficient behind the English | , Spanish La Liga, and German Bundesliga, which is based on the performanc ... |
| National Football League | ... basketball. Lambeau Field, located in Green Bay, Wisconsin, is home to the | 's Green Bay Packers. The Packers have been part of the NFL since the leag ... |
| National Hockey League | ... only modern full-time "big four" franchise were the Hartford Whalers of the | , who played in Hartford from 1979 to 1997 at the Hartford Civic Center. T ... |
| Southern Football League Premier Division | ... . Sport in Evesham is represented by Evesham United F.C. which plays in the | , and Rugby Union – Senior and Youth Sections at Evesham Rugby Club. The t ... |
| Women's Professional Soccer | ... ar deal to become the official presenting partner of the Los Angeles Sol of | . The deal, however, would last only one year, as the Sol folded after the ... |
| Premier League | On 14 June 2000, NTL won the rights to show 40 live | matches on a pay-per-view basis for three years, beginning at the start of ... |
| Nationwide Conference | ... later and then worked its way through the non-league divisions to reach the | in 2003. In the 2005–06 season, Stanley, after winning against Woking with ... |
| Bundesliga | During the eighties and nineties, there was another successful | striker called "Fritz Walter", who mainly played for VfB Stuttgart. Althou ... |
| Lega Calcio | ... ng for over eighty years since the 1929-30 season. It had been organized by | until 2010, but a new league, the Lega Serie A, had been created for the 2 ... |
| Canadian Interuniversity Sport | The school's team name in | (CIS) is the Mount Allison Mounties. The football team has appeared in the ... |
| Premier League | ... alglish achieved fourth position with the team in the first year of the new | . The following year, Dalglish failed in an attempt to sign Roy Keane. Bla ... |
| Northern Premier League Premier Division | ... ng their first season as that division's champions, securing a place in the | for the 2011–12 season. |
| Women's Flat Track Derby Association | ... in 2005, were instrumental in the rule-setting and track design used by the | |
| The Football League | On 19 June 2000, NTL entered into a joint venture with | to set up an internet portal for all 72 clubs. Under the terms of the deal ... |
| Japan Ice Hockey League | ... featuring clubs from China, Japan and South Korea, is the successor to the | .International club competitions organized by the IIHF include the Champio ... |
| Northern Premier League Division One North | ... s founded. They play at Chester City's Deva Stadium and were elected to the | for the 2010–11 season, ending their first season as that division's champ ... |
| NASCAR | Oldsmobile is especially known for its competition in | . Beginning with the Rocket 88, Oldsmobile proved heavily competitive in s ... |
| Major League Baseball | ... id Lee Wells (born May 20, 1963), nicknamed "Boomer", is an American former | pitcher. Wells was considered to be one of the game's better left-handed p ... |
| Conference North | ... econd consecutive year, the club will from the 2012-2013 season play in the | league |
| National League | Three players in the | named their children after Shea Stadium |
| Major League Soccer | ... e condition FIFA imposed was the creation of a professional football league | ;started play in 1996. Despite these misgivings, in terms of attendance th ... |
| A1 Ethniki | ... er-20 European Basketball championship. The domestic top basketball league, | , is composed of fourteen teams. The most successful Greek teams are Panat ... |
| Canadian Football League | The Saskatchewan Roughriders of the | , the only professional sports team in Saskatchewan, play their home games ... |
| FA Women's Premier League National Division | ... hy cruising past Milton Keynes Dons 3–0 in the final. In the 2010–11 season | (the second highest league, following the formation of the Women's Super L ... |
| Football League One | Chesterfield is home to the | club Chesterfield F.C. who formerly played at the Recreation Ground (usual ... |
| National Hockey League | ... f Mel Gibson's antisemitic comments. As an ice hockey fan, Leary hosted the | video NHL's Greatest Goals. In 2003, he was the subject of the Comedy Cent ... |
| National Hockey League | ... season, Amway signed a three-year deal to be the presenting sponsor of the | 's Detroit Red Wings |
| Baseball Bundesliga | ... nd softball club in Germany. The Tornados play in the first division of the | and have won the championship 11 times, more than any other club |
| Football League | ... ties professional rugby union team. Cardiff City have played in the English | since the 1920–21 season, climbing to Division 1 after one season. Cardiff ... |
| CIS | ... ll League, and the University of Regina's Regina Cougars/Regina Rams of the | |
| NHL | ... Oilers and Montreal Canadiens old timers game, preceding the night's actual | regular season game, which was the first NHL game to be played outdoors (a ... |
| South West Combination Women's Football League | ... hern Region Women's Football League and Cup double and were promoted to the | . They followed this with an unbeaten 2007/8 League season to gain promoti ... |
| League of Ireland | County Dublin is home to five | clubs, all playing in the Premier Division. Dalymount Park in Phibsboro, i ... |
| Southern League | ... ont of a crowd of 2,000. New Brompton were among the founder members of the | upon its creation in 1894, and were placed in Division Two. They were name ... |
| NASCAR | In 2001 | driver Kevin Harvick opened his shop in Kernersville. Kevin and his wife, ... |
| 2010–11 season | ... County Cup trophy cruising past Milton Keynes Dons 3–0 in the final. In the | FA Women's Premier League National Division (the second highest league, fo ... |
| League of Corinth | ... ebes and eventually Macedon, with the latter uniting the Greek world in the | (also known as the Hellenic League or Greek League) under the guidance of ... |
| Negro American League | ... Ball League, failed in 1887 after only two weeks due to low attendance. The | of 1951 is considered the last major league season and the last profession ... |
| Women's National Basketball Association | The Houston Comets were a | (WNBA) team based in Houston, Texas, United States. Formed in 1997, the te ... |
| Premier League | ... qualify for the playoffs, during which Dalglish led Blackburn into the new | by beating Leicester City 1–0 in the Second Division Play-off final at Wem ... |
| Premier League | ... attendance since the ground was made all-seated was on 2 February 2000 in a | game against Manchester United and was watched by 39,640 fans. In recent y ... |
| Serie B | Local football club A.S. Bari, currently competing in | , plays in the impressive Stadio San Nicola, an architecturally innovative ... |
| American Indoor Soccer League | ... of the NBA Development League and the Tulsa Revolution, which plays in the | . Enid and Lawton host professional basketball teams in the USBL and the C ... |
| German Handball League | ... a Handball team (formerly SG Kronau-Oestringen) playing in the professional | |
| National League | ... other big four leagues at various times. The Hartford Dark Blues joined the | for one season in 1876, becoming the state's first and only major league b ... |
| Peloponnesian League | ... e agency of Sparta under the ephor Chilon, and the city was enrolled in the | . Henceforth, its policy was usually determined either by Sparta or Corint ... |
| American Basketball Association | ... their home games at Bankers Life Fieldhouse; they began play in 1967 in the | (ABA) and joined the NBA when the leagues merged in 1976 |
| Major League Baseball | The history of the Athletics | franchise spans the period from 1901 to the present day, having begun in P ... |
| Premier League | ... have also won two Football League Cups, and finished third in the inaugural | in 1993. They were relegated two years later and didn't reclaim their top ... |
| Football League Two | ... English professional football club, based in Plymouth, Devon, that plays in | |
| Southern League | ... gh they had previously registered a 12–1 win against Gloucester City in the | in November 1946 |
| National Football League | ... merican Football Conference (AFC) champion Denver Broncos and to decide the | (NFL) champion for the 1977 season. The Cowboys defeated the Broncos by th ... |
| Premier League | ... are Newcastle Brown Ale, a leading brand of beer, Newcastle United F.C., a | team, and the Tyne Bridge. It has hosted the world's most popular half mar ... |
| United States Football League | ... drafted. Flutie played that year for the New Jersey Generals of the upstart | . In 1986 he signed with the NFL's Chicago Bears, and later played for the ... |
| Southern Association | Founded in 1887, the Pelicans became part of the | in 1901. From 1915 through 1957, they played home games at Heinemann Park ... |
| Premier Division | County Dublin is home to five League of Ireland clubs, all playing in the | . Dalymount Park in Phibsboro, is home to Bohemians F.C. Current League Ch ... |
| NFL's | ... e New Orleans Pelicans name are currently owned by Tom Benson, owner of the | New Orleans Saints and the NBA's New Orleans Hornets |
| Premier League | ... in the city. It is also the largest club stadium in England outside of the | . The vast majority of the seats are covered. It is located in the Sheffie ... |
| National Hockey League | ... ssive apostrophe. The business was founded by Tim Horton, who played in the | from 1949 until his death in a car accident in 1974 |
| BSN | Morales became a member of the | 's Cangrejeros De Santurce in 1974, when he was only 14 while still playin ... |
| National Hockey League | ... hockey has become a year-round pastime in some areas. In North America, the | (NHL) is the highest level for men, and the most popular. The Canadian Wom ... |
| Mad Rollin' Dolls | The All-Girl Roller Derby League, | , was formed in Madison in 2004. Mad Rollin' Dolls LLC, is a member of the ... |
| first division | ... dominated the German Rugby scene for a long time. DRC Hannover plays in the | , and SV Odin von 1905 as well as SG 78/08 Hannover play in the second div ... |
| BSN | ... ability to conquer both scoring and team championships in the Puerto Rican | league, is one of Puerto Rico's most famous basketball players |
| International Soccer League | ... t soccer game held at Shea Stadium occurred during tournament play from the | on June 17, 1965. New York United of the American Soccer League called She ... |
| English football league system | ... he Football League Championship, the second-highest division overall in the | . Cardiff has numerous smaller clubs including Grange Harlequins A.F.C., U ... |
| Premier Hockey League | The Indian Premier League franchise Bangalore Royal Challengers, the | franchise Bangalore Hi-fliers, and the Karnataka Premier League franchisee ... |
| Major League Baseball | ... y by the two major leagues' administrations were united under the rubric of | |
| Major League Baseball | ... he parents of JonBenét Ramsey, lived in the area in the early 2000s. Former | pitcher Alejandro Peña also makes his home in Roswell. Current Atlanta Bra ... |
| National Rugby League | ... twelve interchanges are allowed in any game from each team, although in the | , this was reduced to ten prior to the 2008 season. If a team has to inter ... |
| National Football League | ... ducation attending Columbia Law School, while playing professionally in the | (NFL) and singing and acting in off-campus productions. He graduated from ... |
| United Football League | ... nalyst for ABC and ESPN. In 2009, he joined Versus as a broadcaster for the | . He is currently (2011-2012) a college football analyst for NBC Sports |
| Western Baseball League | ... Division II College World Series. The Chico Heat were also champions in the | in 1997 |
| top flight | ... id youth graduate Hipólito Rincón, Recreativo first gained promotion to the | . After just one season, it returned to level two, staying there until 199 ... |
| National Hockey League | ... They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the | (NHL). Part of the 1967 NHL Expansion, the Flyers were the first non-Origi ... |
| Women's National Basketball Association | ... number of minor league-level teams also play in the city. The Indiana Fever | (WNBA) started play in 2000, and are the sister team to the Pacers NBA tea ... |
| Midwest League | ... ust two games with the Smokies, he was promoted to the Clinton C-Sox of the | where he posted a record of 4 wins and 7 losses |
| Eastern League | Henderson spent the 1978 season with the Jersey City A's of the | . After the minor league season ended, he played the 1978–1979 winter seas ... |
| Aetolian | In 211 BC Rome countered the Macedonian threat with a Greek alliance of the | s, Elis, Sparta, Messenia and Attalus I of Pergamon, as well as two Roman ... |
| Indian Premier League | The | franchise Bangalore Royal Challengers, the Premier Hockey League franchise ... |
| Canadian Junior Football League | ... ude the Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League, the Regina Thunder of the | , the Prairie Fire of the Rugby Canada Super League, the Regina Red Sox of ... |
| Southern Football League | ... did play in hoops. This lasted for only a few years, and upon entering the | in 1894 the Club was playing in stripes – possibly so they did not clash w ... |
| English Premier League | Peterborough Phantoms are the city's ice hockey team, playing in the | at the East of England Ice Rink. Motorcycle speedway is also a popular spo ... |
| The new season | ... 06, it mathematically secured promotion with two matches left to be played. | in the top level was one of overachievements. The club finished eighth in ... |
| Continental Indoor Football League | ... Ohio is the home of the Marion Blue Racers, an indoor football team in the | , that plays at Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Marion was home to the Marion ... |
| National Basketball Association | ... y as the long-time play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers of the | , Hearn was remembered for his rapid fire, staccato broadcasting style, in ... |
| National Hockey League | ... Gerbe was born in Oxford and currently plays for the Buffalo Sabres of the | |
| United Football League | ... ing at the Civic Center. Hartford was home to the Hartford Colonials of the | for one season in 2010 |
| Gulf Coast League | ... Lucie Mets Florida State League team and the Mets rookie level team in the | . All three play at Digital Domain Field. The Treasure Coast Galleons, a s ... |
| Western Baseball League | ... is former home of the Chico Rooks (Soccer), and the Chico Heat (Baseball – | ) |
| English football league system | ... ootball team. Bedford Town F.C. currently plays at the seventh level of the | and Bedford F.C. play at the 11th level |
| Florida State League | The city is home to New York Mets spring training, the St. Lucie Mets | team and the Mets rookie level team in the Gulf Coast League. All three pl ... |
| Appalachian League | ... amateur free agent and was assigned to play with the Harlan Smokies of the | . McLain made a spectacular debut in professional baseball, throwing a no ... |
| National Base Ball League | ... s was the formation a much more "ethical" league, which became known as the | . After a series of rival leagues were organized but failed, (most notably ... |
| ABA | ... . It features two teams with Dallas roots—the Spurs began their life in the | as the Dallas Chaparrals and did not move to San Antonio until 1973. In th ... |
| La Liga | |1983–84||rowspan="12"|Real Madrid||rowspan="12"| | ||10||4||0||0||10|| |
| Football League Championship | ... , losing 1–0 at the new Wembley Stadium. Cardiff City currently play in the | , the second-highest division overall in the English football league syste ... |
| Major League Baseball | ... ssifications of minor leagues. Each team in the league is affiliated with a | team, and most play in their affiliate's spring training facility |
| ACB | ... tball team is CB Bilbao Berri aka Bizkaia Bilbao Basket, which plays in the | . Their home venue is the Bilbao Arena |
| minor league | The Mahoning Valley Scrappers, a short-season Class A | baseball team, moved from Erie, Pennsylvania, to Niles in 1999. The team p ... |
| NASCAR | Costner was named ceremonial Grand Marshal of the | Nextel Cup Series' Auto Club 500 which took place on February 25, 2007, at ... |
| National League | ... during the second inning. He pitched in the fourth inning, but by then the | had already built a 9-2 lead. McLain created more dissension when he clash ... |
| Western Major Baseball League | ... he Prairie Fire of the Rugby Canada Super League, the Regina Red Sox of the | , and the University of Regina's Regina Cougars/Regina Rams of the CIS |
| The Championship | ... English association football club based in the town of Reading who play in | . Established in 1871, the club is one of the oldest teams in England, but ... |
| Super League | ... ssional leagues are the Australasian National Rugby League and the European | and to a lesser extent the French Elite One Championship. Domestic leagues ... |
| Football League | ... goals between 1963 and 1975. He also jointly holds the record for the most | goals scored in a single season, having scored 31 goals in the 1973–74 sea ... |
| MLB | ... of Community Activities and Public Affairs, as well as a part-owner of the | Baltimore Orioles |
| major league | ... ina, West Virginia and Tennessee. The league's season starts in June, after | teams have signed players that they selected in the annual amateur draft, ... |
| Canadian Amateur Hockey League | ... , later known as the wrist shot. Goal nets became a standard feature of the | (CAHL) in 1900. Left and right defence began to replace the point and cove ... |
| South of Scotland Football League | Kirkcudbright is represented in the | by St. Cuthbert Wanderers F.C.. The club's best known ex players are Bob M ... |
| American Soccer League | ... om the International Soccer League on June 17, 1965. New York United of the | called Shea home in 1980 |
| International League | ... ng played in the city since 1902, and are currently members of the Triple-A | . The Indiana Ice ice hockey team began play in the United States Hockey L ... |
| major league | "Ozark Ike" was the nickname of two | baseball players, Ralph Kiner and Gus Zernial |
| Elite League | ... he team, known as the Peterborough Panthers, have operated regularly in the | . The Showground hosts the annual British Motorcycle Federation Rally each ... |
| NBA | ... who plays for the San Diego Chargers. Another 41 alumni have played for the | including hall of famer David Thompson and players Tom Gugliotta, Kenny Ca ... |
| Women's Flat Track Derby Association | ... s, was formed in Madison in 2004. Mad Rollin' Dolls LLC, is a member of the | |
| La Liga | ... nce 1955, and one of the only three clubs to have never been relegated from | , along with Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid. In 2009, Barcelona became th ... |
| Australian Football League | ... knamed the Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the | (AFL). Formed in 1892, the club traditionally represented the inner-Melbou ... |
| league | The South Atlantic League is a minor league baseball | based chiefly in the Southeastern United States, with the exception of thr ... |
| Major League Baseball | The Detroit Tigers are a | team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight char ... |
| National Rugby League | The two most prominent fully professional leagues are the Australasian | and the European Super League and to a lesser extent the French Elite One ... |
| Football League | ... eir withdrawal from the Football Combination on 27 June, alongside 18 other | clubs. The club will now arrange reserve fixtures on dates of their choice ... |
| Women's Professional Soccer | A new women's professional soccer league in the United States called | started in 2009. However, that league suspended operations in January 2012 |
| A-League | ... ly has ties to D.C. United in the Major League Soccer and in the Australian | |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | ... s live action department, as lead developer of the hydraulic giant squid in | , helping to win an Academy Award for Best Special Effects for the film |
| National Association | ... eason (1884), as did the Players League (1890), an attempt to return to the | structure of a league controlled by the players themselves. Both leagues a ... |
| Southern League Championship | The reserves' honours include the | in 1922, 1926, 1929, 1934 and its League Cup in 1933, 1934 and 1936; 1934 ... |
| La Liga | ... lub organizes an annual international tournament for young players. Spanish | football team Valencia CF has regularly used Ermelo as a base for their pr ... |
| National Basketball Association | ... mphasis on technology Drexel has graduated several notable athletes such as | (NBA) basketball players Michael Anderson and Malik Rose, and several nota ... |
| Major League Baseball | ... pine is the residence of former United States Representative Duncan Hunter. | Second baseman Marcus Giles lives there |
| American League | ... cessor to Milwaukee County Stadium since 2001. In 1982, the Brewers won the | Championship, marking their most successful season. The team switched from ... |
| Southern League | ... d to AA in 1963 to take its place; a year later the name was changed to the | . Out of the 51 seasons of operation, Augusta, Georgia competed in 46, Mac ... |
| Eredivisie | ... Sparta and Excelsior. Feyenoord and Excelsior are currently playing in the | , while Sparta was relegated to the second tier after the season |
| American League | ... 962 and Lou Brock's 118 in 1974 had preceded him). His 100 steals set a new | (AL) record, surpassing Ty Cobb's 96 set in 1915. That winter, Henderson p ... |
| National Football League | ... 1996 (The Snow Bowl) and 1997, before signing with the Buffalo Bills of the | in 1998. Prior to his final two Grey Cup victories with the Argonauts, Flu ... |
| NASCAR | ... m Speedway, formerly the North Carolina Speedway, which was a staple of the | schedule for nearly 40 years, before the race was discontinued in 2004 |
| Bundesliga | ... kname Die Roten or 'The Reds') is the local football team that plays in the | top division. Home games are played at the AWD-Arena, which hosted matches ... |
| Southern Indoor Football League | ... y League. As of 2009, Lafayette is home to the Lafayette Wildcatters of the | . It is also home to the , a semi-pro football program that started in 200 ... |
| Canadian Football League | Flutie signed with the BC Lions of the | in 1990, and in 1991, threw for a record 6,619 yards. He played briefly wi ... |
| National Football League | ... tional Football Conference (NFC) champion Philadelphia Eagles to decide the | (NFL) champion for the 1980 season. The Raiders defeated the Eagles by the ... |
| Pacific Coast League | ... ational League and the American League had been around. It evolved into the | , which included the Hollywood Stars, Los Angeles Angels, Oakland Oaks, Po ... |
| Canadian Football League | ... team. In Canada, Toronto's Rogers Centre is shared by the Blue Jays and the | 's Toronto Argonauts, and is also used by the Buffalo Bills on occasion |
| National League | ... had another respectable year in 1996, again finishing in the top ten in the | (NL) in walks, OBP, steals and runs. In August 1997, he was traded by the ... |
| Segunda División | Valladolid is represented in the | , the 2nd level of football (soccer) in Spain, with their own club, Real V ... |
| Super League | ... Europe it resulted in a move from a winter sport to a summer one as the new | competition tried to expand its market. In Australasia, the Super League w ... |
| Independent Women's Football League | ... is a women's semi-pro football team based in Madison that plays in the IWFL | . The Wolves home field is located at Middleton High School |
| NFL | ... ven Curtis is a former resident who, as of 2010, is a wide receiver for the | Kansas City Chiefs. Curtis graduated from Bingham High School where he pla ... |
| NBA | Morales had his eyes set on the | , but after attending college in the United States, the lack of understand ... |
| British Hockey League | ... s were a professional ice hockey team that played the 1995–96 season in the | |
| American Association | The first City Series was held in 1883 between the Phillies and the | Philadelphia Athletics. When the Athletics first joined the American Leagu ... |
| Southern League | ... season, it was elevated to AA. The league then morphed into the current AA | in 1964 and the South Atlantic League name disappeared from the minor leag ... |
| National Basketball Association | The Milwaukee Bucks of the | play home games at the Bradley Center. The Bucks won the NBA Championship ... |
| United States Hockey League | ... e-A International League. The Indiana Ice ice hockey team began play in the | (USHL) in 2004 |
| Highland League | Fraserburgh Football Club is a senior football club that plays in the | . Fraserburgh United FC is a junior football club that plays in the Scotti ... |
| Canadian Interuniversity Sport | ... Univeristy of Calgary Dinos women's ice hockey season that competes in the | (CIS). The Dinos are playing their second season of CIS hockey, and Wicken ... |
| National Premier Soccer League | ... troudsburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 2008, the team plays in | , a national amateur league at the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyra ... |
| Premier League | ... football club is Norwich City, also known as the Canaries, who play in the | after being promoted in the 2010–2011 season. Majority-owned by celebrity ... |
| United Soccer Association | ... e. Iin 1967 Banks played a season for the Cleveland Stokers of the American | ; this was a short lived attempt to build a first division U.S. league by ... |
| IFL | ... he Wisconsin Wolfpack in Madison in the CIFL; the Green Bay Blizzard of the | , and the Milwaukee Mustangs of the AFL |
| NASCAR | ... o, Kimi Räikkönen, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel. Many | drivers also got their start in racing from karts, such as Darrell Waltrip ... |
| Valley League | ... ma Sigma Sigma sorority. Woodstock is also home to the River Bandits of the | |
| major leagues | ... came up with the pitch while at Indianapolis, and brought it to the modern | two years later in 1908. Since Cicotte had a much more successful career ( ... |
| Major League Baseball | ... rk. This was because rail transport had to be conserved during the war, and | 's Spring Training was limited to an area east of the Mississippi River an ... |
| league championship | ... al Sociedad (third), that time was the one that came closest to winning the | |
| USHL | ... he end of 2011 there had been thirteen IIHF World Women's Championships.The | welcomed the first female professional hockey player in 1969–70, when the ... |
| Hawaii Winter Baseball | ... rsity's men's baseball team, the Sea Warriors. It was the home field of the | teams North Shore Honu and West Oahu CaneFires until 2008 |
| American League | ... s are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the | 's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of ... |
| Women's Professional Soccer | ... e National Soccer Hall of Fame by having 137 votes of the 141 ballots cast. | , a professional soccer league that launched in 2009, features Hamm's silh ... |
| National Rugby League | ... ngside each other in Australia, after which a peace deal in the form of the | was formed. The NRL has since become recognised as the sport's flagship co ... |
| National Basketball Association | ... They are members of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference of the | (NBA), and the reigning NBA champions, having defeated the Miami Heat in t ... |
| NASCAR | ... e time driving in Champ Car World Series (he has since raced in IndyCar and | ). The two were married at Skibo Castle, near Dornoch, Scotland, on Decemb ... |
| Isthmian League | ... tball team is Wingate & Finchley which plays in the Premier Division of the | . It was founded as a specifically Jewish football club in 1946. The local ... |
| National Hockey League | ... (just as if they had lost in regulation).From 1999–2000 until 2003–04, the | decided ties by playing a single five minute sudden death overtime period ... |
| CIFL | ... sin is represented by three teams: the Wisconsin Wolfpack in Madison in the | ; the Green Bay Blizzard of the IFL, and the Milwaukee Mustangs of the AFL |
| ECHL | ... n the years of 1995 and 2005, Lafayette was home to the Louisiana IceGators | hockey team; in 2009, the IceGators returned as a member of the Southern P ... |
| Major League Baseball | ... ear the Canadian border and the team's substantial number of Canadian fans. | teams have also played the song at games involving the Toronto Blue Jays, ... |
| Major League Baseball | ... an American former professional baseball player. He played as a pitcher in | for ten seasons, most notably for the Detroit Tigers. In , McLain became t ... |
| American Base Ball Association | ... fter a series of rival leagues were organized but failed, (most notably the | , which spawned the clubs which would ultimately become the St. Louis Card ... |
| Major League Soccer | Atlético currently has ties to D.C. United in the | and in the Australian A-League |
| Pacific Coast League | ... ampionship. In 1979, Henderson started the season with the Ogden A's of the | . In 71 games for Ogden, he had a batting average of .309 and stole 44 bas ... |
| Brazilian Championship | ... g Cruzeiro's five titles sequence. In 1971, the club won its first and only | in history; the club's biggest title ever. In 1976, Atlético won the State ... |
| Nippon Professional Baseball | ... a hosts four professional sport teams: one of them is the Orix Buffaloes, a | team, playing its home games at Kyocera Dome Osaka. Another baseball team, ... |
| Arizona Winter League | ... orth American League and site of home games of two (was four) teams for the | . The San Diego Padres used the field as a spring training facility from 1 ... |
| Liga ACB | CB Valladolid is the town's basketball team and they play in the | . Arvydas Sabonis played in this team. The matches are held in the Polidep ... |
| Southern Association | ... k. The franchise was sold to Little Rock at the end of the 1959 season. The | folded after the 1961 season |
| Women's Premier Soccer League | With the WUSA on hiatus, the | (WPSL) and the W-League regained their status as the premier women's socce ... |
| National Football League | ... Nick Spitzer, and Melissa Harris-Perry. Several football alumni play in the | , including Patrick Ramsey (New Orleans Saints), J.P. Losman (Buffalo Bill ... |
| Southern Professional Hockey League | ... Gators ECHL hockey team; in 2009, the IceGators returned as a member of the | . As of 2009, Lafayette is home to the Lafayette Wildcatters of the Southe ... |
| NASCAR | In 2001, Bradshaw entered the world of | by joining with HighLine Performance Group racing team to form FitzBradsha ... |
| Scottish Football League First Division | Queen of the South represent Dumfries and the surrounding area in the | . Palmerston Park on Terregles Street is the home ground of the team. This ... |
| W-League | With the WUSA on hiatus, the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) and the | regained their status as the premier women's soccer leagues in the United ... |
| La Liga | They are the current European football champions, and have won 21 | , 25 Copa del Rey, 10 Supercopa de España, 3 Copa Eva Duarte and 2 Copa de ... |
| Western Carolinas League | ... league of that name adopted the moniker in 1980, having previously been the | , founded in 1963 |
| South East Combination Women's Football League | ... on promotion after topping the league in 2007/08, and currently play in the | (the third tier of the game) |
| National Premier Soccer League | The Madison 56ers is a Madison amateur soccer team in the | . They play in Breese Stevens Field on East Washington Avenue |
| Philippine Basketball League | ... ir games at Araneta Coliseum and Cuneta Astrodome at Pasay; the now defunct | played some of their games at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex |
| National Hockey League | === Clubs ===The | ,(NHL) and specifically the Stanley Cup trophy, is the oldest still operat ... |
| League One | ... 4, and new boss Stan Ternent was unable to prevent the Gills' relegation to | . At the end of the 2007–08 season the club was relegated again, this time ... |
| Portuguese second division | ... afe, Braga) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Moreirense F.C. in the | , as a midfielder |
| Northwest League | ... spent the first season of his minor league career with the Boise A's of the | . In 46 games, Henderson batted .336 and hit three home runs and two tripl ... |
| NASCAR | ... ky, and Tennessee. The chain is best known for sponsoring the Food City 500 | race at Bristol Motor Speedway. That store remained open one day short of ... |
| National Basketball Association | ... specially in urban centers with limited space and grass areas. The American | has a huge following among Chinese youths, with Chinese players such as Ya ... |
| Northwest League | Pasco's Gesa Stadium hosts the Tri-City Dust Devils baseball club of the | . The Dust Devils are a Class A team of the Colorado Rockies. The team pla ... |
| Canadian Football League | ... Boston College, and played professionally in the National Football League, | , and United States Football League. He first rose to prominence during hi ... |
| National Association of Professional Base Ball Players | The first attempt at forming a "major league" produced the | , which lasted from 1871 to 1875. The now all professional Chicago White S ... |
| Atlantic League | ... Field, opened in 2001, is home to the Camden Riversharks of the independent | ; and the baseball team |
| Super League | ... Australia, New Zealand, Southern France and Papua New Guinea. The European | and Australasian National Rugby League are the premier club competitions. ... |
| NFL | Glendale is the home to the Arizona Cardinals of the | . The team formerly played at Sun Devil Stadium on the campus of Arizona S ... |
| NFL | ... lyst for The NFL Today. Over 130 NC State alumni play or have played in the | . Notable former players include Torry Holt, Roman Gabriel, Ted Brown, Dic ... |
| Premier League | ... ceipts for a game at Hillsborough involving Sheffield Wednesday was for the | match against Manchester United on 7 March 1998, which was watched by 39,4 ... |
| National Hurling League | ... fourteen years he won five All-Ireland titles, seven Munster titles, three | titles and seven Railway Cup titles. In a senior inter-county football car ... |
| National Football League | ... ll stadiums had a capacity of at least 53,000, and their usual tenants were | or NCAA Football teams. The most used venue was the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, ... |
| American League | The club is a charter member of the | , one of four clubs (with the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox and Clevel ... |
| Major League Baseball | ... coach Darrell Royal, University of Kansas Head basketball coach Ted Owens, | players Wilcy Moore, Von and Lindy McDaniel, University of Oklahoma and pr ... |
| Amateur Hockey Association of Canada | ... ablished. In 1886, teams that competed at the Winter Carnival organized the | (AHAC) league and played a regular season composed of "challenges" to the ... |
| Major League Baseball | He also refused additional provincial funding to | 's Montreal Expos for a new park. The stadium reportedly would have played ... |
| Rugby-Bundesliga | ... n in Germany, along with Hanover. In 2008–09, four out of nine clubs in the | were from Heidelberg, these being RG Heidelberg, SC Neuenheim, Heidelberge ... |
| Major League Baseball | ... lf after the war, it was their duty as patriots to continue the league, and | was continuing its schedule |
| Serie A | ... y League team and the former Montreal Expos Major League Baseball team, the | team Fiorentina, the Major League Soccer team, the Montreal Impact, the Ne ... |
| Major League Baseball | , when Tim Wakefield announced his retirement from | , R. A. Dickey of the New York Mets is the only knuckleballer in the big l ... |
| League One | ... achieved in the 2004–05 season when an average of 23,107 fans watched each | game at Hillsborough |
| Major League Baseball | ... California. The Dodgers are members of the National League West division of | (MLB). Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, New York, whe ... |
| Elite Ice Hockey League | ... Cardiff International Sports Village. They play in the 10 team professional | . Founded in 1986, and one of the most successful British teams during the ... |
| National Football League | ... played college football at Boston College, and played professionally in the | , Canadian Football League, and United States Football League. He first ro ... |
| Primera División | Football is the most important sport on the island, led by the | football league team Real Mallorca with its stadium placed at Palma. Segun ... |
| League Two | The local football teams are Cheltenham Town F.C. who play in | , Bishop's Cleeve who play in the Southern League South & West Division, C ... |
| Liga ASOBAL | ... wn thanks to one of the best Spanish clubs, BM Valladolid. They play in the | . They have won 2 King's Cup, 1 ASOBAL Cup and 1 EHF Cup. They play their ... |
| Major League Baseball | ... Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of | 's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the ... |
| NBA | ... e shows, motor sports events, and more. The Metrapark has hosted Pre-Season | games on a semi-regular basis. On June 20, 2010, the Rimrock Auto Arena wa ... |
| National League | ... roit's first major league entry was the Detroit Wolverines, a member of the | from 1881 through 1888. The nickname, now associated with the University o ... |
| Premier League | ... convert the stadium to an all-seater venue was completed in 1993 was for a | match against Manchester United on 2 February 2000. The game was watched b ... |
| national leagues | ... hi Trophy in 1991, while also being instrumental in the capital club's five | , two and two (consecutive) UEFA Cups |
| Premier League | ... chedule is taken up by Sportsworld, which often includes live commentary of | football matches. On Sundays the international, interdisciplinary discussi ... |
| American League | ... ed run average and 192 strikeouts, the third highest strikeout total in the | behind Sam McDowell and teammate Mickey Lolich. Although he had a curvebal ... |
| League Two | ... At the end of the 2007–08 season the club was relegated again, this time to | , but an immediate return to the third level was secured via the play-offs ... |
| National League | ... s played between—and the rivalry of—the A's and San Francisco Giants of the | . The series takes its name from the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge wh ... |
| Major League Baseball | ... the Yankees (American League) and Queens has the Mets (National League) of | . The Minor League Baseball Brooklyn Cyclones play in Brooklyn, while the ... |
| American Basketball League | ... 1998, Connecticut was home to another professional woman's basketball team, | franchise the New England Blizzard, who played at the Hartford Civic Cente |
| Southern League | ... heltenham Town F.C. who play in League Two, Bishop's Cleeve who play in the | South & West Division, Cheltenham Saracens F.C. in the Hellenic League Pre ... |
| American League | ... e Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's | . From to the present, the Athletics have played in the O.co Coliseum |
| Conference National | ... ying throughout the county, most notably Alfreton Town F.C. who play in the | . The county is also now home to the world's oldest football club, Sheffie ... |
| Premier League | ... , is an English football club based in Tottenham, London, that plays in the | . The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane |
| Deutsche Eishockey Liga | ... Eis- und Rollsport-Club) are an ice hockey team playing in the professional | , having won the championship a total of six times |
| Gloucester Northern Senior League | ... enic League Premier and Cheltenham Civil Service F.C. who play in the local | |
| NASCAR | IMS also hosts the | Sprint Cup Series' Brickyard 400. The first running of the Brickyard 400 w ... |
| Pioneer League | ... ield was a baseball stadium that was the home of the Billings Mustangs, the | Rookie Affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds, since 1948. Cobb Field was named ... |
| Minor league baseball | ... franchises, but minor league sports, including minor league baseball at the | AAA and AA levels Oklahoma City RedHawks and Tulsa Drillers, respectively, ... |
| Hellenic League | ... the Southern League South & West Division, Cheltenham Saracens F.C. in the | Premier and Cheltenham Civil Service F.C. who play in the local Gloucester ... |
| Major League Baseball | ... e AL and the NL each added a fifteenth team, for a total of thirty teams in | . The Arizona Diamondbacks joined the National League, and the Tampa Bay D ... |
| another league | ... in the Real Madrid side (only eight matches, with one goal, as the club won | ), mainly due to the emergence of 17-year old Raúl González, Butragueño si ... |
| Midwest League | ... ome of the minor-league baseball team Cedar Rapids Kernels, a member of the | since 1962. The Kernels are a Class-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Angels ... |
| NASCAR | ... campaign in which she and her fellow Muppets were featured on a select few | Nextel Cup Series race cars |
| Major League Baseball | ... Quebec Nordiques National Hockey League team and the former Montreal Expos | team, the Serie A team Fiorentina, the Major League Soccer team, the Montr ... |
| Southern Association | ... 942, shut down for the war and returned in 1946 as a class A league. The AA | (which never integrated) died after the 1961 season and so the SAL was pro ... |
| Major League Baseball | The Oakland Athletics are a | team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Weste ... |
| Eredivisie | ... is a table with Feyenoord's domestic results, since the introduction of the | in 1956 |
| Peloponnesian League | ... lying with her enemies, Argos and Thessaly. Megara deserted the Spartan-led | and allied herself with Athens, allowing construction of a double line of ... |
| Baseball Philippines | ... country, at the Rizal Memorial Baseball Stadium. The stadium hosts games of | ; Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth were the first players to score a home run at t ... |
| VFL | ... e century on 14 June 1997, celebrating 100 years since the beginning of the | . Gavin Brown was added as the 4th interchange player in 2002, as when the ... |
| Lega Nazionale Professionisti | ... 61 and 2004 it was consigned to the winning clubs at the head office of the | |
| National Lacrosse League | ... League (NHL). It was also the home of the now defunct Arizona Sting of the | (NLL) |
| K-League | Football (Soccer) | team Incheon United |
| American Basketball Association | On June 8, 2010, the | announced that a team would be starting in the Mobile Area. The team will ... |
| National Women's Football Association | ... Talons. Oklahoma City also hosts the Oklahoma City Lightning playing in the | , and Tulsa is the base for the Tulsa 66ers of the NBA Development League ... |
| NASCAR | ... d soft tyres. After studying techniques used at the Indianapolis 500 and in | racing in the United States, the team were able to refuel and re-tyre the ... |
| ECHL | ... down an offer from Phil Esposito to play for the Cincinnati Cyclones of the | . Finland's Hockey Federation unanimously supported letting women play in ... |
| La Liga | ... nce 1955, and one of the only three clubs to have never been relegated from | , along with Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid. In 2009, Barcelona became th ... |
| Frontier League | ... , in the United States. The Otters are a member of the West Division of the | , an independent baseball league which is not affiliated with Major League ... |
| American League | ... ultimately become the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers) the current | , evolving from the minor Western League of 1893, was established in 1901 |
| National Football League | ... bers of the South Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the | (NFL). Previously known as the Houston Oilers, the team began play in 1960 ... |
| Minor league | The New Orleans Pelicans were a | professional baseball team based in New Orleans, Louisiana |
| National Football League | ... to the same premium artificial turf used by the New England Patriots of the | for its main playing field. The Raymond Field modernization was a gift to ... |
| Eredivisie | ... y one of the three clubs that dominate the Dutch national football league ( | ), the others being Ajax and PSV. These three clubs and FC Utrecht are the ... |
| Italian Basketball League | ... h Panathinaikos BC of the Greek Basketball League and Kinder Bologna of the | ), came out in February 2007 on ESPN's Outside the Lines program. He also ... |
| Conference South | ... newly rebuilt Wheatsheaf Park ground and have recently been promoted to the | . Staines Town enjoy a strong rivalry with Hampton & Richmond Borough. Sta ... |
| Philippine Basketball Association | ... rts Complex. Professional basketball also used to play at the city, but the | now holds their games at Araneta Coliseum and Cuneta Astrodome at Pasay; t ... |
| Frontier League | ... n the United States. The Grizzlies are a member of the West Division of the | , which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball. The Grizzlies played ... |
| Football League Championship | ... re founder members of the Premier League in 1992, but currently play in the | , the second tier of English football, where they have been since 2001, fo ... |
| CBA | ... gue. Enid and Lawton host professional basketball teams in the USBL and the | |
| Kent League | ... s as one of the stronger sides in the league, winning a local double of the | and Kent Senior Cup in the 1945–46 season. In the 1946–47 season the team ... |
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| third divisions | ... the following decades between the second - first presence in 1939–40 - and | . In 1977–78, the Galicians won the inaugural edition of Segunda División ... |
| Elitserien | ... al Hockey League, the Czech Extraliga, the Finnish SM-liiga and the Swedish | |
| National League | ... luenced it, so he decided to create a new organization, which he dubbed the | of Baseball Clubs. To aid him in this venture, Hulbert enlisted the help o ... |
| Canadian Interuniversity Sport | ... Axewomen. They participate in the Atlantic University Sports conference of | |
| National Football League | ... a former American football quarterback with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the | (NFL). He is currently a TV analyst and co-host of Fox NFL Sunday. He play ... |
| Premier League | ... ate follower of football. He supports Arsenal FC and was asked to remix the | 's official anthem in 2005 |
| American Association | ... defunct team that had played in Brooklyn prior to them. The team joined the | in 1884 and won the AA championship in 1889 before joining the National Le ... |
| Premier League | Coventry City were founder members of the | in 1992, but currently play in the Football League Championship, the secon ... |
| Anglian Combination | ... s league, whilst Spixworth FC (previously known as AFC Norwich) play in the | . The now-defunct Gothic F.C. were also based in Norwich. Local football c ... |
| Major League Baseball | ... rontier League, an independent baseball league which is not affiliated with | . From the 1995 season to the present, the Otters have played their home g ... |
| Southern Indoor Football League | ... lay its home games on the campus of Davidson High School. Also in 2010, the | announced that a team would be formed in the Mobile Area. The team will be ... |
| International League | McLain began the 1964 season with the Syracuse Chiefs of the | , but was soon promoted back to the major leagues in early June and ended ... |
| Eredivisie | In 2008–2009 AZ won the | , the Dutch football league, and became the Dutch champions for 2008–2009 ... |
| Football Conference | ... t a decline then set in and in 1993 they narrowly avoided relegation to the | . Between 2000 and 2005, Gillingham were in the second tier of the English ... |
| Major League Baseball | In | , the American League Division Series (ALDS) determines which two teams fr ... |
| Frontier League | ... e Otters have reached the playoffs in 7 of their 12 seasons, including five | Championship series, finally winning one in 2006 for their first league ch ... |
| United Soccer Leagues | ... gue plays at the Francisco Montaner Stadium and are expected to play in the | , Division 1, in 2008, becoming the second professional soccer team in Pue ... |
| NFL | ... ter. Also in Glendale is the new University of Phoenix Stadium, home of the | 's Arizona Cardinals and the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, which opened in August ... |
| Eredivisie | ... football in the Netherlands. The professional era commenced with the first | season in 1954/1955. Feijenoord were one of the clubs participating in the ... |
| Suomi-sarja | ... women play in a men's league, allowing her to debut with HC Salamat in the | , the third highest hockey league in Finland, on January 10, 2003. Wickenh ... |
| National Hockey League | ... especially when it echoes a local flag, as with the former Quebec Nordiques | team and the former Montreal Expos Major League Baseball team, the Serie A ... |
| Kontinental Hockey League | ... national competition, featuring clubs from the United States and Canada.The | (KHL), an international ice hockey league in Eurasia and the successor to ... |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | ... ofessor Aronnax in Walt Disney's classic 1954 film version of Jules Verne's | . By that time, however, he was, at age 63, suffering from memory problems ... |
| National Football League | ... al Football League Kickoff game#Pre-game concerts). Preceded by a three-day | "interactive Super Bowl theme park", the event had primarily commercial pu ... |
| League of Ireland | ... Banks was voted Best Goalkeeper in the NASL. He then had a short stint with | side St. Patrick's Athletic F.C.; he played just the once – a home game at ... |
| CHL | ... ly, hockey with the Oklahoma City Barons in the AHL and Tulsa Oilers in the | , and arena football in the Arena Football League is hosted by the Tulsa T ... |
| OK Liga | ... EiEG, one of the most important in Spain, which competes in the main League | |
| Major League Baseball | ... r of the West Division of the Frontier League, which is not affiliated with | . The Grizzlies played their home games during their inaugural 2001 season ... |
| WNBA | ... ing Madison Square Garden their permanent home. The New York Liberty of the | have shared the Garden with the Knicks since their creation in 1997 as one ... |
| Indoor Football League | ... ress is an indoor football team which was founded in 2003. They play in the | . Their home games are played in the 5,260-seat San Angelo Coliseum. Their ... |
| Appalachian League | ... to the 2010 U.S. Census. It hosts the Danville Braves baseball club of the | . closed its local mill in 2006, leaving a large number of Danvillians wit ... |
| English football league system | ... onference. Between 2000 and 2005, Gillingham were in the second tier of the | for the only time in their history, achieving a club record highest league ... |
| National Association of Base Ball Players | ... le baseball expanded into a national game, as its first governing body, The | was formed. The NABBP soon expanded into a true national organization, alt ... |
| Segunda División | ... lar. The local Football club is Girona FC, currently playing in the Spanish | after promotion in the 2007-08 season in the playoffs. Its stadium is Esta ... |
| All-America Football Conference | ... the Yanks in 1950, and many of the players from the New York Yankees of the | were added to the team. The Yanks moved to Dallas after the 1951 season, b ... |
| Northwoods League | ... ullfrogs, the Wisconsin Woodchucks, and the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters of the | , a collegiate all-star summer league. In arena football Wisconsin is repr ... |
| National Rugby League | ... ern France and Papua New Guinea. The European Super League and Australasian | are the premier club competitions. Rugby league is played internationally, ... |
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| Dutch Championships | ... rom the Dutch first division. In domestic competition, Feyenoord has won 14 | , 11 Dutch Cups and two Dutch Supercups, in addition to the European Cup, ... |
| National Hockey League | ... y Federation (IIHF) and of the Canadian founded and North American expanded | (NHL).Ice hockey is played on a hockey rink. During normal play, there are ... |
| Golden Baseball League | ... te Wildcats baseball team, in NCAA Division 2, and the Chico Outlaws of the | |
| International League | ... ty was relegated to minor league status. One new club formed and joined the | in 1889, and promptly won the league championship. Their fans' joy came to ... |
| División de Honor de Rugby | CR El Salvador, current champions of Spain's | compete in the European Challenge Cup. They play their matches at Estadio ... |
| United States Football League | ... ofessionally in the National Football League, Canadian Football League, and | . He first rose to prominence during his career at Boston College, where h ... |
| Mestis | ... Wickenheiser played briefly with Salamat in 2004. They had won promotion to | , Finland's second tier of professional hockey, and this was not as good a ... |
| American League | ... American League Division Series (ALDS) determines which two teams from the | will advance to the American League Championship Series. The Division Seri ... |
| Puerto Rico Baseball League | ... th a won-loss record of 4-5. He then played for the Mayaguez Indians in the | , where he posted a 13-2 record and helped the Indians win the league cham ... |
| Premier Soccer League | ... er in South Africa, is also popular. Three clubs from Cape Town play in the | (PSL), South Africa's premier league. These teams are Ajax Cape Town, whic ... |
| Karnataka Premier League | ... allengers, the Premier Hockey League franchise Bangalore Hi-fliers, and the | franchisees Bangalore Brigadiers and Provident Bangalore are based in the ... |
| La Liga | As of 18 December 2011, Barcelona has won 21 | , 25 Copa del Rey, 10 Supercopa de España, 3 Copa Eva Duarte and 2 Copa de ... |
| La Liga | ... Santander one of the historic and certainly that was one of the founders of | , play their home games at the Campos de Sport de El Sardinero. Racing de ... |
| Indoor Football League | ... ons. Cedar Rapids Titans are a professional football team that plays in the | . There is also a junior hockey league, the Cedar Rapids Hockey Associatio ... |
| United League Baseball | The San Angelo Colts minor league baseball team is a member of | . The first professional team to use the Colts name was founded in 1922. T ... |
| Somalia League | ... Stadium, which plays host to the Somalia Cup and to football teams from the | . The New Somali Youth League grassroots organization based in Mogadishu h ... |
| Segunda División B | ... visión football league team Real Mallorca with its stadium placed at Palma. | team CD Atlético Baleares also play in Palma at the 18,000 capacity Estadi ... |
| National League A | ... ing to national championships were in place. One of the first was the Swiss | , founded in 1916. Today, professional leagues have been introduced in mos ... |
| KHL | ... started the 2010-11 season with rookie goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky from the | in Russia, who recorded an opening-night win in his NHL debut against Pitt ... |
| AAFC | ... ut as a starter, Mac Speedie, the receiver he was assigned to cover, set an | record for receiving yards in the game. It was after the game that Landry ... |
| Continental League | ... expansion franchise to the owners of the New York franchise in the abortive | , provided that a new stadium be built. Mayor Robert Wagner, Jr. had to pe ... |
| NHL | Manhattan is home to the NBA's New York Knicks, the | 's New York Rangers, and the WNBA's New York Liberty, who all play their h ... |
| Western Carolinas League | ... outh Atlantic League came into being in 1980 as the successor to the former | |
| All-American Girls Professional Baseball League | ... n Kellogg (born November 6, 1922 in Jackson, Michigan) is an alumnus of the | having played for the Minneapolis Millerettes and the Fort Wayne Daisies b ... |
| Women's United Soccer Association | ... cer. In 2001 she signed for the Washington Freedom in the newly established | . The league suspended operations indefinitely in September 2003, but Hamm ... |
| American League | Eleven weeks later, on July 5, 1947, the | was integrated by the signing of Larry Doby to the Cleveland Indians. Over ... |
| National Hockey League | ... oducing the system of minor and major penalties. After re-organizing as the | (NHL) in 1917, the league expanded into the United States in 1924 |
| National Hockey League | ... g installed under the ice surface to help the ice stay frozen. His favorite | team is the Boston Bruins. He is also a Boston Red Sox fan, as well as a f ... |
| National Football League | ... bers of the South Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the | (NFL) |
| Indoor Football League | ... y of the Tri-City Americans of the Western Hockey League, as well as of the | 's Tri-Cities Fever. They both play their home games in the Toyota Center, ... |
| National League | ... the National Agreement and declared itself major, openly competing with the | for players, and for fans in three contested cities. For a few years there ... |
| NHL | The | 's Phoenix Coyotes and NLL's Arizona Sting began playing in Glendale when ... |
| KIT League | Fulton is home to the Fulton Railroaders, a team in the | , a minor league baseball league. The Railroaders play their home games in ... |
| National Hockey Association | In 1910, the | (NHA) was formed in Montreal. The NHA would further refine the rules, drop ... |
| NLL | The NHL's Phoenix Coyotes and | 's Arizona Sting began playing in Glendale when Jobing.com Arena (formerly ... |
| La Liga | ... ing to UEFA's league coefficient behind the English Premier League, Spanish | , and German Bundesliga, which is based on the performance of Italian club ... |
| La Liga | ... etic Bilbao was one of the founding members of the Spanish football league, | , and has played in the Primera División (First Division) ever since - win ... |
| NBA | Manhattan is home to the | 's New York Knicks, the NHL's New York Rangers, and the WNBA's New York Li ... |
| American League | When the Western renamed itself the | for 1900, it was still a minor league, but next year it broke with the Nat ... |
| Puerto Rico Soccer League | ... to Club Atlético River Plate Puerto Rico football team, which plays in the | . The league plays at the Francisco Montaner Stadium and are expected to p ... |
| American Association | ... n the National League pennant and an exhibition World Series, defeating the | champion St. Louis Browns, ten games to five. All 15 scheduled games of th ... |
| NFL | The | 's New York Giants played their 1975 season at Shea while Giants Stadium w ... |
| AAFC | Landry played in the | in 1949 for the New York Yankees, then moved in 1950 across town to the Ne ... |
| NASCAR | The Third-generation Taurus had a presence in | , replacing the Thunderbird after the 1997 season. The Taurus became the f ... |
| National Football League | De Benneville "Bert" Bell (February 25, 1895 – October 11, 1959) was the | (NFL) commissioner from 1946 until his death in 1959. As commissioner, he ... |
| SM-liiga | ... ope include the Kontinental Hockey League, the Czech Extraliga, the Finnish | and the Swedish Elitserien |
| National Association of Base Ball Players | ... 1857, sixteen New York area clubs, including the Knickerbockers, formed the | (NABBP). The NABBP was the first organization to govern the sport and to e ... |
| Western League | The current Detroit club was a charter member when the | reorganized for the 1894 season. They originally played at Boulevard Park, ... |
| KBL | The | team Incheon ET Land Elephants |
| CFL | Flutie is the older brother of the | 's third all-time receptions leader, Darren Flutie. Flutie also has an old ... |
| Western Carolinas League | The South Atlantic League name went unused for 16 years, but in 1980 the | brought back the name when it sought to change its identity. For nearly 60 ... |
| Czech Extraliga | ... urope. The top leagues in Europe include the Kontinental Hockey League, the | , the Finnish SM-liiga and the Swedish Elitserien |
| National League | ... World Series, more times than any other pair of teams from the American and | s. The initial significance was embodied in the two teams' proximity in Ne ... |
| NFL | ... ts, representing the University in 7 MLB World Series, 5 NBA Finals, and 25 | Super Bowls. In baseball, BYU alumni include All-Stars Rick Aguilera '83, ... |
| Super League | ... , Paris Saint-Germain was one of eleven teams which formed the new European | , although the club was dissolved in 1997 due to its failure to run at a p ... |
| USL Premier Development League | Ocean City Nor'easters of the | play at Carey Stadium |
| Football League Two | ... nian side Vélez Sársfield both had Pirelli as a shirt sponsor. When English | side Burton Albion Football Club built their new stadium in 2005, Pirelli ... |
| La Liga | ... 9, Barcelona became the first club in Spain to win the treble consisting of | , Copa del Rey, and the Champions League. That same year, it also became t ... |
| Sierra Leone National Premier League | ... ierra Leonean football club based in the capital Freetown. They play in the | , the top football league in the country. Blackpool represent the West End ... |
| Kent League | ... o Bexley Athletic Club and Erith Town F.C. ('The Dockers'), who play in the | . (Note Erith & Belvedere F.C. play in Welling.) Erith Rugby Club play at ... |
| Indoor Football League | ... sed in the city. Bethlehem is also home to the Lehigh Valley Steelhawks, an | team who began playing their home games at Stabler Arena in Bethlehem in 2 ... |
| National League | ... . No City Series was held in 1901 and 1902 due to legal warring between the | and American League |
| Midwest League | ... nhospitable home for professional baseball. The Madison Muskies, a Class A, | affiliate of the Oakland A's, left town in 1993 after 11 seasons. The Madi ... |
| NFL's | Millsaps was the summer training camp home for the | New Orleans Saints in 2006, 2007, and 2008 |
| Super League | ... ctional radio station "Wave 103". Sky Sports used the song as the intro for | in the late 2000s and the X Factor frequently use the song for the contest ... |
| Latvian Hockey League | ... here is also a hockey team called DHK Latgale, which currently plays in the | . The Speedway Grand Prix of Latvia was hosted here between 2006 and 2009. ... |
| Football League Championship | ... on & Hove Albion's Steve Coppell. Coppell took the Royals to seventh in the | , missing out on a place in the play-offs by three points |
| National Football League | The Los Angeles area media market currently lacks a | team. After the 1994 season, the Los Angeles Rams moved to St. Louis, Miss ... |
| Campeonato Brasileiro Série A | ... ldest in the city. Founded in 1908, they play in the Campeonato Mineiro and | or Brasileirão. Atlético Mineiro have been Brazilian champions once, state ... |
| Serie D | ... ign non-EU player from abroad, except those followed the club promoted from | |
| USFL | ... s helmet" at the age of 43 and retire. Flutie was the second to last former | player to retire, behind Sean Landeta |
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| National Hockey League | ... niversity of Phoenix Stadium, and is the home of the Phoenix Coyotes of the | (NHL). It was also the home of the now defunct Arizona Sting of the Nation ... |
| Kontinental Hockey League | ... troduced in most countries of Europe. The top leagues in Europe include the | , the Czech Extraliga, the Finnish SM-liiga and the Swedish Elitserien |
| Premier League | ... sports stars such as Tanni Grey-Thompson and Colin Jackson as well as many | , Football League and international footballers, such as Craig Bellamy, Ga ... |
| American League | ... ty and Toledo. Prior to the 1900 season, the league changed its name to the | and moved several franchises to larger, strategic locations. In 1901 the A ... |
| Segunda División B | ... and third divisions. In 1977–78, the Galicians won the inaugural edition of | and promoted again, only to be immediately relegated back |
| Alliance Premier League | Banks had a short career in management with | side Telford United, he spent the 1979–80 season before being sacked after ... |
| Conference | ... its Football League status in 2000, only to reclaim it four years later as | champions, but were relegated again in 2009 and went out of business in Ma ... |
| National Rugby League | ... Emirates, on 1 March 2009. Telstra is also the naming rights sponsor of the | Premiership. Telstra is also the principal sponsor of Swimming Australia. ... |
| Western League | ... ub has won five Football League titles, five Southern League titles and one | title. The 2009–10 season was the club's 42nd in the second tier of Englis ... |
| Florida Winter Baseball League | In 2009, the Space Coast Surge, a member of the | , had the Cocoa Stadium as their home stadium |
| National Basketball Association | ... entury later, all NFL teams covet pass rushers who resemble thickly muscled | (NBA) power forwards |
| Women's National Basketball Association | ... y Thunder of the National Basketball Association and the Tulsa Shock of the | are the state's only major league sports franchises, but minor league spor ... |
| 2009 Major League Soccer season | Prior to the | , Amway Global signed a three-year deal with the San Jose Earthquakes to b ... |
| Segunda División B | ... e season, it returned to level two, staying there until 1990, the year of a | relegation |
| BBL Championship | ... he city also has a professional basketball team in the national league, the | . Cheshire Jets play at the city's Northgate Arena leisure centre; and a w ... |
| Bundesliga (baseball) | ... nd German Basketball Association and the Hannover Regents play in the third | division |
| Football Conference | ... 992–93 Division Three campaign the Gills narrowly avoided relegation to the | |
| All-America Football Conference | ... more Colts". The original incarnation of the Baltimore Colts started in the | in 1946 as the Miami Seahawks. After a 3-11 season, The team was purchased ... |
| National Football League | The New York Jets of the American Football League and later, the | played at Shea for twenty seasons, from 1964 to 1983 (excluding their firs ... |
| National League A | ... or its famous Ice hockey team, which is the HC Davos, who play in the Swiss | . Their home arena is the Vaillant Arena |
| United Counties League | Long Buckby A.F.C. currently plays at Station Road. They are members of the | Premier Division. The club's highest achievement was reaching the 2nd Roun ... |
| Class A | ... ty Dust Devils baseball club of the Northwest League. The Dust Devils are a | team of the Colorado Rockies. The team plays during summer months during i ... |
| American League | ... can Association Philadelphia Athletics. When the Athletics first joined the | , the two teams played each other in a spring and fall series. No City Ser ... |
| Western League | ... eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the | . The Tigers have won four World Series championships (1935, 1945, 1968, a ... |
| Canadian Interuniversity Sport | ... hers have nine teams playing in the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) and the | (CIS), including men's and women's ice hockey, soccer, basketball, as well ... |
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| National League Division Two | ... , Hellesdon. The Norwich Stars raced in the Northern League of 1946 and the | between 1947 and 1951, winning it in 1951. They were subsequently elevated ... |
| National League | ... hise. The Bronx has the Yankees (American League) and Queens has the Mets ( | ) of Major League Baseball. The Minor League Baseball Brooklyn Cyclones pl ... |
| Super League | ... rease in juniors of both genders nationwide. Currently, two of the fourteen | teams in the northern hemisphere originate from outside of the sport's tra ... |
| National Indoor Football League | Medford also hosted a professional indoor football team from the | known as the Southern Oregon Heat in 2001. It played in the Compton Arena ... |
| NASCAR | ... at Lansdowne Resort and Kingsmill Resort, home of the Michelob ULTRA Open. | currently schedules Sprint Cup races on two tracks in Virginia: Martinsvil ... |
| National Football League | ... d side-by-side with their baseball namesakes from the time they entered the | in 1925, until crossing over to Yankee Stadium in 1956. The , originally k ... |
| American League | ... home runs. At the time of his last major league game in 2003, the ten-time | (AL) All-Star ranked among the sport's top 100 all-time home run hitters a ... |
| National League | ... all games played between the Athletics and the Philadelphia Phillies of the | that ran from 1903 through 1955. After the A's move to Kansas City in , th ... |
| Kansai Independent Baseball League | ... ever to play in Japanese professional baseball for the Kobe 9 Cruise of the | . On March 2, 2010, she trained with Tim Wakefield at the Boston Red Sox m ... |
| Southern League | ... ng professional in 1903, the club has won five Football League titles, five | titles and one Western League title. The 2009–10 season was the club's 42n ... |
| National Basketball Association | ... oma City, Tulsa, Enid, Norman, and Lawton. The Oklahoma City Thunder of the | and the Tulsa Shock of the Women's National Basketball Association are the ... |
| International Professional Hockey League | ... ned with teams in Michigan and Ontario to form the first fully professional | (IPHL), in 1904. The IPHL hired numerous players from Canada, and Canadian ... |
| Fußball-Bundesliga | ... in the 4th tier Regionalliga Süd, but who have played in the top tier, the | ; and VfR Mannheim, winner of the German championship in 1949, now playing ... |
| National Rugby League | ... st cricketers, olympic shooters and hockey players, and many players in the | . The Northern Inland Academy of Sport is one important institution in the ... |
| La Liga | ... is awarded annually to the Spanish national with the highest goal total in | . It is named in the memory of the late Athletic Bilbao striker Telmo Zarr ... |
| Conference National | ... he third tier of the English leagues. Torquay United were promoted from the | after winning the play-off final at Wembley in June 2009. Two years earlie ... |
| Western League | ... still located in its original city. Detroit is also the only member of the | , the AL's minor league predecessor, that remains in its original city und ... |
| AAFC | ... ion into the NFL constitution. He negotiated the merger of the NFL with the | . He developed regular season schedules with the purpose of increasing the ... |
| Negro Leagues | ... of professional sports in the United States, the concomitant demise of the | , and is regarded as a key moment in the history of the American Civil Rig ... |
| Appalachian League | The Kingsport Mets of the | , a rookie-level baseball league, play in the city. An affiliate of the Ne ... |
| Golden Baseball League | ... wice. On May 9, 2005, Henderson signed with the San Diego Surf Dawgs of the | , an independent league. This was the SurfDawgs' and the Golden Baseball L ... |
| Western Pennsylvania Hockey League | ... ofessional ice hockey has existed from the early 20th century. By 1902, the | was the first to openly employ professionals. The league joined with teams ... |
| Union Association | The | survived for only one season (1884), as did the Players League (1890), an ... |
| American League | ... oes not have a professional baseball franchise. The Bronx has the Yankees ( | ) and Queens has the Mets (National League) of Major League Baseball. The ... |
| Bundesliga | ... ions League(from the 2012-13 season this will be cut to three, as Germany's | has leap-frogged Serie A into the top three biggest European leagues). The ... |
| Tercera División | Founded in 1919, in currently plays in | , holding home games at Estadio de la Malata. Club colours are green shirt ... |
| AAFC | After the 1949 season the | folded, and the New York Yankees were not among the teams absorbed by the ... |
| National Hockey League | The New York Rangers of the | have played in the various locations of Madison Square Garden since their ... |
| National Basketball Association | ... sed and the building opened on Feb. 17, 1968, less than one month after the | played its 18th All-Star Game. The Basketball Hall of Fame's Board named f ... |
| Major League Baseball | ... . He parlayed his theatrical accomplishment to address an annual meeting of | club owners, demanding they admit black players into the league. He toured ... |
| WNBA | ... n is home to the NBA's New York Knicks, the NHL's New York Rangers, and the | 's New York Liberty, who all play their home games at Madison Square Garde ... |
| Suomi-sarja | ... ayley Wickenheiser played with the Kirkkonummi Salamat in the Finnish men's | league. Several women have competed in North American minor leagues, inclu ... |
| South East Australian Basketball League | The Albury Wodonga Bandits compete in the | (SEABL) East Conference of the Australian Basketball Association (ABA) pla ... |
| Conference National | ... ball League after 80 years of membership and spent two years playing in the | ; this downfall came just three years after promotion from the league's ba ... |
| Australian Basketball Association | ... the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL) East Conference of the | (ABA) playing their home games at the Albury Sports Stadium. (known now as ... |
| NBA | ... etball where players are allowed to commit only 5 fouls in a game (6 in the | ), handball players are allowed an unlimited number of "faults", which are ... |
| Canadian Football League | ... for the BC Lions, Edmonton Eskimos, and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He is the | 's third all-time leader in catches, behind Ben Cahoon and Terry Vaughn; h ... |
| Chinese Super League | ... nt, Staffordshire, England. In 2009 Pirelli became the title sponsor of the | (CSL), China's top tier football league |
| Major League Soccer | ... Montreal Expos Major League Baseball team, the Serie A team Fiorentina, the | team, the Montreal Impact, the New Orleans Saints American football team, ... |
| National Football League | ... timore Colts in 1947 from a name the team contest. In 1950, they joined the | along with the Cleveland Browns and San Francisco 49ers. They were a surpr ... |
| Major League Baseball | ... rson (born December 25, 1958 as Rickey Nelson Henley) is an American former | left fielder who played for nine teams from 1979 to 2003, including four s ... |