The Patchogue Chamber of Commerce, Knights of Columbus Council 725, Kiwanis, Rotarians and Lions, along with religious institutions, provide support and to residents and business people in the town.

The numerous civic agencies such as the Elks, American Legion, Rotary, Masons, Knights of Columbus and Lions Club hold regular events to involve the citizens of the borough.

Carroll capped off the undefeated ' 60 season with a thrilling 57 – 55 win over St Catherine's in the Knights of Columbus Tournament with Thompson pacing the Lions with fifteen points.

* Ohio Derby: Columbus Crew ( MLS ) vs. Dayton Dutch Lions ( USL Pro ) or Cincinnati Kings / Cleveland Internationals ( PDL ).

It is home to the Columbus Cottonmouths ice hockey team, Auburn University ice hockey team, and the Columbus Lions indoor football team.

* Columbus Lions, a charter member of the World Indoor Football League

West Virginia Chaos, which is part of the larger Chaos soccer club, joined the PDL in 2003, but suffered a disappointing first season, ending in 6th and last place in the Mid-Atlantic Division with a 2-14-1 record ; their only wins came over Greenville Lions in May, 1-0 off a goal by Stuart Bracher, and over the Columbus Shooting Stars in June, 3-2 with goals by Thomas Whittaker, Benjamini Chavolla and Hans Schubert.

The axed teams were Kansas City Cowboys, Los Angeles Buccaneers, Detroit Panthers, Hartford Blues, Brooklyn Lions, Canton Bulldogs, Milwaukee Badgers, Akron Indians, Racine Tornadoes, Columbus Tigers, Hammond Pros, and Louisville Colonels.

It is said that, even at the present stage of Southern urbanization, such a city as Atlanta is not distinctly unlike Columbus or Trenton.

* Columbus Cottonmouths, Southern Professional Hockey League team

Beginning with the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus, over nearly four centuries the Spanish Empire would expand across: most of present day Central America, the Caribbean islands, and Mexico ; much of the rest of North America including the Southwestern, Southern coastal, and California Pacific Coast regions of the United States ; and though inactive, with claimed territory in present day British Columbia Canada ; and U. S. states of Alaska, Washington, and Oregon ; and the western half of South America.

In August 1492, Columbus sailed from the Andalusian port of Palos de la Frontera in Southern Spain, and arrived on the island of Guanahani, in the Bahamas, on 12 October 1492.

Columbus contains approximately 200 Christian churches, with the Southern Baptist Convention being the largest denomination by number of churches.

Columbus is a relatively flat place in the Northern part of Lowndes County the land rises for a short period of time into hills and bluffs, in the Southern / Eastern part of the county the land has rolling hills that quickly turn into flatland floodplains that dominate this county.

Columbus is the eastern terminus of the Columbus and Greenville Railway ; it is also served by the BNSF Railway ( on the original right-of-way of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway ), the Norfolk Southern, and the CN ( using the original right-of-way of the Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio ).

The two railroads that crossed in Moorhead were the Southern in Mississippi ( SRinM ) which became the Columbus and Greenville and east-west line and the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley ( Y & MV ) know as the " Yellow Dog " for laying track across the SRinM without permission.

West of Bayview Avenue ( from Sunrise Highway to Albany Avenue ), northwest of Albany Avenue ( from Bayview to just past Rainbow Lane ), south of an imaginary border that stretches from from Albany Avenue to Johnson Street, west of another unclear border that cross the properties between Johnson Street, Dubois Avenue, Columbus Boulevard, and Great Neck Road, and southwest of Great Neck Road ( from Colombus Boulevard to the Southern State Parkway ), is within the Amityville Union Free School District.

Northeast of Great Neck Road ( from Columbus Boulevard to the Southern State Parkway ) and west of an imaginary line that stretches from the northeastern corner of the Columbus Boulevard / Great Neck Road intersection to the Southern State parkway just west of Cedar Road, is within the Farmingdale Union Free School District.

In 1902, the Columbus and Southern Railroad began to operate between Wyandotte Junction, a connection with the Pennsylvania Railroad line, in Fairfield County, and the coal mines in Hocking, Vinton and Athens Counties.

From Bellevue, Norfolk Southern Lines extend northeast to Cleveland, north to Sandusky, northwest to Toledo, west to Fort Wayne, Indiana and south to Columbus.

It is also at that time that Dirk Martens, a local citizen, became the Southern Netherlands ’ first printer, founding a printing shop in 1473 that published books by various authors including Christopher Columbus ; Martens would later become a professor at the Catholic University of Leuven.

The Sounds won the series two games to one before advancing to the Southern League championship series against the Columbus Astros.

Retired chemistry professor and folklorist John Garst, of the University of Georgia, has argued that the contest instead happened at the Coosa Mountain Tunnel or the Oak Mountain Tunnel of the Columbus & Western Railway ( now part of Norfolk Southern Railway ) near Leeds on September 20, 1887.

Because U. S. government regulation of airline routes prohibited Southern from operating flights from New York or Washington, D. C. nonstop to Atlanta, Southern had multiple daily flights from New York and Washington nonstop to Columbus, Georgia, then on to Dothan, Alabama ; Mobile, Alabama ; Panama City, Florida, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida ; and / or Gulfport / Biloxi, Mississippi.

In 1996-97 the Huntsville Channel Cats, along with the planned 1996 – 97 Southern Hockey League expansion teams Columbus Cottonmouths, Macon Whoopee, and Nashville Nighthawks, joined the Central Hockey League following the SHL's demise.

Born in Columbus, Ohio, Biggs attended the University of Southern California on scholarship, studying theatre.

She graduated from Troy High School in Troy, Ohio, in 1977, then received a Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, in biological science from Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, in 1980, a Master of Science degree in safety engineering from the University of Southern California in 1985, and a Doctorate in industrial engineering from the University of Houston in 1997.

Brentson André Buckner ( born September 30, 1971 in Columbus, Georgia ) is a Head Coach of the Charlotte Speed of the Indoor Football League, and a former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League.

The Columbus Destroyers were an Arena Football League ( AFL ) team based in Columbus, Ohio.

The Buffalo Destroyers moved to Columbus after the 2003 Arena Football League season.

The rights to the " Columbus Destroyers " and " Buffalo Destroyers " brands are currently held, along with the rest of the league, with Arena Football League.

1921 Columbus Panhandles of the National Football League

Prior to that, the Columbus Bullies of the American Football League ( 1940 ) played the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 1941 in a three-game series, which Columbus won, 2 games to 1.

Instead, the Blue Bombers were invited to play the Columbus Bullies of the American Football League of 1940 ; although Columbus won the three-game series, 2 games to 1, the one game Winnipeg won gives them a distinction of being one of only two current CFL teams to have defeated a top-level professional American football team ( the other being the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, who defeated the modern-day Buffalo Bills in a 1961 game ).

Hunt co-founded the World Championship Tennis and was also the founder and owner of the National Football League's Kansas City Chiefs, the Kansas City Wizards and at his death owned two MLS teams, Columbus Crew and FC Dallas.

* Columbus Bullies win the American Football League championship with a record of 5 – 1 – 2.

In the local Columbus area, it is the site for the annual Westerville Football Classic, featuring the Westerville Central, Westerville North, Westerville South, and New Albany football teams.

Established as the Columbus Thunderbolts and playing its home games at the Ohio Expo Center Coliseum, the team relocated to Cleveland after a winless single season in the Arena Football League in 1991.

* Columbus Destroyers, an Arena Football League team

He helped to reorganize the American Professional Football Association ( APFA ) in 1921, and moved the offices from Canton to Columbus, Ohio.

In October 2005, Ron Selesky, formerly of the Arena Football League's Columbus Destroyers, Carolina Cobras and Tampa Bay Storm, as well as the af2's Albany Conquest and Louisville Fire, was hired as the team's second coach.

However, Columbus by this time was the largest American city without a major professional sports franchise competing in one of the following leagues representing sports traditionally contested in the United States, i. e. those of Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, or the National Hockey League.

Formerly a member of the Independent Women's Football League in their inaugural season of 2002, and then the National Women's Football Association from 2003 until 2008, they have made the playoffs in six of seven seasons played so far, losing four times in the Conference Championship Game ( two to the Pensacola Power in 2003 and 2005 and once to the Austin Outlaws in 2002 and the Columbus Comets in 2007 ) and losing twice in the NWFA Championship Game ( to the Detroit Demolition in 2004 and to the D. C. Divas in 2006 ).

While playing for the Columbus Crew, Jon Busch also trained goalkeepers in Columbus ' youth soccer league, the Ohio Football Club.

* 2010 Columbus Dispatch Ohio College Football Coach of the Year

From 1939 through 1941, Cooper Stadium ( then named Red Bird Stadium ) was also home to the Columbus Bullies, two time champions of the third American Football League.

Businessman, owner and founder of the Kansas City Chiefs, FC Dallas, Columbus Crew and a founder of the American Football League and Major League Soccer.