Kansas City used to have an NBA team, which had originated in 1945 in Rochester, New York ( as the Rochester Royals ), before becoming the Cincinnati Royals.

The Hawks shifted from " Tri-Cities " ( the area now known as the Quad Cities ) to Milwaukee ( in 1951 ) and then to St. Louis, Missouri ( in 1955 ); the Royals from Rochester, New York to Cincinnati ( in 1957 ); and the Pistons from Fort Wayne, Indiana to Detroit ( in 1957 ).

Buck also broadcast for the St. Louis Hawks and Rochester Royals of the National Basketball Association, and called professional wrestling, boxing, and bowling at various times in his career.

In the playoffs, they defeated the Indianapolis Olympians in three games but lost to the Rochester Royals in the next round.

Although they defeated the Rochester Royals in the first round of the playoffs, they were defeated by the Fort Wayne Pistons in the semifinals.

** Rochester Royals win 4 games to 3 over the New York Knicks

In 1946, Sheboygan was swept in the finals by the league's newest member, the powerhouse Rochester Royals, who boasted Hall of Famers Al Cervi, Bob Davies and Red Holzman.

Three teams joined the NBA in 1948: the Minneapolis Lakers ( now the Los Angeles Lakers ), the Rochester Royals ( now the Sacramento Kings ), and the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons ( now the Detroit Pistons ).

* Rochester Royals ( 1945 – 48 )*

In the playoffs, the Nats would be beaten by the fellow upstate neighbor Rochester Royals in 4 games.

The logo of the Rochester Royals

The Royals started in the city of Rochester, New York, as the Rochester Royals of the National Basketball League.

With this in mind, the 1956 – 57 season was the Royals ' last in Rochester.

The Royals ' twelve-year stay in Rochester featured the services of nine future members of the Basketball Hall of Fame, one member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and a Hollywood Walk of Famer: Al Cervi, Bob Davies, Alex Hannum, Les Harrison, Red Holzman, Arnie Risen, Maurice Stokes, Jack Twyman, Bobby Wanzer, Otto Graham, and Chuck Connors.

In the post season, Mikan fractured his leg before the 1951 Western Division Finals against the Rochester Royals.

Mikan also had a truly dominating game that season, in which he scored a personal-best 61 points in a double overtime victory against the Rochester Royals.

* Minneapolis Lakers win three games to one over the Rochester Royals

* Chicago American Gears win three games to two over the Rochester Royals

The New York National Guard were ordered by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller to respond to the Rochester 1964 race riot in July of that year, the first such use of the Guard in a Northern city since the Civil War.

Later on, the Valley Forge and Rochester divisions were spun off to form a new joint company with National Cash Register ( later NCR Corporation ), Computer Peripherals Inc ( CPI ), in order to share development and production costs across the two companies.

Fudan University has established exchange relationships with more than 200 universities and research institutions in about 30 countries and regions, including Oklahoma State University, Beloit College, Washington University in St. Louis, Harvard University, Yale University, Trinity College ( Connecticut ), Tulane University, Durham University Business School, Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Rochester, Georgetown University, Instituto de Empresa ( IE Business School ), University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, San Diego, University of California, Irvine, the University of Toronto, Queen's University at Kingston, Canada, University of Sydney, Rhodes University, K. U. Leuven at Leuven, Flanders, Europe, Tokyo University, National University of Singapore, the London School of Economics, the University of Manchester, ESSEC, University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Sciences Po Paris and Institut d ' études politiques de Lille.

All five social sororities recognized by Rochester Institute of Technology are active members of the National Panhellenic Conference.

Crayola Crayons were inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong in Rochester, New York, in 1998.

The Duncan yo-yo was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong in Rochester, New York, in 1999.

A number of Rochester buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places, including the former Chateau Theatre, which now houses a Barnes & Noble bookstore, and Avalon Music, formerly a hotel important in the local civil rights movement.

Springville is home to five National Register of Historic Places-listed ( NRHP ) buildings ( Citizens National Bank ; Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad Station ; Baptist Church of Springville ; United States Post Office ; Scobey Power Plant and Dam ) and the NRHP-listed East Main-Mechanic Streets Historic District.

Also listed on the National Register are Breezedale, Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway Indiana Passenger Station, Silas M. Clark House, Graff's Market, James Mitchell House, Old Indiana County Courthouse, Indiana Borough 1912 Municipal Building, Indiana Armory, Old Indiana County Jail and Sheriff's Office, and John Sutton Hall.

The Brockwayville Passenger Depot, Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

* Rochester Castle information from National Monuments Record

* The Rochester Griffens defeat the Philadelphia Wings in the six game National Lacrosse League ( 1974-75 ) championship, 4 games to 2 games.

Eventually nine universities ( Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Rochester and Yale came together, and on 31 January 1947, a contract was signed with the Atomic Energy Commission ( AEC ), which had replaced the Manhattan Project, that established the Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Slinky was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong in Rochester, New York, in 2000.

In 2005, the game was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong in Rochester, New York.

* The Toronto Rock beat the Rochester Knighthawks 13 – 10 to win the National Lacrosse League Championship.

The National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, is host to a permanent exhibit, " The Berenstain Bears — Down a Sunny Dirt Road.

The Rochester Jeffersons from Rochester, New York played in the National Football League from 1920 to 1925.

The league was originally divided into the American Division — Boston, Bridgeport ( moved to Philadelphia in 2004 ) and Long Island — and the National Division — Baltimore ( moved to Washington after the 2006 season and to Annapolis after the 2008 season ), New Jersey, and Rochester — from 2001 until 2005.

The Rochester Knighthawks ( sometimes abbreviated as the K-Hawks ) are a professional lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League.

In 2000, Mr. Potato Head was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong in Rochester, NY.

After the 1947 – 48 season, Mikan's Lakers and three other NBL clubs left to join the Basketball Association of America ( Rochester, Fort Wayne, and Indianapolis ).

The 2007 – 2008 East Rochester Boys Basketball team won a sectional title, the team's first since 1963.

Bradley Ernest Davis ( born on December 17, 1955, in Rochester, Pennsylvania ) is a retired professional basketball player who spent the bulk of his National Basketball Association career with the Dallas Mavericks.

After being honorably discharged in 1958, Brown briefly played for the Rochester Colonels of the Eastern Professional Basketball League ( the forerunner to the Continental Basketball Association ) before they folded after just eight games.

* Jack Twyman-Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Guard / Forward, Rochester / Cincinnati Royals

Playing for the National Basketball Association's Rochester Royals ( which became the Cincinnati Royals in 1957 ) from 1955 to 1958, Stokes grabbed 38 rebounds in a single game during his rookie season, averaged 16. 3 rebounds per game overall, and was named NBA Rookie of the Year.

From 2003 to 2007, the basketball coach was Andre McCarter, MVP for the Rochester, New York Zeniths of the Continental Basketball Association in the 1978 – 79 season.

Robert Rose ( born December 27, 1964, in Rochester, New York ) is a retired American / Australian professional basketball player in the Australian National Basketball League.