He developed an interest in rugby union, playing at Oxford and later for the Little Rock Rugby club in Arkansas.

The company sponsored many local sports clubs and events, including Newcastle United Football Club, Newcastle Falcons ( rugby union ), Newcastle Eagles ( basketball ), Durham and Middlesex County Cricket clubs, professional golfer Paul Eales and the cycling festival Northern Rock Cyclone.

Former Rock rugby players include, Fergus Slattery, Shane Byrne and Victor Costello.

On November 10, 1928, when the " Fighting Irish " team was losing to Army 6-0 at the end of the half, Rockne entered the locker room and told the team the words he heard on Gipp's deathbed in 1920: " I've got to go, Rock.

Some time, Rock, when the team is up against it, when things are going wrong and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go in there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper.

At the club level, Rock Bridge fields a Boys Varsity Lacrosse team in the spring.

* Timothy M. Wolfe, President of the University of Missouri System who also quarterbacked 1975 Rock Bridge 3A state championship football team

He has shown initiative in taking a businesslike approach to earning money, starting his own " hippie control " and " parental revenge " operations, as well as a Christian Rock and a boy band, a basketball team of crack babies ( parody of the NCAA ) and his own church.

The company sponsors Dell Diamond, the home stadium of the Round Rock Express, the AAA minor league baseball affiliate of the Texas Rangers ( baseball ) | Texas Rangers major league baseball team

In 2007, the Lincoln Cheerleading team won the State Championship in Little Rock, Arkansas.

The " Rock Creek Tigers " played until 1948, when fielding a team became too expensive, and its remaining players began playing for Wisner and the West Point, Nebraska Bombers.

The Rock football team plays their games at Bob DiSpirito Field at N. Kerr Thompson Stadium while the baseball team has their games at Jack Critchfield Park.

Round Rock is home to the Class AAA Pacific Coast League minor league baseball team Round Rock Express, owned by RSR Sports ( Nolan Ryan, Don Sanders, Reid Ryan ) and was founded by Reid Ryan, son of Baseball Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan.

In 1991, a chase team from the University of Oklahoma chased a tornado in Red Rock, Oklahoma and used a portable Doppler weather radar to measure a wind speed of 460 km / h ( 286 mph ; 128 m / s ).

After leaving the airwaves in 1985, the original team reunited to produce two more Grammar Rock segments (" Busy Prepositions " and " The Tale of Mr. Morton ") for television in 1993.

The Ryans moved the team after the 2004 season to Round Rock, Texas, where it is now known as the Round Rock Express.

Famous fans include Stephen Morris of the band New Order, singer Mutley Mclad of the band Macc Lads, actor Marshall Lancaster, Amateur Football Alliance Director Jonathan Leese and ex-wrestling star Dwayne " The Rock " Johnson ( having randomly picked Macclesfield Town as his team out of the hat on Soccer AM ).

: The World Motor Sport Council homologated the new world land speed records set by the team ThrustSSC of Richard Noble, driver Andy Green, on 15 October 1997 at Black Rock Desert, Nevada ( USA ).

Meanwhile the Rock Island Independents became only the second team with two 100 yard rushers in their 60-0 win over Evansville.

Dr. Young presided over a new team known as the " Hammond All-Stars ," played against many of the teams that would become the backbone of the American Professional Football Association that year ( including the Racine Cardinals, Detroit Heralds, Rock Island Independents, Minneapolis Marines, Cleveland Tigers, Canton Bulldogs, and Toledo Maroons ), and went to the meeting in Canton, Ohio at which the APFA was formed in 1920.

Kid Rock released several studio albums that mostly went unnoticed before his 1998 record Devil Without a Cause, released with Atlantic Records, sold 11 million albums behind the hits, " Bawitdaba ", " Cowboy ", and " Only God Knows Why ".

Lava / Atlantic Records A & R man Andy Karp was interested, after seeing Kid Rock in Cleveland in December 1996 and again in March 1997.

In 1997, Kid Rock added drummer / vocalist Stefanie Eulinberg to his band, joining Kenny Olson, Jason Krause, Jimmie Bones, Uncle Kracker, Misty Love, Shirley Hayden and Joe C .. On August 18, 1998, Atlantic released Devil Without a Cause behind the single " Welcome 2 The Party.

However, The Modern Lovers was given an enthusiastic critical reception, with critic Ira Robbins hailing it as " one of the truly great art rock albums of all time ," and it influenced numerous aspiring punk rock musicians on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Sex Pistols ( who covered " Roadrunner " on The Great Rock ' n ' Roll Swindle ).

Fastnet Rock lies in the Atlantic Ocean 11. 3 km south of mainland Ireland making it the most southerly point of Ireland.

Also significantly, " Rock Around The Clock " was recorded in the very same month that Atlantic Records issued Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ".

Established in 1957, the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament draws large crowds of sporting enthusiasts of all types to Morehead City each year to witness some of the largest Atlantic Blue Marlin catches in North America.

The song was generally well-received, Allmusic describing it as " funkier and more club-happy than The Beatles ' original " and was a commercial success on both sides of the Atlantic, reaching number three in the UK pop charts and number eleven on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart.

* 1957: Rock & Roll ( Atlantic )

In November 1964 Burke released Rock ' n ' Soul ( Atlantic Records 5009 ), an album which contained seven top 100 Billboard hits.

On January 22, 1965 Burke recorded four songs at Atlantic's New York studio, including his " signature single ", and his biggest hit (# 1 R & B, # 22 pop ), " Got to Get You Off My Mind " ( Atlantic 2276 ), which the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame would later call " one of the premier soul hits of the 1960s.

Burke was featured in The Atlantic Records Story, a documentary that debuted on American television on May 12, 1994, and in The History of Rock ' N ' Roll, Vol.

As one of the early artists at Atlantic Records, on April 17, 2007 Burke honored Ahmet Ertegün, the co-founder of Atlantic Records and also of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, who had died on December 14, 2006.

* Rock ' n ' Soul – 1964 ( Atlantic 8096 )

The band has also appeared on many compilations including Fields And Streams ( 2002, Kill Rock Stars ) with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and many soundtracks including School of Rock Soundtrack ( 2003, Atlantic Records ), Fun with Dick & Jane Soundtrack ( 2005, Varese Saranbande ), ( 2006 ) Grandma's Boy ) and soundtracks of the video games NHL 08, Burnout 3: Takedown and ATV Offroad Fury 3.

Their avant-garde debut EP, Rubbing the Impossible to Burst, was released in 1992, and in the same year they began working closely with Bikini Kill as riot grrrl's popularity peaked on both sides of the Atlantic, culminating in a split album on Catcall Records ( Huggy Bear ) and Kill Rock Stars ( Bikini Kill ) called Our Troubled Youth / Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah, the names of the Huggy Bear and Bikini Kill sides, respectively.

* Black Rock, South Atlantic

Hard Rock is also scheduled to open a hotel & casino on the Boardwalk of Atlantic City by 2015.

The player and Rock must navigate through the Atlantic Ocean from Europe to North America to locate Columbus.

These birds have been nesting along the Atlantic coast of northeastern North America since about 1970 and have since expanded their breeding range southward into the Gulf of Maine with a pair having been confirmed nesting at Matinicus Rock ( http :// www. fws. gov / FWSJournal / regmap. cfm? arskey = 26734 & callingKey = state & callingValue = ME ).

L ' Enfant's " Plan of the city intended for the permanent seat of the government of the United States ..." encompassed an area bounded by the Potomac River, the Eastern Branch, the base of the escarpment of the Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line, and Rock Creek.