The Bulls ' primary rivals have been the Detroit Pistons ever since the Jordan-led Bulls met the " Bad Boy " Pistons in the 1988 Eastern Conference semifinals.

The Bowdoin College Polar Bears ( the college mascot ) competes in the NCAA Division III New England Small College Athletic Conference ( NESCAC ), which also includes Amherst, Conn College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan, Williams, and Maine rivals Bates and Colby in the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium ( CBB ).

Macclesfield Town's traditional rivals are Altrincham, a rivalry dating back to when both clubs were in the Cheshire League, and later the Northern Premier League and Football Conference.

In the Eastern Conference Finals, the Shock would face the Indiana Fever, with whom the Shock were bitter rivals.

County finished the season with a Conference South record 103 points, 28 ahead of nearest rivals Dover Athletic.

In the Autumn of 2011, Barry Town enjoyed their most successful Welsh Cup campaign in several seasons ; defeating rivals Merthyr Town at Penydarren Park and winning away at Haverfordwest County in extra-time, before the Dragons were narrowly beaten 3 – 2 at Conference National outfit Newport County.

In the recent Football League era since promotion from the Conference, the club's rivals have included Kidderminster Harriers, Cheltenham Town and Shrewsbury Town ; the latter being considered the club's biggest rivals at present.

Williams left the club to take a senior position with Conference rivals Kingstonian in May 2001.

Marshall's biggest rivalries out of conference are with Ohio University, Miami University and West Virginia University, while East Carolina University and University of Central Florida have been the biggest rivals in Conference USA so far.

When Jackson became the head coach of the Chicago Bulls before the start of the 1989-1990 NBA season, he and Winter originally installed the triangle offense in an attempt to subvert the Jordan Rules strategy employed by their Eastern Conference rivals, the Detroit Pistons.

In the post-season, Vancouver defeated their rivals, the Chicago Blackhawks in seven games, followed by winning a six game series against the Nashville Predators to make the Western Conference final.

Kitsap's Western Conference rivals Fresno Fuego had the best regular-season record, posting an unbeaten 13-0-3 record.

UTSA's main rival in most sports is now the Bobcats of Texas State University-San Marcos ; the two schools, separated by about 50 miles ( 80 km ), have been conference rivals since 1991, first in the Southland Conference and then in the Western Athletic Conference ( WAC ) for the 2012 – 13 school year only.

Founded in 1963, the University of Washington Husky Rugby Club plays college rugby in Division 1 in the Northwest Collegiate Rugby Conference against local rivals such as Washington State and Oregon.

Having made three appearances for Halifax, Clarke joined Conference rivals Leigh RMI on a one-month loan on 18 February 2005.

Founded in 1969, Syracuse University Rugby Football Club plays in Division 1 in the Empire Conference against local rivals such as Rutgers.

During the 2006 – 2007 season, Alford led the Hawkeyes to an 8 – 6 non-conference record ( losing to in-state rivals Drake and Northern Iowa ) and an 9 – 7 record in the Big Ten Conference ( 17-14 overall ).

The college joined the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) in 1973 and became a member of the South Atlantic Conference ( SAC ) with in-state rivals Valdosta State, Columbus College and Augusta College.

The Flyers arrived into the Final having beaten their perennial rivals, the New York Rangers in a memorable five-game Eastern Conference Final series.

Before 2012, the last meeting of the two schools as conference rivals was in 1995, when both schools were members of the Big West Conference.

In his first and only season in Philadelphia, Smith captained a rebuilt Flyers squad to an Eastern Conference showdown against their inter-state rivals from Pittsburgh.

Historically, the University of Texas at Austin was one of Houston's principal rivals, especially after Houston joined the now-defunct Southwest Conference.

When the Yalta Conference opened, the American policy of postponing all discussion of Russia's western boundaries until the peace conference had broken down.

But he rejects, perhaps a little too sweepingly, the theory that disloyal and pro-Communist influences may have contributed to the policy of appeasing Stalin which persisted until after the end of the war and reached its high point at the Yalta Conference in February, 1945.

Its current boundaries were deterimined during the colonial period by the Conference of Berlin and the French, who ruled Guinea until 1958.

At the Potsdam Conference, Germany was divided into four military occupation zones by the Allies and did not regain independence until 1949.

It was not until the 1930 Lambeth Conference that the Anglican Communion allowed for contraception in limited circumstances.

Upper and Lower Canada were both part of the New York Episcopal Methodist Conference until 1810 when they were transferred to the newly formed Genesee Conference.

The island has a few other names: " Garden of the Gulf " referring to the pastoral scenery and lush agricultural lands throughout the province ; and " Birthplace of Confederation ", referring to the Charlottetown Conference in 1864, although PEI did not join the confederation until 1873, when it became the seventh Canadian province.

The PLO was considered by the United States and Israel to be a terrorist organization until the Madrid Conference in 1991.

It was not until after the 1955 United Nations International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in Geneva that programs were declassified and international scientific collaboration could take place.

UIU was a Division III member of the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference until 2003.

Research in GAs remained largely theoretical until the mid-1980s, when The First International Conference on Genetic Algorithms was held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Despite this, Bonanno was all but unknown to the general public until the disastrous Apalachin Conference of 1957.

He chaired the United States Delegation at the 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and Development, and was the lead U. S. negotiator for the Kyoto Climate Conference until he resigned from the Administration in late 1997 to accept Ted Turner ’ s invitation to be President of the newly created United Nations Foundation.

The Organisation of the Islamic Conference left the Afghan seat vacant until the question of legitimacy could be resolved through negotiations among the warring factions.

As a result of peace accords worked out at the Geneva Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Vietnam was divided into North Vietnam and South Vietnam at the 17th Parallel as a temporary measure until unifying elections could take place in 1956.

The Holy See later confirmed him and thereafter Kather represented Ermland diocese in the Fulda Conference of Bishops until his death.

They joined the Midwest Division of the Western Conference, causing a divisional realignment with the Midwest and Central Divisions, and would stay there until the league went to six divisions for the 2004 – 05 season and the team moved to the Southwest Division.

From the conference's formation until the 2010 – 11 season, the Big 12 was split into two divisions for most major sports: the Texas schools plus Oklahoma and Oklahoma State made up the South Division, and the remaining six former Big Eight Conference teams ( Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, and Nebraska ) constituted the North Division.

The conference did not sponsor football until 2001, when the league added former Big West Conference members New Mexico State and North Texas and then-independent Middle Tennessee State as full members and added independent Louisiana – Monroe and Big West member Idaho as " football only " members.

Unlike Tech, however, Tulane remained in the Metro Conference until it merged with the Great Midwest Conference in 1995 to form Conference USA.

* Missouri Valley Conference ( MVC ): A long-established conference, in existence since 1907, that sponsored football until 1985.