This tournament is a single elimination competition of eight teams ( seven for Division III ) that has determined the women's collegiate national champion since 2000-01, when the NCAA began sponsoring the sport.

He began the 2000-01 season with the Flames, where in 23 games, Belak had no points and 79 PIM.

The business of baseball began to prosper along with other entertainments, and performers -- thanks partly to George Herman Ruth's spectacular efforts each season to run his salary higher and higher -- prospered too.

Guest performers and conductors during the coming season will include many renowned artists who began their careers playing with the orchestra, including violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, Ruggiero Ricci and David Abel ; ;

Before the 2007 season began, Vick was suspended indefinitely by the NFL after pleading guilty to charges involving dog fighting in the state of Virginia.

In 1943 plant biologist Arthur Galston began studying the compound triiodobenzoic acid as a plant growth hormone, in an attempt to adapt soybeans to a short growing season.

However, as more people gradually moved from working the land to living in towns ( especially those who could read and write, the only people whose use of language we now know ), the word harvest lost its reference to the time of year and came to refer only to the actual activity of reaping, and autumn, as well as fall, began to replace it as a reference to the season.

Modell's team was named the " Baltimore Ravens " after a fan contest and began play in the 1996 season.

Since the retirement of Cal Ripken Jr. in 2001, the Orioles began a downward spiral, compiling a losing record in every season between 1998 and 2011.

This version of the script logo has been on the front of the away jerseys since 2001 and the home ones since 2004. The Orioles began the 2008 season in a rebuilding mode under President of Baseball Operations Andy MacPhail.

The season began with long-time backup George Ratterman at quarterback, but Babe Parilli took his place when the starter was injured.

The Browns used the device off and on into the regular season, and other teams began to experiment with their own radio helmets.

The rivalry with Atlanta began in the first season of the franchise when both teams were members of the NFC West.

The Rockies trailed the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Arizona Diamondbacks and the San Diego Padres for most of 2007 Major League Baseball season – however – by August, Colorado showed a steady series of wins, while the Division-leading Dodgers began to struggle.

The Colorado Rockies began the 2008 season after few offseason changes from the National League champion squad of 2007.

Colorado began the season on a high note, winning their opener on April 1, in a 2 – 1 comeback victory over the Cardinals.

The pair had unexpected success in their first season finishing just outside the play-offs, and 1992 – 93 began promisingly and Charlton looked good bets for promotion in the new Division One ( the new name of the old Second Division following the formation of the Premier League ).

Overtime for regular season games in the NFL began with the 1974 season.

In his sophomore season, Earnhardt, now with 20-year old Doug Richert as his crew chief, began the season winning the Busch Clash.

Earnhardt began the season by winning his Twin 125-mile qualifier race for the ninth straight year.

Before the 1999 season, fans began discussing Earnhardt's age and speculating that with his son, Dale Jr. getting into racing, Earnhardt might be contemplating retirement.

The Red Wings began the 2009 – 10 NHL season in Stockholm, Sweden, falling in both games to the St. Louis Blues by scores of 4-3 and 5-3, respectively.

As of 2011, Digimon Data Squad ( the fifth series / season ) recently began airing in the UK on Kix ( the shows sole provider ).

In 1970 five players went on strike before the season even began, demanding higher payments.

Once the 1906 season got underway, many programs began experimenting with the forward pass.

Then Little Billy began shouting orders to round up the ponies and fill the water buckets and for the cooks to hurry up with the meal.

When his eyes began to focus, he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork.

Mary Jane took the page from him and began reading it, moving her lips with the words.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

The drummer flogged the gourd with frantic intensity as the dancers began the calinda, a sensual gyration which had long been a favorite of voodoo practitioners and their disciples in the Louisiana slave compounds.

Through the Frankfurt Jewish Kulturbund he began to give sonata recitals in synagogues, with Cellist Emanuel Feuermann.

He began with masks to make the dancer identify himself with the creature he appeared to be.

After the war began, he long refused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union action even in the Border States that stayed with the Union.

A series of conferences with friends and bankers began about this time ; ;

In the final issues of the Englishman, which ended just as the new session of Parliament began, he provided his enemies with still more ammunition.

Having done so, he began to experience all the frustrations of others who attempted to get along with Serenissimus and do a job at the same time.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

Charles Breasted remembers that, before unpacking his bag, he telephoned his bootlegger with a generous order, and almost at once `` the familiar procession of people began milling through our living room at any hour between two P.M. and three A.M. ''.

He began the dialogue by having his wife announce that one does not invade people's homes without warning them that one is coming, and went on from that with the entire catalogue of his social gaucheries.

The process usually began with a tutor boasting about a boy, as Chappell had boasted about Lightfoot, to the higher officers of the college and university.

Woodrow Wilson, with whom he began his years in Washington, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, FDR, with whom he managed a social revolution.

After she had served the detectives coffee and toast ( they politely declined eggs, uncomfortable about their tenancy ), she settled down with a morning newspaper and began reading the stock market quotations.

Stranger, Uncle Randolph began riding home nights with a jug strapped to his saddle, drunkenly singing `` Old Dan Tucker '' at the top of his voice.

Martha picked up the hem of her gown and with eyes closed she slowly began to dance a stately minuet around the ballroom.

David began to shave with great sweeping strokes.

At the end of the room there was a desk heaped with papers, and she began to riffle these, making sighs and and noises of girlish exasperation.

In one sense it can be said that one of the most important Brown & Sharpe products over the years has been the men who began work with the company and subsequently came to places of industrial eminence throughout the nation and even abroad.