* 2010 – Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.

In 2010, the IFF adopted a FIFA-like continental qualification system, where teams must qualify to play at the world championships.

Although the white jerseys of the Minnesota Vikings at the time also had a similar striping pattern and continued as such ( as well as the throwbacks the New England Patriots wore in the Thanksgiving game against the Detroit Lions in 2002, though the Patriots later wore the same throwbacks in 2009 with truncated stripes and in 2010 became their official alternate uniform ), the Colts and most college teams with this striping pattern did not make this adjustment.

The following national teams played in 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games.

Both men and women will begin lacrosse teams in 2010.

Until the selection of Rickey Jackson in 2010, there had been no players in the Hall of Fame whose time with the Saints contributed to their selection ; the others were chosen for their work with previous teams.

For the 2007 and 2010 seasons, the Eagles used throwback uniforms in place of the black alternates for their anniversary to commemorate past teams.

The 2010 campaign started off slowly again, this time 2 – 5 ( including losses to some of the worst teams in football at the time – KC, OAK, SEA & STL ).

With the special teams failure of the 2010 season campaign, the Chargers hoped to rebound with a strong performance to start the season, and a way to overcome slow starts.

In the 2010 season, the Seahawks became the first team in NFL history to earn a spot in the playoffs with a losing record ( 7 – 9,. 438 ); that year, 7 teams in the NFL with a record of 7 – 9 or better did not make the playoffs, including two 10 – 6 teams.

It was the first of only two times that two teams have played each other in the Super Bowl after playing on the final weekend of the regular season ( the New York Giants and New England Patriots played in the final week of the 2007 regular season and met again in Super Bowl XLII ). Under NFL scheduling rules put in place by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell prior to the 2010 season, the Super Bowl participants will not be able to play each other on the final weekend of the regular season, since all games on the final weekend now match division opponents.

The Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions qualified for the playoffs despite 4-5 records, the only sub -. 500 teams to reach the NFL playoffs until the 7-9 Seattle Seahawks reached the playoffs following the 2010 season.

In the seven matches played between these two teams between Round 7, 2007 and Round 1, 2010 inclusive, Ross Lyon had the wood over Paul Roos 5 – 2.

In the summer of 2010, Wabash reconstructed Mud Hollow and Byron P. Hollett Stadium to provide the football, soccer, baseball and intramural teams with better athletic facilities.

Kidderminster Hockey club was founded in 1892 and in 2010 there are five men's hockey teams, a ladies team and a junior team.

In most other series, teams tend to update their vehicles every few years or so ( examples include the 2005 vs. 2010 Mustangs in the Continental Challenge and the two different generations of Mazda RX-8 in the Rolex Series ).

** Underage Gaelic football teams have also had considerable successes on the field at both provincial and national level-winning the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship seven times ( the most recent, also in 2010 ) and the All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship four times.

The football team plays at Hornet Stadium, the basketball teams play at the Dunn-Oliver Acadome, and the baseball team plays at the ASU Baseball Complex, which recently opened on March 26, 2010.

The 2010 season saw a tight race in the East, with three teams being tied for first place on the final day of the regular season.

In the 2010 Finals, two new teams represented each conference: the Seattle Storm and the Atlanta Dream.

Fans responded to the new stars in the league ; by the end of the 2011 regular season, nine of the twelve teams in the league had increased attendance over their 2010 averages.

Later that year both the AFL and af2 were dissolved and reorganized as a new corporation comprising teams from both leagues, and the AFL returned in 2010.

George Kenneth " Ken " Griffey, Jr. ( born November 21, 1969 ), nicknamed " Junior " and " The Kid ", is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played 22 years in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for three teams ( 1989 – 2010 ).

Atlanta received defenseman Johnny Oduya, rookie forward Niclas Bergfors, junior prospect Patrice Cormier and a first round selection in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft in exchange for Kovalchuk and defenseman Anssi Salmela ; the teams also traded second round selections in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft.

Cricket Australia proposed that the 2010 – 11 series consist of six Tests, with the additional game to be played at Bellerive Oval in Hobart.

The National Hockey League tends to have close to a full slate of games ( 11 were played in 2010 ), following the league-wide days off given for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

The game is organised by the Rotary club of Bodmin and was last played in 2010.

Elwes filmed a film adaptation of Camilla Dickinson in late 2010 where he played Rafferty Dickinson.

The band played three performances in October 2010.

( Beginning with the January 2010 game, the Cotton Bowl Classic has been played at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.

It's estimated by the Fantasy Sports Trade Association that 32 million people age 12 and above in the U. S. and Canada played fantasy sports in 2010.

The only seasons in recent times when this pattern was not followed were 1999 – 2000, when most rounds were played a few weeks earlier than normal as an experiment, and 2010 – 2011 when the FA Cup Final was played before the Premier League season had finished, in order to allow the stadium to be ready for the UEFA Champions League final.

Mayhew also often appears as a character in television and radio histories of Victorian London, played by Timothy West in the documentary London ( 2004 ) and by David Haig in the Afternoon Play A Chaos of Wealth and Want ( 2010 ).

In March 2010, Polgár played a four-game match against GM Gregory Kaidanov at Hilton Head, South Carolina.

In April 2010, Polgár played an eight-game rapid chess match against Czech GM David Navara which was part of the ČEZ Chess Trophy 2010 festival of the Prague Chess Society.

In September and October 2010, Polgár played 3rd board for the Hungarian Men's team in the 39th Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.

Again in 2010, the Wizards played a friendly here against English club Manchester United, winning 2 – 1.

The Kabaddi World Cup was first played in 2004 and then in 2007 and 2010.

In February 2010, she played Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, which also featured Greta Scacchi and Lambert Wilson.

In late 2010 Lemmy and Motorhead appeared in a commercial for Kronenbourg beer in which he played harmonica and sang along to a slower version of Ace of Spades.

They played their inaugural game at the newly completed Target Field on April 12, 2010.

The first regular season game in Target Field was played against the Boston Red Sox on April 12, 2010, with Mauer driving in two runs and going 3-for-5 to help the Twins defeat the Red Sox, 5 – 2.

Brett Favre played for the Vikings in 2009 and 2010.

The Vikings played the Dallas Cowboys in the divisional round on January 17, 2010, and won the game by a score of 34 – 3, advancing the Vikings to the NFC Championship game, the ninth in franchise history.

In the first week of the 2010 NFL regular season, the Vikings played the defending Super Bowl champions, the New Orleans Saints.

Three years later, the Vikings played the November 7, 2010 home game against the Arizona Cardinals in the all-purple uniform.