Oakland City University sports teams are the Mighty Oaks.

The Oakland City Elementary sports teams are the Acorns ( relating to the Oaks above ).

Both Southfield and Southfield-Lathrup compete in the Oakland Activities Association ( White Division ) for high school sports as well as have membership in the MHSAA.

In 1937, she began writing a thrice-weekly sports column for the Oakland Tribune.

In 1969, Andy Mousalimas, an original creator of GOPPPL and participant in the inaugural draft, brought the game to his sports bar, the King's X in Oakland, CA, where he added another couple leagues.

Business and political leaders in Oakland had long been in competition with its neighbor, San Francisco, as well as other cities in the West, and were also trying for Oakland and its suburbs ( the greater East Bay ) to be seen nationally as a viable metropolitan area with its own identity and reputation, distinct and separate from that of San Francisco ; professional sports was seen as a primary way for the East Bay to gain such recognition.

The Port of Oakland played a key role in the East Oakland site selection ; The Port swapped at the head of San Leandro Bay to the East Bay Regional Park District, in exchange for of park land across the freeway, which the Port in turn donated to the City of Oakland as the site for the Coliseum sports complex .< ref >

An overhead view of the Oakland sports complex ; Oracle Arena is to left and the O. co Coliseum is to the right

The facility was named for Francis J. Youell ( 1883-1967 ), an Oakland undertaker owner of the Chapel of the Oaks, Oakland City Councilman, and sports booster.

The Apollo was a United States-built sports car / personal automobile manufactured from 1962 to 1964 in Oakland, California.

ULS ' sports teams compete with regional private and public high schools, such as Detroit Country Day School, Greenhills School, Oakland Christian, and Cranbrook Kingswood.

Major music ( and sports ) venues include the Oakland Oracle Arena, home arena of the Golden State Warriors ; adjacent McAfee Coliseum, home of the Oakland A's and the Oakland Raiders ; the Oakland Paramount Theater, venue for the Oakland East Bay Symphony ; the Fox Oakland Theatre, the UC Berkeley Greek Theater, the nonprofit The Freight and Salvage, and the Sleep Train Pavilion, formerly known as the Concord Pavilion.

Though carrying a substantial workload as the announcer for two professional sports teams, King was persuaded by the new owners of the Oakland Athletics to become their lead announcer in.

On January 9, 1977, 81. 9 million people ( the largest ever to view a sports event at that point ) watched NBC's telecast of Super Bowl XI between the Oakland Raiders and Minnesota Vikings.

After years of covering high schools and general assignment sports in Miami, San Diego and the San Francisco Bay Area, Gomez became a full-time baseball beat writer in 1992, covering the Oakland Athletics for the San Jose Mercury News and Sacramento Bee from 1990 to 1997.

" Athletics and participation in the Greek system are the most popular campus activities ; in all, Dartmouth offers more than 350 organizations, teams, and sports.

Fencing is one of five sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games, the other four being Athletics, Cycling, Swimming, and Gymnastics.

* Victoria College Athletics Association ( VCAA ), which provides students with a chance to participate and compete in intramural sports.

Athletics became codified and standardised via the English AAA and other general sports organisations in the late 19th century, such as the Amateur Athletic Union ( founded in the US in 1888 ) and the Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques ( founded in France in 1889 ).

It is governed by IPC Athletics, and is one of the sports at the Summer Paralympic Games since 1960.

Athletics is one of the sports at the quadrennial Commonwealth Games competition.

Athletics is one of the sports at the biennial summer Universiade competition.

Instead an organization named the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women ( AIAW ) governed women's collegiate sports in the United States.

Those sports were initially governed by the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, but were continued when the NCAA became the governing body in 1982.

* Athletics coach, sports commentator and TV Presenter Ron Pickering.

Wittenberg ended the 2009 fall sports season ranked 16th among more than 430 NCAA Division III schools in the Learfield Sports Directors Cup standings, administered by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics ( NACDA )

The town also has their own organized sports program, the Westport Youth Athletics Association ( WYAA ) which serves sports from as soon as even three years old, all the way up until 8th grade.

Quincy's only college sports program is the " Lions " of Eastern Nazarene College, in the DIII Commonwealth Coast Conference of the National Collegiate Athletics Association ( NCAA ) and the Eastern College Athletic Conference ( ECAC ).

and Newbury C. C .. Newbury also has two strong athletics clubs with Team Kennet and Newbury Athletics Club and there are Newbury District Leagues in many other sports such as badminton, table tennis, squash and darts.

The township has individual organizations that run each youth sports program, including Little League Baseball ( WMLL ), Police Athletic League ( PAL ) Basketball, PAL Soccer, West Milford-Star Athletics Cheerleading, Midget Football Association ( WMMFA ) Football, WMMFA Cheerleading, Amateur Baseball Association ( WMABA ) Baseball, and Girls Softball Association softball ( WMGSA ).

Aberdeen is more populated but the two cities have a long rivalry especially in high school sports ( see Athletics ).

On 27 January 2012, the International Association of Athletics Federations announced that Nestlé will be the main sponsor for the further development of IAAF's Kids ' Athletics Programme, which is one of the biggest grassroots development programmes in the world of sports.

Sports facilities in Colchester include the sports centre, Colchester Leisure World, Colchester Garrison Athletics Stadium ( a co-operative facility used by both the army and civilian population ), and a skatepark.

The American League's Philadelphia Athletics had moved to Kansas City, Missouri after the 1954 season, and Philadelphians weren't about to lose another professional sports franchise.

They compete in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference ( GLIAC ) in all 19 intercollegiate varsity sports and have won the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics ( NACDA ) Directors ' Cup for NCAA Division II every year from 2004 to 2011 after finishing second in 2002 and 2003.

Athletics, swimming, fencing, diving, baseball, boxing, basketball, equestrian, football, artistic gymnastics, rowing, wrestling, shooting, tennis, weightlifting and water polo are the only summer sports that have never been absent from the Pan American Games program.

Since their last Cup win in 1983, they are currently the only team of the four major North American sports leagues ( NHL, NFL, NBA, & MLB ) to win 4 consecutive championships, and hold the NHL record for most consecutive playoff series ' wins at 19 ( 1980 Playoffs-1984 Playoffs ).

MLB constitutes one of the major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada.

MLB has the highest season attendance of any sports league in 2011.

This difference in rules between leagues is unique to MLB ; the other sports leagues of the US and Canada have one set of rules for all teams.

While there have been many sports teams in Newark proper, it has spent much of its history without an MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL team actually located in the city itself.

While two other teams in Tennessee ( Tennessee Titans and Nashville Predators ) in the four major North American sports leagues ( NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL ) play in Nashville, the Grizzlies are the only team currently to play in Memphis.

MLB is the oldest of the major American professional sports, dating back to the 1870s.

Fox's regional sports networks and national programming began to phase in the new standard Fox Sports graphics package ( which originally debuted with Fox's NFL coverage in 2010 ), beginning with the 2011 MLB season, the 2011 college football season, the 2011-12 NHL season and the 2011-12 NBA season.

The Backyard Sports series is the only game brand licensed by all the leading professional US sports leagues ( MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLS ).

When the NBA, MLB, NHL and NFL began selling their jerseys in stores during the 1980s, game used jerseys also became a hot item among sports memorabilia collectors.

The manufacturer claims these cranks have been used as a training tool by several World and Olympic Champions in both cycling and triathlon and several professional sports teams including MLB and NFL teams, and other uses.

Because none of the major North American professional leagues have games scheduled for that day the National Basketball Association, National Football League, and National Hockey League are not in-season, and MLB does not have games that day major sports figures are available to attend.

* In the field of sports, Rider graduates include: Jack Armstrong, 1990 Major League Baseball ( MLB ) All-Star and World Champion ; Al Downing, 1967 MLB All-Star and Strikout Champion, and 1971 MLB Comeback Player of the Year ; Jeff Kunkel, professional baseball player ; Caroline Lind, MBA, Olympic Gold Medal rower at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ; Digger Phelps, ESPN college basketball analyst and former Notre Dame Fighting Irish basketball coach ; Bobby Smith, National Soccer Hall of Fame member ; and Jason Thompson, basketball player in the NBA.

Notable professional sports players from Delta are Jeff Francis ( MLB ), Justin Morneau ( MLB ), Brent Seabrook ( NHL ), Troy Brouwer ( NHL ) and Mitch Berger ( NFL ).

It is one of the most commonly played fantasy sports games, and is arguably one of the most difficult and time-intensive due to the 162-game season of the MLB and the inconsistency of players.

SN currently covers seven main sports — Major League Baseball ( MLB ), the National Basketball Association ( NBA ), the National Football League ( NFL ), the National Hockey League ( NHL ), NASCAR, and NCAA men's basketball and football — with occasional coverage of other sports.

* In the field of sports, Niagara alumni include: Hubie Brown, two-time NBA Coach of the Year and Basketball Hall of Fame member ; Larry Costello, six-time NBA All-Star and NBA coach ; Frank Layden, NBA Coach of the Year and Executive of the Year ; Sal Maglie, two-time MLB National League All-Star ; Joe McCarthy, seven-time MLB World Series Champion and National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum member ; and Calvin Murphy, three-time All-American, NBA All-Star and Basketball Hall of Fame member

In addition to his work with the Phillies and NFL Films, Kalas called various sports over the years for the Mutual Broadcasting System, CBS Radio, and Westwood One Radio ( including the NFL, MLB, college basketball, and Notre Dame football ).

Since 2002, the ceremony has been conducted on the Wednesday in July following the Major League Baseball ( MLB ) All-Star Game ; as none of the major North American professional leagues have games scheduled for that day — the National Basketball Association, National Football League, and National Hockey League are not in-season, and MLB does not contest games on the day following its all-star game — major sports figures are available to attend.