Reading won the 2005 – 06 Championship with a league record 106 points, scoring 99 goals and losing only twice.

This second season was less successful and Reading were relegated back to the Championship.

In the 2010 – 11 FA Cup, Reading reached the quarter-final, where they lost 1 – 0 to Manchester City at the City of Manchester Stadium, Reading eventually finished 5th in the Championship to qualify for the division's play-offs.

On Nov 14, 2010 Danny Bonaduce teamed with Jimmy Deo to defeat The Dark Dragons at Regional Championship Wrestling's Megabrawl 5 in Reading, PA.

The World Championship Speed Reading Competition stresses reading comprehension as critical.

He missed just one game of the 2005 – 06 season that saw Reading win promotion to the top flight of English football for the first time in their history, as they topped the Championship with a record 106 points.

Then, on July 22, 2004, after five seasons with D. C. United, Convey signed a three-year contract with Reading, who were then playing in the Championship, on the highest transfer fee paid by Reading up to that date.

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The team hosted the 1998 Double-A All-Star Game, was league runner-up in 1995 and 2003, and won the Eastern League Championship in 2000 with an 82-60 record, defeating the Reading Phillies 3 games to 1 in the championship series.

In the Championship, Sheffield United lead the table with Reading in second place, ahead of newly-promoted Luton Town on goal difference.

In the Championship, Sheffield United hold a six-point advantage over Reading.

In the Championship, Reading have overtaken Sheffield United with a four-point advantage.

Reading still lead the Championship, with Sheffield United, Leeds, Watford, Crystal Palace and Wolves completing the top six.

Reading lead the Championship by ten points and look almost certain to gain promotion to the top flight for the first time in their history, while Sheffield United ( with a game in hand ) are eleven points clear of Leeds and Watford in joint third place.

Reading need only one more win from their last six games to confirm the Championship title, while Sheffield United appear almost certain to join Reading in the top flight.

* 1 April 2006 — Reading win the Football League Championship title after their defeat of Derby County and Sheffield United's being held to a draw means that Reading cannot be overtaken.

Reading's relegation from the Premier League in 2008 meant that all expansion plans were put on hold, but appears that these plans will be revived now that promotion was again achieved in 2012 as long as Reading can avoid relegation back to the Championship.

Pratley came back into the team performing well and getting vital goals against Reading, Crystal Palace a double against Bristol City and the third goal in the Championship play-off semi final second leg against Nottingham Forest which he scored from the halfway-line into an empty goal.

In January 2012 he signed for Reading on an 18-month contract and helped them to promotion from the Football League Championship as Champions.

* Following promotion from the Championship, Reading played in the Premiership and the " top flight " of English football for the first time in their 135-year history and won their first game, coming back from 0 – 2 down to beat Middlesbrough 3 – 2.

Three women have won the British Open Championship: Lily Gower in 1905, Dorothy Steel in 1925, 1933, 1935 and 1936, and Hope Rotherham in 1960.

The Washington Redskins, after wearing white exclusively in the ' 80s and ' 90s, including the 1982 NFC Championship Game ( having gone 3 – 0 in them during the regular season, during CBS ' pregame show, Jimmy " The Greek " Snyder actually invoked the blue jerseys in picking Dallas to win the game ), have since 2002 occasionally reverted to using their burgundy jerseys for second-half home games, but will still wear white against the Cowboys.

England have never won the UEFA European Football Championship – their best performance being a semi final appearance at the 1968 and 1996 Championships.

It is the only team to have competed in the Formula One World Championship continuously since its inception in 1950.

The Czech Republic, Finland, Norway Sweden, and Switzerland remain the only five countries to have ever captured a medal at a World Championship event.

# Masters who have the absolute right to play in the World Championship Candidates Tournament, or any player who replaces an absent contestant and earns at least a 50 percent score.

Additionally, 30 percent of the players must be Grandmasters who have the absolute right to play in the next World Championship Candidates Tournament, or who have played in such a tournament in the previous ten years.

Judo, Freestyle Wrestling, and Greco-Roman Wrestling are Olympic Sports while Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and Sambo have their own World Championship Competitions.

Hellas Verona have won one Italian Championship, in 1984 – 85.

With their only men's National Championship coming in the days before the NCAA Tournament, the Purdue Boilermakers have a strong basketball history:

The Boilermaker women have one National Championship ( 1999 ), one national runner-up finish ( 2001 to Notre Dame ), seven Big Ten Championships, and have won six of the thirteen women's Big Ten Tournaments.

In December 1991, Polgár qualified as a Grandmaster by winning the Hungarian National Championship, at the time the youngest ever at 15 years, 5 months to have achieved the title.

This was the origin of the first Ultimate Fighting Championship tournament ( later renamed UFC 1: The Beginning ) in the U. S. inspired by the Brazilian Vale tudo tradition and along with other minimal rule competitions, most notably those from Japan such as Shooto and Pancrase, have evolved into the combat sport of Mixed Martial Arts ( MMA ).

He is one of the few 500 cc or MotoGP World Champions to have won a Superbike World Championship race.

The Saints and the Vikings have played each other three times in the postseason, with the most recent being the 2009 NFC Championship Game.

Although the Vikings have dominated the overall series, the Saints have won the last three including the 2009 NFC Championship Game.

Since 1968, the Jets have appeared in the playoffs thirteen times, and in the AFC Championship Game four times, most recently losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2010.

Though regular season meetings have been infrequent since then, the teams have met two more times in the playoffs, including in 2009 when the Colts and Jets met in the AFC Championship Game.

On January 11, 2009 the team defeated the defending Super Bowl Champions and the 2008 NFC East champion New York Giants 23 – 11 en route to their 5th NFC Championship Game in 8 years and 5th in the 10 years the Eagles have been coached by Andy Reid.

In the 34 years since then, the Chargers have made ten trips to the playoffs and four appearances in the AFC Championship game.

Both the men's and women's rugby clubs have enjoyed success, with the men's rugby club earning a New York State Championship in 1999, and both teams having won numerous tournament titles.