Beginning in 1906, Pennsylvania conservationist Major Israel McCreight of Du Bois, Pennsylvania argued that President Theodore Roosevelt ’ s conservation speeches were limited to businessmen in the lumber industry and recommended a campaign of youth education and a national policy on conservation education.

Major influences on food production include international organizations ( e. g. the World Trade Organization and Common Agricultural Policy ), national government policy ( or law ), and war.

Major roads are denoted national routes and numbered, with a prefix " N " ( sometimes " RN "):

Major national and international music events are usually held at the Derwent Entertainment Centre, or the Casino.

In June 1990, Major suggested that the proposed Single European Currency should be a " hard ecu ", competing for use against existing national currencies ; this idea was not in the end adopted.

In 2010, Major became a key loyalist to the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, and said that he hoped for a " liberal conservative " alliance beyond 2015, and has criticised Ed Miliband and the Labour Party, for " party games " rather than helping in the national interest.

This uses a national IT system developed for major crime enquiries by all UK forces, called Home Office Large Major Enquiry System, more commonly referred to by its acronym, HOLMES ( which recognises the great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes ).

Major League Baseball is another company exempt from the Clayton Antitrust Act due to the national heritage associated with it.

The Union victory in a relatively bloodless battle propelled the young Major General George B. McClellan into the national spotlight, and he would soon be given command of all Union armies.

Major roads include European routes E70 to Bucharest and E87 to Istanbul and Constanta, Romania ; national motorways A-2 ( Hemus motorway ) to Sofia and A-5 ( Cherno More motorway ) to Burgas.

In 1998 he was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour, a UK national honour bestowed for outstanding achievement in the arts, literature, music, science, politics, industry or religion ( fellow recipients included in 2011 Douglas Hurd, former British Foreign Secretary, Norman Tebbit, former Secretary of State of Employment under Margaret Thatcher, and former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major ).

The town is named after William Heath, Major General of Massachusetts and Brigadier General in the national army during the American Revolution.

The Union victory in a relatively bloodless battle propelled the young Major General George B. McClellan into the national spotlight, and he was soon be given command of all Union armies.

In 1998, the franchise gained national exposure when a fictionalized version of the team was the focus of the film Major League: Back to the Minors, starring Scott Bakula.

Major broadcasting channels KTK and NTK are based in Almaty, as are several national newspapers.

Major figures in the genre include Professor Longhair and Guitar Slim, who both produced major regional, national R & B chart and even mainstream hits.

* Major private, government or dedicated telecommunications networks, such as those used for internal communication and monitoring by major infrastructure companies, by governments, by the military or by emergency services, as well as national research and education networks

Early the next year, the undefeated Mountaineer football team, led by Major Harris, made it to the national championship game

This embarrassment, which included a total collapse of team chemistry and leadership, led to the firing of manager Steve Sampson and the hiring of Bruce Arena, who had won the first two MLS Cups in Major League Soccer history, and who went on to become the most successful United States men's national team manager in history.

For many years, it was a national broadcaster for Major League Baseball, including the All-Star Game and World Series, and for Notre Dame football.

Beregovoy was promoted to Major General and named director of the national Center for Cosmonaut Training at Star City.

Major figures in the genre include Professor Longhair and Guitar Slim, who both produced major regional, R & B and national hits.

Major League Soccer determined in 2007 that every game must be televised, either through a regional ( or local ) TV station, or a national channel.

The tournament is the oldest ongoing national soccer competition in the U. S. and is currently open to all United States Soccer Federation affiliated teams, from amateur adult club teams to the professional clubs of Major League Soccer.

* Brian Bliss-former player for the USA men's national soccer team, former coach of the Major League Soccer Kansas City Wizards, currently technical director Columbus Crew

Major Dutch-language weekly magazines in 2008 are Kerk en Leven ( Drukkerij en Uitgeverij Halewijn ) ( 409, 817 ), Dag Allemaal ( 402, 097 ), HUMO ( 227, 614 ), Libelle ( magazine ) ( Sanoma Belgium ) ( 216, 506 ), TV-Blad ( 158, 283 ), Story ( Belgian magazine ) ( Sanoma Belgium ) ( 159, 833 ), Plus Magazine ( Belgium ) ( 134, 242 ), TV-Familie / Blik ( 129, 328 ), Flair ( magazine ) ( Sanoma Belgium ) ( 126, 831 ), Knack ( magazine ) ( Roularta Media Group ) ( 126, 646 ), Trends ( magazine ) ( Roularta Media Group ),'t Pallieterke, ....

Major French-language weekly magazines in 2008 are Trends / Tendance ( Roularta Media Group ), Le Vif / L ' Express ( Roularta Media Group ), Télé Moustique ( Sanoma Belgium ), Femmes d ' Aujourd ' hui ( Sanoma Belgium ), ....

The title was revived as a thrice weekly publication by Major Lawrence E. Knox, with the first edition being published on 29 March 1859.

For the 2000 and 2001 seasons, Fox Family was home to a weekly Thursday night Major League Baseball game ( a game that had previously aired nationwide on Fox Sports Net from 1997 – 1999 ), as well as select games in the Division Series round of playoffs.

In 2008, Hislop began a weekly blog covering Major League Soccer for the British newspaper The Guardian's website.

In addition, the original WHDH-TV ( channel 5 ) was the flagship station of the Red Sox TV network from 1958 through 1971, while WHDH radio produced an early weekly sports roundtable show called The Voice of Sports, featuring sportswriters from the co-owned Herald-Traveler, various figures from Major League Baseball, and longtime WHDH-TV / WCVB-TV sports director Don Gillis.

HDNet also aired sporting events, including coverage of the National Hockey League ( 2001-2008 ) and Major League Soccer ; select motor sports events, including highlights from the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and races from regional circuits ; mixed martial arts, through Cuban's HDNet Fights promotion ; the weekly series Inside MMA, which featured highlights and coverage from various MMA promotions ; and Indiana University's Little 500 Bicycle Race.

The network airs a regular schedule of daily and weekly programming as well as live coverage of sports events including Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, Bowl Championship Series, and Championship Week games.

* Batt ' r Up !, added in 2006, is a weekly baseball podcast hosted by Matt Loughlin and long-time baseball analyst Fran Healy, with guests from around Major League Baseball, and fantasy advice from The Knuckler.

USA Today Sports Weekly is a weekly magazine that covers Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball, NCAA baseball and the National Football League.

Hryb is most known for his popular weekly podcast " Major Nelson Radio ", available on iTunes, Zune Marketplace, and from his site. He does interviews as well.

* Sunday Night Baseball, a weekly broadcast of Major League Baseball on ESPN

When Commissioner Bowie Kuhn first took office in, the only weekly showcase of Major League Baseball was its Saturday afternoon Game of the Week on NBC.

For the 2000 and 2001 seasons, the Fox Broadcasting Company's then-sister network, Fox Family was home to a weekly Thursday night Major League Baseball game ( a game that had previously aired nationwide on Fox Sports Net from 1997 – 1999 ), as well as select games in the Division Series round of playoffs.

During the 1950s, the National Football League had grown to rival Major League Baseball as one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the United States.

In Major League Baseball history, Ty Cobb had a record 4, 191 hits ( later revised to 4, 189 ) by 1928 in sports | 1928 ; Pete Rose would surpass it 57 years later, and finish with 4, 256 career hits.

Many early players were introduced to the game by these sports journalists, especially during the 1981 Major League Baseball strike ; with little else to write about, many baseball writers wrote columns about Rotisserie league.

On April 15, 1997, Robinson's jersey number, 42, was retired throughout Major League Baseball, the first time any jersey number had been retired throughout one of the four major American sports leagues.

Pepsi has official sponsorship deals with three of the four major North American professional sports leagues: the National Football League, National Hockey League and Major League Baseball.

** Major sports championship since the 49ers won Super Bowl XXIX in 1995.

** Major sports championship since the 49ers win in Super Bowl XXIX.

Short was especially receptive to an offer brought up by Arlington, Texas mayor Tom Vandergriff, who had been trying to obtain a Major League sports team to play in the Metroplex for over a decade.

Gretzky's jersey number 99 is only the second number ever to be retired league-wide by a major North American sports league, the other being Jackie Robinson's number 42, which was retired by Major League Baseball in 1997.

Steroids also spread the sports world throughout the decade, mainly used in Major League Baseball.

With a sports division now established with the arrival of the NFL, Fox acquired over-air broadcast rights to the National Hockey League ( 1994 – 99 ), Major League Baseball ( since 1996 ), and NASCAR auto racing ( since 2001 ).

In fact, Major League Baseball had no official record book at the time, but the stigma remained with Maris for many years, and the concept of a real or figurative asterisk denoting less-than-official records has become widely used in sports and other competitive endeavors.

The Tribune < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > legendary sports editor Arch Ward created the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in 1933 as part of the city's Century of Progress exposition.

Only three other major North American professional sports teams have accomplished this feat, the 1941 – 42 Toronto Maple Leafs, the 2004 Boston Red Sox ( from the Major League Baseball ), and the 2009 – 10 Philadelphia Flyers.

It is also used as a rating system for multiplayer competition in a number of video games, and has been adapted to team sports including association football, American college football, basketball, and Major League Baseball.

The name " Nets " was used because it rhymes with the names of two other professional sports teams that played in the New York metropolitan area at the time: Major League Baseball's New York Mets and the American Football League's New York Jets, and because it relates to basketball in general, as it is part of the basket.

* Woodie Fryman-Former Major League Baseball pitcher ; inductee in the Kentucky sports Hall of Fame

Major attractions include the Ox Roast ( a fair-like festival every Labor Day ), Converse and Garrette Parks, several large churches, and Jefferson Schools sports events.

In 1884, Major William Bulpett, with the backing of winter sports pioneer and Kulm hotel owner Caspar Badrutt, constructed Cresta Run, the first sledding track of its kind in St. Moritz.

Cornwall has been home to a variety of sports teams, the most notable of which was the Cornwall Royals hockey team which played in both the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and the Ontario Hockey League before moving to Newmarket in 1992.

Competitions are another defining characteristic of hardcore gamers, who often compete in organized tournaments, leagues, or ranked play integrated into the game proper, an example of this is Major League Gaming, an Electronic sports organization that often holds events for hardcore First-person shooter games such as Quake.

The bratwurst ( or " brat ") also became popular as a mainstay of sports stadiums after Bill Sperling introduced bratwurst to Major League Baseball in Milwaukee County Stadium in 1953.

Major events covered include Matric Farewell Dances ( equivalent to Senior Prom in the US ), annual sporting events ( such as Inter-schools where a number of schools assemble and compete in various sports as well as with dance routines in competition for spirit awards etc.

Major product areas include household and personal care products, food products, health care and industrial supplies, and sports and leisure time equipment.

* Nike markets a sports shoe named after Major Taylor.