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The Brecks-Colonels franchise is the last team from the four currently extant major professional sports leagues of North America to play its home games in Kentucky, although the Kentucky Colonels played in the American Basketball Association from 1967 until the ABA-NBA merger brought the ABA into the National Basketball Association after the 1975-76 season.
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“ The new Atlanta Falcons logo is fresh, strong and dynamic, and yet appreciates the tradition and history of this franchise ,” said Falcons owner and CEO Arthur Blank.
In the Nintendo / GameFreak video game franchise " Pokémon ", there are three creatures in the same evolutionary chain named Abra, Kadabra, and Alakazam ( the third of which is also an alleged magic word used by stage magicians ).
The facility is also home to The Raider Image, the merchandise arm of the franchise, which the public can visit.
Most contracts are awarded by the Department for Transport ( DfT ), with the exception of Merseyrail, where the franchise is awarded by Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive, and ScotRail, where the DfT awards on the advice of the Scottish Government.
Initially, there were 25 franchises, but the number of different operating companies is smaller as some firms, including First Group, National Express Group and Stagecoach Group, run more than one franchise.
Often when a fan does not agree with one of the events in a story ( such as the death of a favorite character ) they will choose to ignore the event in question so that their enjoyment of the franchise is not diminished.
Brown recently purchased shares of the team owned by the estate of co-founder Austin Knowlton and is now the majority owner of the Bengals franchise.
In 1975, the team posted an 11 – 3 record, giving them what is to this day the highest winning percentage (. 786 ) in franchise history.
However, in 1991, as part of Major League Baseball's two-team expansion ( they also added the former Florida ( now Miami ) Marlins ), an ownership group representing Denver led by John Antonucci and Michael I. Monus were granted a franchise ; they took the name “ Rockies ” due to Denver's proximity to the Rocky Mountains, which is reflected in their logo.
In the Halo franchise, the weak, low-ranking Grunts of the Covenant originate on a frozen exoplanet named Balaho, where methane is a primary constituent of the atmosphere, prevents the planet becoming even more frigid than it already is due to its distance from its parent star, and thus, Grunts have evolved to utilize the gas for respiration.
Most cable systems are required by their franchise agreement to offer some channels, including local broadcast stations, educational, and community access channels ( PEG ), for a low rate ; this is called " Basic Cable ".
* 1970 – The first ever general election on the basis of direct adult franchise is held in Pakistan for 313 National Assembly seats.
is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio which later became an anime series and an Asian franchise.
The game is neither a sequel to Doom 3 nor a new beginning of the franchise and it will use the company's new id Tech 5 engine.
, short for, is a Japanese media franchise encompassing digital toys, anime, manga, video games and videos.
In the English iterations of the franchise there is another type of Digi-Egg that can be used to digivolve, or transform, Digimon.
* Dan Uggla ( 2006 – 2010 ) — Acquired in the Rule V Draft, Dan Uggla is the franchise leader in home runs with 154 and is the only second baseman in MLB history with four consecutive 30 home run seasons.
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( Originally, a team was supposed to be started in Buffalo, but league ownership at the last minute removed that city from their plans in favor of the expansion Boston franchise.
They won their last 14 of 15 games, including 11 in a row, the most of any team in the 2007 season and an all-time franchise record.
These uniforms were also the first in franchise history to have the players ' last names on the back.
Although its opponents would include winners of 9 of the last 15 NFL MVP awards, the team advanced to the 2010 NFC Championship game where they defeated the Minnesota Vikings, led by Brett Favre, 31 – 28 in overtime ( at 9: 19 CST ), and then went on to win their first Super Bowl appearance in franchise history.
The next season, they won only 12 games ( including only one win in their last 44 games )— still the worst in franchise history.
On April 10, 2011, the Thrashers played their last game in franchise history against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The 2002 – 03 team finished with the third-worst record in franchise history ( 17 – 65 ), which earned them a tie for last place in the league and a 22. 5 percent chance at winning the NBA Draft Lottery and the first overall selection.
The Spurs ended the season with a 20 – 62 record, the worst in franchise history — and to date, the last time they have missed the playoffs.
Jere Lehtinen is the last Minnesota North Star still with the franchise, although he never wore a Minnesota North Stars jersey ; he was drafted by the club while it was still in Minnesota.
On 4 February 2012, National Express East Anglia was handed over to Abellio Greater Anglia Limited, operated by ( NV Nederlandse Spoorwegen ) until September 2014, leaving C2C as the last National Express operated franchise left.
An oft-delayed CGI film based on the franchise, Gatchaman, last slated for a 2011 release from Warner Bros., was officially cancelled in June 2011.
Although IGN remarked that the game was graphically a " huge improvement since we last saw the franchise ", they proceeded to comment that " It's a mixed bag of good and bad ".
The Battalion would win the last 14 games of the regular season to establish a franchise record for straight wins ( a record that eventually fell during the 2008 – 09 season ) to finish the season with a record of 44-21-1-2 and beating the Barrie Colts to win the Central Division Championship by only 1 single point.
Performance figures for National Express ’ s last quarter as franchise holder, July to September 2004, were:
Instead TWW quit its franchise early, selling the last five months to Harlech for £ 500, 000 even though the new company was not yet ready to start broadcasting at the time.
Making the AHL's situation even bleaker as the 1977 – 78 season approached was news that the Providence Reds – the last surviving uninterrupted franchise from 1936 – 37 – had decided to cease operations.
In 2009 the franchise won their last championship, making it 14 and creating a tie with The San German Athletics for most titles in the BSN LEAGUE, and as a consequence their prestige and quality was pushing the team once again.
The influence of the country representatives was thus re-established in the Second Chamber, but now the demands for the extension of the franchise came more and more to the front, and the premier, Gustaf Boström, at last felt bound to do something to meet these demands.
TSW launched a legal challenge to the franchise award, and after initially being refused permission to do so in the High Court, a legal action began which would last almost three months and went all the way to the House of Lords.
Only Buffalo would, as of yet, not receive a Major League Baseball franchise, which city last hosted Major League Baseball in 1915 with the Federal League's Buffalo Blues.
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