Colangelo's bid received strong support from one of his friends, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf, and media reports say that then-acting Commissioner of Baseball and Milwaukee Brewers founder Bud Selig was also a strong supporter of Colangelo's bid.

Lamar Hunt, who was founder or co-founder of the American Football League, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Chicago Bulls, the United Soccer Association, and Major League Soccer, also founded the team.

Bradford was formed as Bradford Northern in 1907 as a split from Bradford Park Avenue A. F. C., a founder of the Northern Union which switched to playing Association Football, and renamed Bradford Bulls in 1996 at the start of the Super League.

In their early days, from 1912 – 1926, the Durham Bulls, then a Class-D farm team for the Cincinnati Reds, played at Trinity College's Hanes Field ,— named for the founder of the clothing company, a Trinity graduate — now called Williams Field and is still used for field hockey on Duke's east campus.

The Bulls went 24 – 58 in the 1975 – 1976 season and head coach Dick Motta left the team before being replaced by Ed Badger.

However, feuds with team owner Dick Klein forced Kerr to leave the Bulls during the summer of 1968 and sign with the Phoenix Suns, another expansion team in need of its first coach.

Love flourished while playing for Dick Motta's Bulls.

It was used as entrance music by various American sports teams, most notably by the Chicago Bulls during their 1990s NBA dynasty.

In the pontificate of Pius II, their number, which had been fixed at twenty-four, had overgrown to such an extent as to diminish considerably the individual remuneration, and, as a consequence, able and competent men no longer sought the office, and hence the old style of writing and expediting the Bulls was no longer used, to the great injury of justice, the interested parties, and the dignity of the Holy See.

A study of the Highland folklore literature prior to 1933 with specific references to Kelpies, Water Horses and Water Bulls suggested that Loch Ness was the most mentioned loch by a large margin.

" He was known to proudly display a scar he received after being gored at the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain.

The celebration was given a more organised form in 1974, including a Miss Culture Show and a Calypso Competition, as well as drama performances, old fashion Troupes ( including Johnny Walkers, Giant and Spear, Bulls, Red Cross and Blue Ribbon ), arts and crafts exhibitions and recipe competitions.

The 2011 – 12 NBA season, scheduled to begin November 1, 2011 with a matchup between the defending champion Dallas Mavericks and the Chicago Bulls, was postponed due to a labor dispute.

Birmingham Bulls owner John F. Bassett wanted to confront the NHL by signing as many young and promising superstars as possible and saw Gretzky as the most promising young prospect, but it was Racers owner Nelson Skalbania who signed 17-year-old Gretzky to a seven-year personal services contract worth $ 1. 75 million US.

* Jacksonville hosted the Firebirds of the AFA and the Bulls of the USFL before the Jaguars franchise was awarded.

However, before those three could arrive in Miami, there was a game to be played against the 72 – 10 Chicago Bulls.

Rex Chapman, who was traded to the Heat from the Washington Bullets, led the Heat to the biggest upset victory in Miami Heat history, defeating the Bulls 113-104.

However, Mourning was suspended for Game 5 due to elbowing Scottie Pippen in the head ; the Bulls would defeat the Miami Heat in the playoffs for the second consecutive year.

In the 1994 – 95 season, the Magic's sixth season, All-Star forward Horace Grant was acquired as a free agent from the Chicago Bulls.

Because of a seemingly meaningless loss to the lowly Chicago Bulls in the regular season finale ( both the Sixers and the Lakers finished with identical 56 – 26 records, but Los Angeles was awarded a higher seed based on tiebreakers ), the 76ers had to open a series on the road for the first time in the 2001 playoffs.

However, Charlotte was bounced from the playoffs in the first round, falling to the Chicago Bulls in four games.

The 1998 NBA Finals, the Bulls ' most recent championship appearance, was the most watched championship series in NBA history.

After Gilmore was traded to the San Antonio Spurs for center Dave Corzine, the Bulls employed a high-powered offense centered around Theus, and which soon included guards Quintin Dailey and Ennis Whatley.

Michael Jordan was drafted third overall by the Bulls in 1984.

The Bulls finished 40 – 42, which was good enough to qualify them for the playoffs.

Popular power forward Charles Oakley, who had led the league in total rebounds in both ' 87 and ' 88, was traded on the eve of the 1988 draft to the New York Knicks along with a Round 1 draft pick used by the Knicks on Rod Strickland for center Bill Cartwright and a 1st round draft pick which the Bulls used to obtain center Will Perdue.

He was soon among the best in the league again, scoring 55 points against the Knicks in only his fifth game back, and led the Bulls to the fifth seed in the playoffs, where they upset the Charlotte Hornets.

When Jordan returned to the Bulls, he initially wore No. 45 ( which was his number while playing for the Birmingham Barons, a minor-league affiliate of the Chicago White Sox ).

Jordan and Pippen, along with Robert Parish, who was a member of the Bulls at the time, were also honored as members of the 50 greatest players of all-time with the NBA celebrating its 50th season.

Since the departure of the Nets to Brooklyn, the Devils are the only major professional sports team to explicitly brand itself as a New Jersey franchise ; although the New York Giants, New York Jets, and New York Red Bulls are headquartered, train, and play in New Jersey, these teams still brand themselves as being from New York City.

The Hornets made it to back-to-back playoffs for the first time in franchise history, and advanced to the second round, only to again be stopped by the Bulls.

The Bulls won an NBA record-72 games during the 1995 – 96 NBA season and are the only team in NBA history to win 70 games or more in a single season.

Both Pippen and Jordan made the All-NBA First Team, and Jordan, Pippen, and Rodman made the All-Defensive First Team, making the Bulls the only team in history with three players on the All-Defensive First Team.

The Bulls also posted the second-best home record in history ( 39 – 2 ), behind only the 1985 – 86 Celtics 40 – 1 home mark, and the second-best point differential in history, trailing the 1972 Lakers by 3 points over the course of an entire season.

At the end of the season, Boozer and Aşık were the only members on the Bulls ' roster to have played in every game, with Korver and Brewer missing one game apiece.

According to a 2012 Forbes Magazine report, they are the fourth-most valuable basketball franchise in the United States, valued at approximately $ 497 million ; the franchise is surpassed in value only by the New York Knicks, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Chicago Bulls.

The Spurs ' four NBA championships are the fourth most in NBA history, behind only the Boston Celtics ( 17 ), Los Angeles Lakers ( 16 ) and Chicago Bulls ( 6 ).

The Spurs ' perfect record in NBA Finals series is surpassed only by the Chicago Bulls, who have won six without a loss ; the Bulls and Spurs are the only two teams to maintain perfect records through multiple Finals series.

In his entire tenure he has missed only one game due to illness ( December 31, 2005 at the Chicago Bulls ).

Although he played linebacker at Texas Christian University and then the Jets, Clifton played quarterback for the Bridgeport Bulls his junior and senior years leading the Bulls to a 9-1 record in the former ( losing only to Bowie at home ).

Despite having only 1. 7 % probability, the Bulls won the NBA Draft Lottery and selected Chicago native Derrick Rose with the first pick in the 2008 NBA Draft.

From when the Currie Cup became an annual competition until the mid-1980s only one team had seriously challenged the supremacy of the Western Province rugby club — arch rivals Northern Transvaal, also known as the " Blue Bulls ".

He helped the Blazers reach the 1992 NBA Finals, only to succumb to the Chicago Bulls in six games.

The bishops designate to whom Bulls had been refused received them at length, in 1693, only after addressing to Pope Innocent XII a letter in which they disavowed everything that had been decreed in that assembly in regard to the ecclesiastical power and the pontifical authority.

In Peter Biskind's book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, which documents the film's development from start to finish, a story is told of a theater in San Francisco doing historic business with Star Wars, only to draw tiny audiences when Sorcerer replaced it for one week.

But the Bulls would be allowed to participate only if backup defensive end Mike Wilson and starting halfback Willie Evans, who were black, did not play.

He also led the Bulls to the playoffs on various occasions and helped them to win one division title, the only one the franchise had earned before the Michael Jordan era.

College football is much more sparse ; only one team competes at the Division I Bowl Subdivision, the UB Bulls.