However, after the league and the city threatened to file their own legal actions, the Claws gave up the ghost and folded.

The team's name, logo, and color scheme originated with the Memphis Sounds of the American Basketball Association ( ABA ), who used them for one season in 1974 before the team relocated and became the Baltimore Claws.

Following the season, the Sounds were sold to a group in Baltimore, Maryland, where they moved to become the short-lived Baltimore Claws.

The Baltimore Claws was an American basketball team which was supposed to appear in the 1975-76 season in the American Basketball Association.

The team that eventually became the Baltimore Claws had earlier competed in the ABA as the New Orleans Buccaneers from 1967 through 1970, as the Memphis Pros from 1970 through 1972, as the Memphis Tams from 1972 through 1974 and as the Memphis Sounds during the 1974-75 season.

The ABA disbanded the Claws on October 20, 1975, less than a week before the regular season began.

The league issued a statement noting that it had been prepared to enter the 1975-76 season with nine solid teams and had given the Baltimore group extra time to get its affairs in order but that the Claws had failed to do so.

Not long after the Claws folded, the San Diego Sails and then the Utah Stars folded early in the 1975-76 regular season, abruptly shrinking the league from ten teams to seven.

Brown, Jr. dealt Dan Issel to the ABA's new Baltimore Claws franchise ( which folded after a few preseason exhibition games, never taking the floor in the regular season ) for financial reasons.

Brown, Jr. dealt star Dan Issel to the Baltimore Claws prior to the season for $ 500, 000 ; the cash was not forthcoming from the struggling Baltimore franchise and Issel ended up with the Denver Nuggets shortly before the Claws were shut down by the league.

The North Central League folded 18 games into its second season with the Claws finishing at 8-10.

Although he had been hailed as a hero, first for saving the Colonels from moving to Cincinnati and then for bringing a championship to Louisville, Brown came under intense public criticism following the Colonels ' championship season for selling the rights to center Dan Issel to the Baltimore Claws in a cost-saving move.

The Claws of Axos is the third serial of the eighth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 13 March to 3 April 1971.

Issel was then sold by the Colonels ' owners to the short-lived Baltimore Claws franchise and ended up with the Denver Nuggets for the following season.

* This is the first time since season six that the Doctor travels to another planet in the TARDIS, although it is not the first time he has left Earth ; he travelled in a more conventional space ship in The Ambassadors of Death, travelled to an alternate Earth via the TARDIS console in Inferno, and briefly took the TARDIS to Axos in The Claws of Axos.

During the 2010-2011 season, the team set a record for 14 wins in a row before being defeated by the Maine Red Claws 109-106 on January 30th, 2011.

His son, Austin Ainge, was the Head Coach of the Maine Red Claws of the NBA's Development League until recently being named director of player personnel for the Boston Celtics organization and like his father, played basketball at BYU.

Not losing his optimism, Garfield attempts to make the most of it until he runs into a gang of unfriendly alley cats known as the Claws.

The character remained in limbo for a number of years until Grant Morrison used The Steel Claws superhero incarnation ( as well as a number of British heroes from the 1960s ) in his Zenith strip in 2000AD.

The most prolific writers there were collectively referred to as the Five Great Masters of the Northern School ( 北派五大家 ) -- Huanzhu Louzhu ( 還珠樓主 ), who wrote The Swordspeople from Shu Mountains ( 蜀山剑侠传 )); Bai Yu, who wrote Twelve Coin Darts ( 十二钱镖 ); Wang Dulu, who wrote The Crane-Iron Pentalogy ( 鹤铁五部作 ); Zheng Zhengyin ( 郑证因 ), who wrote The King of Eagle Claws ( 鹰爪王 ); and Zhu Zhenmu ( 朱贞木 ), who wrote The Seven-Killing Stele ( 七杀碑 ).

Claws of animals like tigers, lions, and bears were used in making items such as ornaments, pendants, and brooches.

And other Freleng cartoons such as Sandy Claws ( 1955 ), Mexicali Shmoes ( 1959 ), Mouse and Garden ( 1960 ), and The Pied Piper of Guadalupe ( 1961 ) were Oscar nominees.

The players were still wearing old red Sounds uniforms with a green patch placed on it saying " Claws ," along with unaltered red Sounds warmups.

The Claws players were put into a dispersal draft.

In Terry Pluto's book on the ABA, " Loose Balls ", Daniels recalled that the Claws ' players were allowed to take equipment and furniture from the team office in lieu of payment.

After three preseason games, the Baltimore Claws were shut down by the league due to financial problems and unpaid bills.

Again, onycha in Greek means “ fingernail ” or “ claw .” Claws were used in ancient Egypt to collect labdanum.

Claws, or rakes, were used to collect the labdanum from the cistus bushes and smaller claws, or combs, were used to collect labdamun from the beards of the wild goats.

Blacksad and Weekly cross paths with a violent black power organisation called the Black Claws, which were originally accused of Kyle's abduction.

Four games were released in the series: Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, Bubsy 2, Bubsy in: Fractured Furry Tales, and Bubsy 3D: Furbitten Planet.

There were four different figures ( Adam Warlock, Bone Claws Wolverine, Scarlet Spider and Night Armor Iron Man ), each came with a different card.

Claws were applied to gloves, and necklaces were made from teeth, to add to the idea that Cruella enjoyed wearing parts of dead animals.

One non-surgical alternative to declawing available through veterinarians is the application of vinyl nail caps ( marketed in the US under brand names such as Soft Paws and Soft Claws ) that are affixed to the claws with nontoxic glue, requiring periodic replacement when the cat sheds its claw sheaths ( usually every four to six weeks, depending on the cat's scratching habits ).

Scorpion anatomy: 1 = Cephalothorax or Prosoma ; 2 = Abdomen or Mesosoma ; 3 = Tail or Metasoma ; 4 = Claws or Pedipalp s 5 = Legs ; 6 = Mouth parts or Chelicerae ; 7 = pincers or Chelae ; 8 = Moveable claw or Tarsus ( zoology ) | Tarsus ; 9 = Fixed claw or Manus ( skeleton ) | Manus ; 10 = Sting or Telson ; 11 = Anus.

In the very first Perry Mason novel, The Case of the Velvet Claws, written in the early days of the Great Depression it is revealed that Della Street came from a wealthy, or at least well-to-do, family that was wiped out by the stock market crash of 1929, forcing Della to get a job as a secretary.

Two days later the Claws lost to the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers 103-82 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

* The Baltimore Claws, newest team in the American Basketball Association, played their third and final exhibition game, losing to the Virginia Squires, 100-88, before a crowd of 500 people.

The team initially called itself the Baltimore Hustlers, but league and public pressure forced them to change it to the Claws.

The Claws also suited up guard Skip Wise, who the prior year was the first freshman to make the Atlantic Coast Conference all-conference first team, but then did not return to Clemson for his sophomore year.

The Claws ' best known player, Mel Daniels, was disappointed at the Claws ' fate and retired rather than play for another team.

The Claws got together half of the money but could not raise the rest.