The Ivy League enjoys no easy dominion here, and the boys are as likely to dress in rather foppish Continental fashion, or even in nondescript working class manner, as they are in the restrained, button-down Ivy way.

They called the new league the Continental League.

The Continental League folded before it ever started, but if its real object was to secure Houston a Major League franchise, it clearly succeeded.

In 1966, Robinson was hired as general manager for the short-lived Brooklyn Dodgers of the Continental Football League.

In 1960, the National League agreed to grant an expansion franchise to the owners of the New York franchise in the abortive Continental League, provided that a new stadium be built.

Although there were several challenges to Major League Baseball's primacy in the sport between the 1870s and the Federal League in 1916, the last such challenge was the aborted Continental League in 1960.

In the late 1950s, a serious attempt was made to establish a third major league, the Continental League, but that league never played.

Most notably, Bassett's Toronto Northmen were forced to find a new home after the Canadian government threatened to ban any American football team from competing with the Canadian Football League ( despite the fact that the Toronto Rifles of the Continental Football League had played in Toronto just seven years prior ); though the Canadian Football Act never passed, the mere threat of it prompted Bassett to move the team to Memphis, where they became the Memphis Southmen, but were generally referred to by fans, local media, and even some official team materials as the " Grizzlies ".

The Aces were league champions of the professional Continental Baseball League, in 2009, but when the CBL moved their market to western Texas, the Aces found a better fit in the Texas Collegiate League.

In 2009 the Aces joined the Continental Baseball League when the ULB went bankrupt.

* Pro Indoor Leagues: National indoor Football League ( NIFL ), United Indoor Football ( UIF ), Continental Indoor Football League ( CIFL ), Arena Football 2 ( Af2 ).

The Chesapeake Tide of the Continental Indoor Football League started play at the Show Place Arena, just outside of town, in 2007.

McMorran Arena once again hosted indoor football with the Port Huron Predators of the Continental Indoor Football League in 2011.

Marion, Ohio is the home of the Marion Blue Racers, an indoor football team in the Continental Indoor Football League, that plays at Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

In 2010, Hnida became the kicker for the Fort Wayne FireHawks in the Continental Indoor Football League.

He formerly owned the Phoenix Suns of the NBA, the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA, the Arizona Sandsharks of the Continental Indoor Soccer League, the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League and the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball.

Through the late 1970s and early 1980s, the group's popularity continued to grow ( although they were always more popular in North America and Continental Europe than in their home country, never achieving a UK Top 40 single or Top 20 album ).

Though the French designed the Continental System to achieve this, it never succeeded in its objective.

The United States had the experimental Continental IV-1430 inverted V12 engine under development, with a higher power-to-weight ratio than any of the initial versions of the German WW II inverted V12s, but was never developed to production status, with only 23 examples of the Continental inverted V12 ever being built.

Howe never attempted a major engagement with the Continental Army, which had come under the command of Major General George Washington.

But unlike Ireland, Louis XIV's Continental wars were never fought without compromise: the fighting provided a foundation for diplomatic negotiations and did not dictate a solution.

Her parents left, never to return, with the British during their withdrawal from Boston after the Continental Army fortified Dorchester Heights, a success that ironically hinged upon Knox's Ticonderoga expedition.

Gates had therefore placed the Continental regiments on his right flank, and the mass of militia which had joined him, nearly all of which had never even fought in a battle before on the left flank, facing the most experienced British regiments.

Although the Americans captured Montreal in November 1775, and established their headquarters at Château Ramezay, the region was never entirely under the control of the Continental Army.

While technically never a Lincoln and manufactured by a separate new division, Continental, the Mark II was sold and maintained through Lincoln dealerships, featured a Lincoln drivetrain, and sported a Lincoln-emulating spare tire hump in the trunk lid.

Gunn was selected as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1787 but never attended sessions.

Commander-in-chief General George Washington never allocated more than minimal Continental Army troops for the defense of the frontier and he told the frontier settlements to use local militia for their own defense.

At first all went well for André since the post commandant Lieutenant Colonel John Jameson decided to send him to Arnold, never suspecting that a high-ranking hero of the Revolution could be a turncoat, but then Major Benjamin Tallmadge, head of Continental Army Intelligence, arrived and persuaded Jameson to bring the prisoner back.

The Continental Navy never launched any ships of the line, so the small vessels were primarily used for commerce raiding.

" The problem with the Continental is that he never leaves his house.

While British football has never been rocked by match fixing allegations on the scale of the Black Sox scandal ( the aforementioned incidents involved league matches, not major championships ), football match-fixing has become a serious problem in parts of Continental Europe.

A private investigator employed as an operative of the Continental Detective Agency's San Francisco office, he never gives his name and so is known only by his job description.

General Motors ' plans in 1930 related to a prototype named the Abadal Continental never materialised.

Additional programming announced but never aired included Tales from the Great Book, an animated Bible series, plus regional coverage of the Continental Football League.

Although Ireland tends to be strongly associated in the popular mind with Celtic art, the early Continental style of Hallstatt style never reached Ireland and the succeeding La Tène style reached Ireland very late, perhaps from about 300 BC, and has left relatively few remains, which are often described by art historians together with their British contemporaries as " Insular Celtic ".

Made the senior captain in the Continental Navy due to political influence, he nevertheless had an undistinguished career, never winning a victory or capturing a prize.

The Second Continental Congress issued a response to the Proclamation on December 6, saying that while they had always been loyal to the king, the British Parliament never had any legitimate claim to authority over them, because the colonies were not democratically represented.

Though hampered by ice and cold, with John Glover's Marbleheaders ( 14th Continental Regiment ) manning the boats, he got the attack force of men, horses and artillery across the river without loss.

Jerry Lawler, Jerry Jarrett ( later one of the promoters behind Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ), Verne Gagne of the AWA, the Continental Wrestling Association ( CWA ), Ole Anderson of GCW, Jim Crockett Promotions, and other NWA promoters got together to co-promote wrestling shows nationally.

The same year he got his first opportunity on television in a show called Café Continental.

When he got back to Boston in December, he was elected to be a delegate to the Continental Congress.

Later they got a Continental Electronics 150 kW unit.

When the UCI division system changed in 2005, the main Rabobank cycling team ( with team code RAB ) became a UCI ProTeam, while the secondary team ( with team code RB3 ) got the UCI Continental status.