Since no arena in Detroit was ready at the time, the Cougars played their first season in Windsor, Ontario at the Border Cities Arena.

The ABA also had several " regional " franchises, such as the Virginia Squires and Carolina Cougars, that played " home " games in several cities.

* Larry Miller, Class of 1964, Basketball Star for University of North Carolina during the 1960s and played professionally in the ABA from 1968-1975 as a member of the Los Angeles Stars, Carolina Cougars, San Diego Conquistadors, Virginia Squires, and Utah Stars.

On December 22, 2004 the band played its first show in three years at Double Door with The Tossers and Cougars supporting.

He played high school baseball for the Crenshaw High School Cougars along with Chris Brown.

In 2011, the University of Washington began a $ 250 million renovation to Husky Stadium, so the Huskies and the Washington State Cougars played the 2011 Apple Cup at CenturyLink Field.

Noteworthy is the Apple Cup football game, the annual rivalry game between the Washington Huskies and the Washington State Cougars, played every other year in Pullman.

However, due to financial problems the team only played for one season, and became the Connecticut Cougars the following year.

Series MVP Josh Beckett played for the Cougars in 2000, while Dontrelle Willis had the league's best winning percentage and earned run average in 2002.

Kitchener faced off against the Victoria Cougars and the defending champions, the Cornwall Royals, in the Memorial Cup played in Windsor, Ontario, and the Windsor Arena.

He then attended the University of Houston and played three seasons for the Cougars baseball team.

* Craig Moss, Keighley Cougars Rugby League footballer, and also played for Knottingley Rockware ARLFC.

He began his career with the Nanaimo Clippers of the British Columbia Hockey League, for whom he played the 1979 – 1980 season, and then the Victoria Cougars of the WHL from 1980 to 1982.

The first collegiate football game played in the Kingdome was between the Washington State Cougars and USC Trojans, when Ricky Bell set the NCAA single-game rushing yardage record ( later broken by Reuben Mayes of Washington State ).< ref >

Michigan played the Washington State Cougars in the Rose Bowl.

The Victoria Cougars were a major league professional ice hockey team that played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association ( PCHA ) from 1922 to 1924, and ( after the PCHA's merger with the Western Canada Hockey League ) in the Western Hockey League ( WHL ) from 1924 to 1926.

HISD football games continued to be played at the stadium when the Houston Cougars football team played their inaugural game in front of a crowd of 11, 000 with Southwestern Louisiana ( now known as Louisiana – Lafayette ).

Pogge played his first one-and-a-half seasons in the Western Hockey League ( WHL ) with the Prince George Cougars before being dealt to the Calgary Hitmen at the 2004 – 05 trade deadline.

In 1993, he played for the Kane County Cougars of the Midwest League.

The Cougars played their first game at the Olympia on November 22, 1927 and Detroit's Johnny Sheppard scored the first goal at the new building.

His son, Michael Fogolin, played for the Prince George Cougars in the WHL and died in his sleep on May 26, 2004 of a possible heart condition.

Detmer attended Brigham Young University, where he played for the BYU Cougars football team from 1987 to 1991.

He played with the A-level Kane County Cougars in 1993 and the AA Portland Sea Dogs.

Reed played Pacific Eight Conference college football with the Washington State University Cougars from 1959 to 1962 where he was teamed with fellow CFL Hall of Famer Hugh Campbell.

For the 1927 – 28 season, the Cougars moved into the new Detroit Olympia, which would be their home rink until December 27, 1979.

In 1930, the Cougars were renamed the Falcons, but their woes continued, as they usually finished near the bottom of the standings, even though they made the playoffs again in 1932.

The one-time jerseys were based on the uniforms worn by the then-Detroit Cougars during their inaugural season of 1926 – 27.

The Cougars won five of the eight games and their crowds ranged from 42, 912 to 63, 588.

Rather than change their name to Regina Cougars, the football team continued to use the moniker " Rams.

The Cougars play their home games at Fifth Third Bank Ballpark, built in 1991.

The Whitecaps went on to defeat the Kane County Cougars in four games to win their fourth Midwest League Championship.

The 28-yard field goal attempt was partially blocked by BYU defensive tackle Eathyn Manumaleuna and fell short giving BYU their second Vegas Bowl victory in three tries, also making the Cougars the first school to win back-to-back Las Vegas Bowls.

* Besides the Captains, the only other minor league baseball teams with the word " county " in their official moniker are the Brevard County Manatees, Kane County Cougars, Lake County Fielders, and Orange County Flyers.

The Spirits ( who took their name from the Atlantic Ocean-crossing plane flown by Charles Lindbergh ) were the third incarnation of a franchise that was once known as the Houston Mavericks and later the Carolina Cougars.

Despite their history, they essentially were an expansion team, as there was just one holdover from the Cougars.

At the game, several Longhorn players saw what had happened and began taunting UH players by holding up their hands with the ring finger bent, suggesting the Cougars were invalids.

In 1922 they changed their name to the Victoria Cougars.

American football made a brief appearance at the ground when the Leeds Cougars, members of the British American Football League, switched from their old ground at Bramley to play at Elland Road in May 1986.

Beginning with the 1994 season, the Houston Cougars football team began splitting their home schedule with the Astrodome and Robertson Stadium.

The expansion Cougars play their first 22 " home " games in Windsor, Ontario at the Border Cities Arena.

The rights to the Victoria Cougars ' players were bought by the Detroit franchise ( which would eventually become the Detroit Red Wings ) causing the team to be named the Detroit Cougars in their honor, and the Portland Rosebuds ' players ' rights were purchased by Frederic McLaughlin for his new Black Hawks team.

The Cougars beat the New York Nets in their first-round playoff series 4-1, but lost a close series to the Kentucky Colonels 4-3 in the Eastern Division finals.

Shortly thereafter, the primary tenants of the building, the NHL Cougars, began their long residence.

One college club, the BYU Cougars men's team, have foregone playing in the NCAA or NAIA and instead play all of their games in the PDL.

The BYU Cougars team is the men's college soccer team of Brigham Young University, and are one of the few openly religious teams in the PDL, their host university being the flagship educational establishment of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.