Bellerive Oval has been the breeding ground of some world class cricket players including the former Australia captain Ricky Ponting.

In 1882, the club amalgamated with the Hotham Cricket Club and moved into the North Melbourne Recreation Reserve ( Arden St Oval ) which has remained as the home of the club up until this day.

The Whitten Oval has undergone a A $ 20 million redevelopment which greatly improved the Club's headquarters and training facilities.

Since the club's inception in 1885, it has been based at the Richmond Cricket Ground ( better known as the Punt Road Oval ), just a few hundred metres to the east of the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ).

Most early internationals ( including the first ever international football match ( 1870 )) were played at the Oval, which had been built in 1845 and has always been a major cricket venue.

The town also has two Australian rules football clubs ; Broome Bulls Football Club ( established 1949 ) and the Broome Saints competing in the West Kimberley Football Association with games played at Haynes Oval.

East Fremantle Oval has been the team's home ground since 1953.

Hudson has been the subject of three plays: Hollywood Valhalla by Aidan Harney, starring Patrick Byrnes as Rock and Stewart Roche as his personal trainer, Toby, which was staged at Bewley's Cafe Theatre, Dublin, Ireland, in 2011 ; " For Roy ", by Nambi E. Kelley, starring Richard Henzel as Roy and Hannah Gomez as Caregiver, which was staged at American Theatre Company in Chicago in 2010 and Rock, by Tim Fountain, starring Michael Xavier as Rock and Bette Bourne as his agent Henry Willson, which was staged at London's Oval House Theatre in 2008.

* FA Cup final – Old Etonians 1 – 0 Blackburn Rovers at The Oval, the first time that a professional club has reached the final

The Oval Office has become associated in Americans ' minds with the presidency itself through memorable images, such as a young John F. Kennedy, Jr. peering through the front panel of his father's desk, President Richard Nixon speaking by telephone with the Apollo 11 astronauts during their moonwalk, and daughter Amy Carter bringing her Siamese cat Misty Malarky Ying Yang to brighten President Jimmy Carter's day.

Since the present Oval Office's construction in 1934 during the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt the room has remained mostly unchanged architecturally.

The school has playing – fields in Centennial Park with the Fairland pavilion and fenced cricket ground, McKay Oval.

These include the historic Junction Oval which has in the past been a prominent VFL / AFL venue and more recently a training facility for the Melbourne Football Club.

The Oval once held the record for the largest playing area of any Test venue in the world, but that record has since been surpassed by Gaddafi Stadium in Pakistan ( though it is still the largest in Britain ).

The Olympic Oval has now been re-nicknamed The fastest ice in the world, holding 12 current world records.

The Neumann Oval in Brisbane has been renamed Allan Border Field and is occasionally used by Queensland as an alternative home ground to The Gabba.

Bangor has tennis courts and two sporting ovals ( Akuna Oval and Billa Oval ) named after the roads they are situated on.

The club's football department and training sessions are based at its traditional home ground at Arden Street Oval, which has recently been redeveloped.

Affectionately embracing satirical portrayals has been a Bush tactic at other times as well, such as when he presented a self-parodying slide show at the May 2004 Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner about looking for weapons of mass destruction in the Oval Office after the political comic strip Doonesbury satirically portrayed him on a similar comical search.

* The fenced playground for young kids at Lionel Watts Oval ( Blackbutts Rd ) has a mini-track suitable for toddlers and small kids on tricycles.

The suburb also has many junior football teams, including the Northern Knights, who play in the TAC Cup and the Preston Bullants Junior Football club whose home ground is Preston City Oval.

The Preston City Oval is also home to the Preston Cricket Club, which has played their home games there since c1860.

In a December 1992 article for The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh reported that President Richard Nixon and Charles Colson had repeatedly discussed the Capp case in Oval Office recordings that had recently been made available by the National Archives.

By the 1880s the tradition of England-Australia cricket tours was well established, with a total of eight Tests having been played, five of them at the MCG, two at the Sydney Cricket Ground and one at The Oval in London.

Grace produced his season's highlight in the South v North match at The Oval when he made his highest career score to date of 268, having been dismissed by Jem Shaw for nought in the first innings.

The club shared the Punt Road Oval with the Richmond Cricket Club, one of the strongest cricket clubs in Australia which had been playing on the ground since 1856.

* 21, 22 & 23 July — in a remarkable all-round performance, V E Walker of Middlesex, playing for All-England Eleven versus Surrey at The Oval, takes all ten wickets in the Surrey first innings and follows by scoring 108 in the All-England second innings, having been the not out batsman in the first with 20.

There have been four sets of flooring in the Oval Office.

The final Test at The Oval was ruined by rain and drawn after England scored 326 – 6 declared and India had been bowled out for only 98.

Construction of The Oval began in 1985, nearly four years after Calgary had been designated host of the XV Olympic Winter Games.

Other stadiums like Adelaide Oval and Sydney Cricket Ground have been known to assist spinners more as these pitches have more dust cover.

V E Walker of Middlesex, playing for All-England versus Surrey at The Oval on 21, 22 & 23 July 1859, took all ten wickets in the Surrey first innings and followed this by scoring 108 in the England second innings, having been the not out batsman in the first ( 20 *).

After Ward had been astounded by the cornering ability of Cooper's little cars on the road course, he offered to arrange a test for them at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, saying, " You've got to try out your car around the Oval.

With the modern passing game believed to have been innovated in London and with England being home to the oldest football clubs in the world dating from at least 1857, the world's oldest football trophy, the Youdan Cup, the first national competition, the FA Cup founded in 1871, and the first ever association football league ( 1888 ) as well as England having the first national football team that hosted the world's first ever international football match, a 1-1 draw with Scotland on 5 March 1870 at The Oval in London, England is considered the home of the game of football.

" As Alexander Woolcott noted, in an introduction to a Reader's Club edition of Roughead, even U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had a special shelf just outside of the Oval Office, labelled " The President's Shelf ", with the " rarest of brews " being Roosevelt's personal selection of Roughead.

In a rain-hit series in 1926, England managed to eke out a 1 – 0 victory with a win in the final Test at The Oval.

The 1948 series ended with one of the most poignant moments in cricket history, as Bradman played his final innings for Australia in the Fifth Test at The Oval, needing to score only four runs to end with a career batting average of exactly 100.

Cricket Australia proposed that the 2010 – 11 series consist of six Tests, with the additional game to be played at Bellerive Oval in Hobart.

President Kennedy meets with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in the Oval Office ( October 18, 1962 )

From 1960 these were replaced with Stainless Steel ID Tags on a Green Nylon Cord, 2 circular & 1 Oval, the Oval was withdrawn around 1990

He also fell out publicly with other players, including fellow England opener Geoff Boycott, Somerset captain Peter Roebuck, and Australian batsman Ian Chappell, with whom he had an altercation in an Adelaide Oval car park during the 2010 – 11 Ashes series.

Major then famously announced to the press that he intended to go with his family to The Oval to watch cricket.

Lewinsky alleged that between November 1995 and March 1997, she had nine sexual encounters with then-President Bill Clinton that, according to her testimony, involved fellatio and other sexual acts in the Oval Office, but that none of them involved sexual intercourse.

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During the 1960s, cartoonists of military comic strips went to the White House and met with Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office.

The Swans share a long and storied rivalry with St Kilda which dates back to the days when South Melbourne played at the Lake Oval on the other side of Melbourne's Albert Park Lake, not far from St Kilda's old home ground, Junction Oval.

They are standing in the Oval Office, with a portrait of Osama Bin Laden hanging on the wall and an American flag burning in the fireplace in the background.

In late 2010 the University opened an $ 8 million Sport and Recreation Learning Centre in partnership with the Western Bulldogs Football Club at Whitten Oval in West Footscray.

In the 1990s, Bill and Hillary Clinton refurbished some rooms with the assistance of Arkansas decorator Kaki Hockersmith, including the Oval Office, the East Room, Blue Room, State Dining Room, Lincoln Bedroom, and Lincoln Sitting Room.

The West Wing houses the President's office ( the Oval Office ) and offices of his senior staff, with room for about 50 employees.

The highest wicket partnership of Grace's career was 283 runs for the first wicket with Bransby Cooper for the Gentlemen of the South v the Players of the South at The Oval in 1869.

Peres was sworn in as President on 15 July 2007. Shimon Peres meeting with Barack Obama in the Oval Office.

Graham Martin ( left ) during a meeting at Oval Office with President Gerald Ford, General Frederick C. Weyand and Henry Kissinger

Captain James Cook described an island " of Oval form with a Lagoon in the middle " in 1769.