In, Chicago was poised to fare even better in the playoffs, winning the Presidents ' Trophy for best regular-season record, but the Cinderella Minnesota North Stars stunned them in six games in the first-round en route to an improbable Stanley Cup Final appearance.

The Ryder Cup, and its counterpart the Presidents Cup, are unusual in the world of professional sports since despite being high-profile events that bring in tens of millions of dollars in television and sponsorship revenue the players receive no prize money.

They include the biennial Ryder Cup played by two teams, one representing the USA and the other representing Europe ; the biennial Presidents Cup for teams representing the USA and International ( non-European ) players ; the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship ; and the older Volvo World Match Play Championship, an invitational event which is now part of the European Tour.

At the 1998 Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Australia, Norman and Woods played a close match, with Woods winning 1-up.

( Besides the Woods match, the International Team's victory over the U. S. Team in Norman's home country was one of the great moments of Norman's career, and to date still the only win for the International Team in Presidents Cup matches ).

The Presidents Cup in men's golf, held in odd-numbered years, features competition between a United States team and an " International " team made up of non-European players ( Europeans compete against the USA in even-numbered years in the Ryder Cup ).

* Presidents Cup Senior " B "

He played on six Ryder Cup teams, captained the team twice and the Presidents Cup team four times, and topped the PGA Tour money list and scoring average eight times each.

* North East Wales Presidents Cup

Mold Alexandra won the Welsh National League's Presidents Cup on 9 August 2008 beating Brymbo 5-1 at Brymbo, the scorers for Mold where Gary Burns ( 15 ), Owain Roberts ( 20 ), Darren Pritchard ( 65 ), Wayne Craig ( 86 ) and Dave Bryan ( 89 ) and for the record Brymbo's came from Shaun Edwards ( 27 ).

** Presidents Cup Winners 2008

In 2002, the club had one of the best seasons in its history, achieving a treble of the Cheshire Senior Cup, the Presidents Cup and the Northern Premier League Premier Division, thus being promoted back to the Football Conference ( though they were relegated after only one season ).

The Presidents ' Trophy winner is guaranteed home-ice advantage in all four rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs, provided the team advances that far.

However, it does not guarantee that success, as only seven of all the Presidents ' Trophy winners have gone on to win the Stanley Cup in their respective years, leading to a popular superstition that the trophy may be cursed.

In September 2007, Royal Montreal hosted the Presidents Cup ; an event which enables the World's best non-European players to compete in an international team match play competition against the top 12 PGA Tour players in the United States.

Going into the season the two favorites were the Ottawa Senators in the east, who had won the Presidents ' Trophy and come within a win of the Stanley Cup finals the year before ; and the Colorado Avalanche in the west, who despite losing legendary goaltender Patrick Roy to retirement, added both Teemu Selanne and Paul Kariya to an already star-studded lineup.

Dassler's proximity to Havelange and his support for Juan Antonio Samaranch, the Presidents of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) enabled ISL to win lucrative future World Cup and Olympic contracts.

The Links of Fancourt staged the 2003 Presidents Cup matches between the USA and an international team, captained by Gary Player.

In some team events, such as the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup ( except for singles matches in the latter competition while its overall outcome remains in doubt ), a match that is tied after 18 holes is not continued, and is called " halved ", with each team receiving half a point.

Alongside the biennial Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup team competitions, the majors are golf's marquee events.

* Past members of Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup teams in first year of age eligibility

* Playing members of the last named Presidents Cup or Ryder Cup teams ( whichever was played last ).

From 1999 to 2001, only the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup teams were eligible and the field was about 40 players.

Prior to 2011, both Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup teams were eligible.

* Members of both Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup teams for the last five competitions

In 2005 and 2007, it was held in the same week as Europe's Ryder Cup opponents, Team USA, took on the " International Team " in the Presidents Cup.

DiMarco was also a member of the U. S. national team in the 2003 and 2005 Presidents Cup, and the Ryder Cup competitions in 2004 and 2006.

Funk was a member of the United States teams at the 2003 and 2005 Presidents Cup and the 2004 Ryder Cup ; he received some criticism in 2004 for opting out of The Open Championship, a major, despite having qualified.

Roberts played for the United States in the 1995 Ryder Cup, 1994 and 2000 Presidents Cups, and 2001 UBS Warburg Cup.

He was 3-1 at the Ryder Cup, 4-2-1 at the Presidents Cups, and 1-2 at the UBS Warburg Cup.

Mama said that if Presidents were supposed to be colorful, Mr. Coolidge certainly made a good president.

At last the White House is going to get some much-copied furniture by that master American craftsman, Duncan Phyfe, whose designs were snubbed in his lifetime when the U. S. Presidents of the 19th Century sent abroad for their furnishings.

( The other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover.

The Wings finished first in the Western Conference and tied for first in the NHL with the Buffalo Sabres, but the Sabres were awarded the Presidents ' Trophy by virtue of having the greater number of wins.

From 1911 to 1915, there were six different Presidents, each of whom was killed or forced into exile.

Only two weeks before Kennedy had spoken in more conciliatory tones, speaking of " improving relations with the Soviet Union ": in response to Kennedy's Berlin speech, Nikita Khrushchev, days later, remarked that " one would think that the speeches were made by two different Presidents.

Presidents still acted like dictators, elections did not stay free, and the Legionnaires were out of power in less than a decade.

They were introduced with: " Ladies and gentlemen, the Presidents of the United States.

To manage the growing federal bureaucracy, Presidents have gradually surrounded themselves with many layers of staff, who were eventually organized into the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

However, these fears were not borne out as successive Presidents played a limited, largely apolitical role in national affairs.

Presidents prior to the presidency of Mary Robinson were regularly refused permission by the Irish government to visit Northern Ireland.

Vice Presidents John Tyler and Millard Fillmore were both sworn in on the death of their predecessors by Chief Justice William Cranch of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia.

Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Rutherford Hayes were Whigs before switching to the Republican Party, from which they were elected to office.

" However, until 1919, Vice Presidents were not included in meetings of the President's Cabinet.

By the time of his presidency, Wilson hoped that Presidents could be party leaders in the same way British prime ministers were.

Garfield was the second of four United States Presidents who were assassinated.

As of 2007, Tennessee had 32 dedicated historical markers linked to Nathan Bedford Forrest, more than are dedicated to the three former Presidents associated with the state: Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and Andrew Johnson ( none of whom were born in Tennessee ).< ref >

In addition, Vernon Smith ( 2002 ) and Elinor Ostrom ( 2009 ) were former Presidents of the Public Choice Society.

Presidents were elected by the National Assembly until the first Presidential election in 1996.

The Presidents who have been prohibited from continuing to seek election to the presidency under the amendment are Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush ; all were elected to the presidency twice.

Staging the second coast-to-coast Finals in league history, the Canucks were matched against the Presidents ' Trophy-winning New York Rangers.

According to Hayes, Wheeler " was one of the few Vice Presidents who were on cordial terms, intimate and friendly, with the President.

Two United States Presidents, the 9th, William Henry Harrison, and the 10th, John Tyler, were born in and called Charles City, VA home.