The PCL has had a long tradition on the West Coast, with teams with evocative names such as the Hollywood Stars, Los Angeles Angels, Mission Reds ( representing San Francisco's Mission District ), Oakland Oaks, Portland Beavers, Sacramento Solons, Salt Lake Bees, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Seals, Seattle Rainiers, Spokane Indians, Vernon Tigers ( later the Tacoma Tigers ), Vancouver Canadians, and the Hawaii Islanders.

2006, a year which many experts predicted continued improvement for the Tigers, saw them lose their first H & A match by 115 points, against the Western Bulldogs, after which followed losses to St Kilda and West Coast.

Comstock Park is the home of the West Michigan Whitecaps, an affiliate of the Detroit Tigers.

The " Rock Creek Tigers " played until 1948, when fielding a team became too expensive, and its remaining players began playing for Wisner and the West Point, Nebraska Bombers.

Controversy dogged the tournament before any games were played, however, when Australia and the West Indies refused to send their teams to Sri Lanka following the Central Bank bombing by the Tamil Tigers in January, citing security concerns.

A shocking moment occurred in Round 10, 2005, when the Tigers, who were 2nd behind the West Coast Eagles leading into its match against at Etihad Stadium, lost forward Nathan G. Brown ( who had previously played under Wallace at the Western Bulldogs ) to a gruesome leg injury late in the match.

The Ming Dynasty writer Li Yutang named Di Qing, Shi Yu, Zhang Zhong, Li Yi, and Liu Qing as the " Five Tiger Generals " in his works Romance of Di Qing, The Five Tigers Conquer the West, and The Five Tigers Pacify the South.

Leyland left the Tigers organization for the first time in 1982 when he became Tony La Russa's third base coach for four seasons ( 1982 – 85 ) with the Chicago White Sox, including the team's 1983 AL West division title, before being named the 33rd manager in Pittsburgh Pirates history on November 20, 1985.

The West Michigan Whitecaps are a Class A minor league baseball team, affiliated with the Detroit Tigers, that plays in the Midwest League.

The other teams in the league are Indianapolis ABC's, Detroit Stars, St. Louis Stars, Cuban Stars ( West ), Toledo Tigers, and Milwaukee Bears.

Australian rules football is played by four clubs from the Shoalhaven area, with the Nowra Blues playing at West Street Oval, Albatross Demons at Tom Smith Oval, and the Bomaderry Tigers at Artie Smith Oval.

One of the early stars to emerge from Tecumseh Park was London West resident, George Gibson, a young bricklayer-homebuilder turned catcher who enjoyed a lengthy playing career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, winning the World Series in 1909 by beating Ty Cobb's Detroit Tigers.

Paul Brown, the head coach of the Massillon Tigers, the Cleveland Browns, and founder of the Cincinnati Bengals, was the originator of this playbook ; however, he did not name it the West Coast Offense.

University of the Pacific competes in NCAA Division I athletics as the Pacific Tigers in the Big West Conference, where they are the only private school in the conference.

During his career he played for Wakefield, West Hartlepool, Newcastle Falcons, Leicester Tigers, Perpignan, Leeds Tykes and Nottingham, England and the British Lions.

Traditionally, some clubs ( notably Leicester Tigers and Bristol ) have used alternative schemes consisting of letters, Bath and Richmond have used a scheme without a number 13 and West Hartlepool RFC hung up their No. 5 jersey in memory of their lock John How who died of a heart condition in a 1994 league match.

The Claremont Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football club based in Claremont, Western Australia, that currently plays in the West Australian Football League ( WAFL ).

Castleford Tigers are a professional rugby league club based in Castleford in West Yorkshire, England.

The A's won the American League West division by games over the Chicago White Sox then defeated the Detroit Tigers, three games to two, in the American League Championship Series.

The Cubs finally brought a championship to West Side Park the following year when they swept the Detroit Tigers after ending the first contest in a tie.

In 1908, West Side Park became the home of the first repeat world champions when the Cubs again bested the Tigers.

The team lost their first three Premiership games before turning their season around with a run of ten home matches without defeat, including wins over champions Leicester Tigers, and West Country rivals Bath.

For many years he simultaneously produced the daily strip, a weekly syndicated newspaper column, and a 500-station radio program ...." He ran the Boston Summer Theatre with The Phantom cartoonist Lee Falk, bringing in Hollywood actors such as Mae West, Melvyn Douglas and Claude Rains to star in their live productions.

Chess was staged in London's West End Prince Edward Theatre in May 1986, and ran for almost three years.

Though the Bengals ran it with some success, like the West Coast Offense the scheme became more successful elsewhere, in this case with the rival Pittsburgh Steelers, where LeBeau has served two stints as defensive coordinator.

Though there may have been earlier attempts to pull cars by endless ropes, the first cable car installation in operation was the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway in New York City, which ran from 1 July 1868 to 1870.

The party ran candidates in all 43 constituencies, and had candidates elected in every constituency except Dublin North – West.

The West Country Production Cars were later reclassified as hot rods to come in line with the country's other promoters although this causes some confusion with the history of the West country racing as there was another class called Hot Rods that ran on those tracks.

The musical ran on Broadway in 1951 and in the West End in 1953.

The West End production opened on February 11, 1953 at Her Majesty's Theatre and ran for 477 performances.

A critically acclaimed 2001 Chicago Shakespeare Theater production, directed by Gary Griffin, transferred to the West End Donmar Warehouse, where it ran from June 30, 2003 until September 6, 2003 and received the 2003 Olivier Award for Best Musical Production.

The show ran at The Comedy Theatre in London's West end in 1965.

It ran for from Paddington station to West Drayton and came into operation on 9 July 1839.

He resettled to the Kiryat Arba settlement in the West Bank, and was politically active for years – he saw Rabbi Meir Kahane as a hero, and had been Kahane's campaign manager when he ran for the Israeli parliament through Kahane's Kach party.

The 1958 European premiere at the Manchester Opera House transferred to London, where it opened at Her Majesty's Theatre in the West End on Friday December 12, 1958 and ran until June 1961 with a total of 1, 039 performances.

" He directed a pre-Broadway production of West Side Story at the National Theatre in Washington, D. C. that ran from December 15, 2008 through January 17, 2009.

It has been said that the Grace family ran the West Gloucestershire " almost as a private club ".

The term was first used in the West in Italian, where rabeschi was used in the 16th century as a term for " pilaster ornaments featuring acanthus decoration, specifically " running scrolls " that ran vertically up a panel or pilaster, rather than horizontally along a frieze.

David Benson's 1996 Edinburgh Fringe show, Think No Evil of Us: My Life with Kenneth Williams, saw Benson playing Williams ; after touring, the show ran in London's West End.

Humphrey ran for Majority Leader after the 1976 election but lost to Robert Byrd of West Virginia.

In agreement with MD, VA and PA, the Road was to be rebuilt, resurfaced and the section that ran over Haystack Mountain, just West of Cumberland, MD, was abandoned and the new Road was built through the Narrows.

A version ran for two series from June 6, 1991 to September 20, 1992 with Paul Coia as host, but only aired in the HTV West ITV region.

Brigadoon then received a West End production opening in 1949 that ran for 685 performances, and many revivals followed.

Tousey had his “ big six ”: Work and Win ( featuring Fred Fearnot, a serious rival to the soon to be popular Frank Merriwell ) Secret Service, Pluck and Luck, Wild West Weekly, Fame and Fortune, and The Liberty Boys of ’ 76, all of which ran over a thousand weekly issues apiece.

Later, non-Brighton trains ran via Elephant & Castle and Streatham to West Croydon, Carshalton Beeches, Sutton, Epsom, Leatherhead and Effingham Junction, terminating at Guildford.

In 1915 the line was extended further to Queen's Park, where it joined the DC lines of the London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ) that ran alongside the LNWR's main line ( now the West Coast Main Line ) as far as Watford Junction.