The Ohio Cup was an annual pre-season baseball game, which pitted the Ohio rivals Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds.

: VH1's 2001 show Bands on the Run was a notable early hybrid, in that the show featured four unsigned bands touring and making music as a professional activity, but also pitted the bands against one another in game show fashion to see which band could make the most money.

In that study, it was reported that when participants in a game of chance were pitted against a player they considered arrogant, inhaling oxytocin through the nose enhanced their feelings of schadenfreude when their opponent lost as well as their feelings of envy when their opponent won.

Thud, a modern game inspired by a series of fantasy novels by Terry Pratchett ( which in turn were inspired by the historical tafl games ), also features the general symmetry of tafl games, although it is played on an octagonal board with only eight defenders pitted against thirty-two attackers.

The game pitted an amateur all-star team from Philadelphia, led by Baker, against an all-star team from Pittsburgh's amateur leagues.

The game again pitted Big-12 champion # 3 Oklahoma against the Big East champion # 9 West Virginia.

*** Originally, the game pitted Eastern Conference and Western Conference all-star teams.

*** The 1998 game pitted an " MLS USA " team, consisting entirely of Americans, against an " MLS World " team drawn from all other nationalities.

Rincewind and Twoflower are controlled by the Lady, and is pitted against the champions of Zephyrus, the god of slight breezes, Fate and Offler the Crocodile God, in the game supervised by Blind Io.

In the game ’ s early years, except during World War I, the Rose Bowl always pitted a team — not necessarily the conference champion — from the Pacific Coast Conference ( PCC ), the predecessor of the current Pacific-12 Conference, against an opponent from the Eastern U. S. During the last two years of World War I, teams from military bases met in the Rose Bowl.

For its first five years, the game pitted the champion of the Southland Conference against an at-large opponent.

In most of its early history, the game pitted the champion of the Border Conference against an at-large opponent.

The inaugural game, played on December 28, 1990, pitted Florida State and Penn State, and two legendary coaches, Bobby Bowden versus Joe Paterno in front of over 74, 000 at Joe Robbie Stadium.

It pitted contestants against winners of at least $ 8, 000 on The $ 64, 000 Question in a new, continuing game where they could win another $ 64, 000.

His domestic career took off when, at 17, he was noticed by Krešimir Ćosić at a friendly youth tournament that featured Mašinac and KK Zadar among others, where Bodiroga scored 32 points in a game that pitted two teams.

Between 1946 – 66 and 1976 – 77, the game pitted the California Junior College football champions vs.

Kramer's most notable conflict other than with Newman is with Keith Hernandez in " The Boyfriend " until the baseball star straightens out the facts, along with the famous JFK parody and a battle-of-wits game of Risk, where the two are pitted against one another in a battle for world domination (" The Label Maker ").

Mariza sang the Portuguese national anthem at the 2002 FIFA World Cup of football, at the game which pitted the home team ( South Korea ) against Portugal.

The game pitted the capitalist West against the Communist East, and Israel against the country that was supplying its enemies with weapons.

Collyer went on to host the television versions of both shows, but in 1950 he got the job which genuinely made him a household name: Beat the Clock, a stunt game show which pitted couples ( usually, but not exclusively, married ) against the clock in a race to perform silly ( sometimes messy ) tasks, which were called " problems " but could with more accuracy be called " stunts.

The second season often featured " family challenge " games which pitted entire families against each other in performing certain activities ; the family with the fewest pied members when the game was over would be declared the winner.

The matchup once again pitted Self against John Calipari, who coached Memphis to a loss against Kansas in the 2008 National Championship game.

The bonus round pitted the winner of the standard game against the collective brain power of the eliminated contestants, with a bit of a twist: for each life the winner had remaining at the end of the game, they could eliminate an opponent, meaning they would not be allowed to help the rest answer the question.

Walsh felt that this was because the Cowboys were scheduled to play the Rams the next week in a rare Sunday night game and that showing the highlights of the 49ers ' win would potentially hurt the game's ratings.

The 49ers faced the Cowboys again that same season in the NFC title game.

The game was very close, and in the fourth quarter Walsh called a series of running plays as the 49ers marched down the field against the Cowboys prevent defense, which had been expecting the 49ers to mainly pass.

The Cowboys then finished an up-and-down 2006 season with a 9 – 7 record and a playoff appearance, but after a last second loss in the wild-card game against the Seattle Seahawks, Parcells retired and was succeeded by Wade Phillips.

The Cowboys played the New York Jets on a Sunday night primetime game in New York, on September 11th 2011.

The Cowboys held the lead through most of the game, until a fumble, blocked punt, and interception led to the Jets coming back to win the game.

Romo then threw 3 touchdown passes to Miles Austin as the Cowboys rallied to send the game into overtime.

On the Cowboys opening possession after 49ers punt, Romo found WR Jesse Holley on a 78 yard pass, which set up the game winning field goal by rookie kicker Dan Bailey.

During the same season, the Cowboys also wore their 1960 – 63 road jersey with a silver helmet for one game as part of a league-wide " throwback " policy.

This created a rare game in which neither team wore a white jersey and the first time the Cowboys wore the alternative uniform as a visiting team.

Other instances include the 2005 Monday Night game against the Washington Redskins when the team inducted Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Michael Irving into the Cowboys Ring of Honor, and the 2006 Christmas Day game against the Philadelphia Eagles.

The Washington Redskins, after wearing white exclusively in the ' 80s and ' 90s, including the 1982 NFC Championship Game ( having gone 3 – 0 in them during the regular season, during CBS ' pregame show, Jimmy " The Greek " Snyder actually invoked the blue jerseys in picking Dallas to win the game ), have since 2002 occasionally reverted to using their burgundy jerseys for second-half home games, but will still wear white against the Cowboys.

( Beginning with the January 2010 game, the Cotton Bowl Classic has been played at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.

The Cowboys lost their final game at Texas Stadium to the Baltimore Ravens, 33 – 24, on December 20, 2008.

Cowboys Stadium during a game

At the debut pre-season game of Cowboys Stadium, a punt by Tennessee Titans kicker, A. J. Trapasso, hit the 2, 100 in.

A league record-setting 105, 121 fans showed up to completely pack Cowboys Stadium for the game before which the traditional " blue star " at the 50 yard line was unveiled for the first time ; however, the Cowboys lost in the final seconds, 33 – 31.

The game was televised on ESPN's Monday Night Football and marked a record 42nd win for the Cowboys on MNF.

The last Cowboys game with Tom Landry as coach was a win over Washington on December 11, 1988.

In 2008 the rivalry became more intense when in the last game of the year in which both teams could clinch a playoff spot with a victory, the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Cowboys 44 – 6, and clinched a playoff spot, where they would go to lose the NFC Championship game to the Arizona Cardinals.

The following season, the Cowboys avenged that defeat by beating the Eagles three times: twice during the regular season to claim the title as NFC East champions and once more in a wild-card playoff game by a combined score of 78 – 30, including a 24 – 0 shutout in week 17.