The league also held the 1966 NFL Expansion Draft six weeks later in which the Falcons selected unprotected players from existing franchises.

Between 1914 and 1915 talks were held for a proposed amalgamation with rugby league, the predominant code of football in New South Wales and Queensland was considered and trialled.

Charlton also held the club record for most league appearances ( 606 ) until this too was overtaken by Giggs on 6 March 2011.

There the simple open-air fane was held in common by the Latin tribes, which Rome aspired to weld into a league and direct.

By the end of the season, the Wizards held a record of 16 – 7 – 9, the best in the league.

* 1998 – Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens.

The expansion draft was held March 30 – 31, 1976, with Seattle and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers alternating picks for rounds selecting unprotected players from the other 26 teams in the league.

The top-ranked UEFA competition is the UEFA Champions League, which started in the 1992 / 93 season and gathers the top 1-4 teams of each country's league ( the number of teams depend on that country's ranking and can be upgraded or downgraded ); this competition was re-structured from a previous one that only gathered the top team of each country ( and thus less competitive, held from 1955 – 1992 and known as the European Champion Clubs Cup or just European Cup ).

On June 5, 2008, Major League Baseball held a special draft of the surviving Negro league players to acknowledge and rectify their exclusion from the major leagues on the basis of race.

Because the minor league team that last held Jim Thorpe's contract had disbanded in 1910, he found himself in the rare position of being a sought after free agent at the major league level during the era of the reserve clause, and thus had a choice of baseball teams for which to play.

While not the first major women's professional basketball league in the United States ( a distinction held by the defunct WBL ), the WNBA is the only league to receive full backing of the NBA.

The league announced it would seek new owners to relocate the team to the San Francisco Bay area ; however, no ownership was found and a dispersal draft was held on December 14, 2009.

The current league presidency is vacant due to the March 2012 death of former major league first baseman Don Mincher, who had held the position from 2000 to 2011 ( the first year as an interim ).

When Short indicated that he might take the team to new rival league that was developing however, the owners held another vote that same day and allowed the relocation ( 8 – 0 ).

The Oilers lost most of the players from 1978 – 79 when the NHL held a reclamation draft of players who had bolted to the upstart league as they were allowed to protect two goaltenders and two skill players.

To fill the Canucks ' roster for their inaugural season, the league held an Expansion Draft in the preceding summer.

It marked the first time in league history that a regular season game was held outside of North America – an effort from the league to attract attention to the sport in anticipation of the 1998 Winter Olympics, which were held in Nagano.

However, a championship play-off would be held if the top two teams were tied for points, goal difference and goals scored in both their overall league record and their matches against each other (" head-to-head " results ); to date, this has never happened.

Ventura County Fusion, a minor league soccer team playing in the USL Premier Development League, while based in nearby Ventura, has held home games at Newbury Park High School in Newbury Park.

In 1989 – 90, Jordan led the league in scoring for the fourth straight season, and was joined on the all-star squad for the first time by Scottie Pippen.

* Dick Seay ( 1904 – 1981 ), Negro league baseball all-star second baseman.

Kenny Stone, Basketball Player / Coach New Zealand Professional Basketball-Stone has won five National Basketball League championships, five all-star team honors, and one league Most Valuable Player award.

# Played at least five seasons in an American first-division professional league ( currently MLS or WPSL-Elite ), and won either the league championship, or the U. S. Open Cup, or was selected as a league all-star at least once.

The Sun managed to snag a top pick in one of the deepest draft classes in league history by trading perennial all-star point guard Shannon Johnson, a move that was universally panned by Sun fans.

The Japan Soccer League chose AIK as the opponent for their all-star team in their first ever all-star game since their foundation as a league.

The league was able to arrange an all-star game in 1979, which was played at the Felt Forum in New York City's Madison Square Garden in front of 2, 731 fans.

However, they were not so fortunate with all-star linebacker Jerrell Freeman, who led the league in tackles in 2011 and departed for the NFL.

An all-star game is an exhibition game played by the best players in their sports league, except in the circumstances of professional sports systems in which a democratic voting system is used.

In the United Kingdom, all-star teams ( both real and fantasy ) are usually denoted with the Roman numeral corresponding to the number of players allowed on the field-for example, a soccer or cricket XI, a rugby league XIII and a rugby union XV.

Major League Baseball is usually recognized as organizing the first professional league all-star game when it was held as part of the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago.

*** In 2006 and 2010, the league did not hold an all-star game, instead releasing its players to play ice hockey at the Olympic Games.

The league goes into an all-star break, with no regular-season games scheduled on the day before or the day after.

During the first five all-star games, an all-star team would face that year's league champion.

It was decided that the game would feature all-star teams from each of the league's two divisions rather than the league champion versus all-star format which had been used previously.

This was done to avoid confusion with the Chicago College All-Star Game, an annual game which featured the league champion against a collegiate all-star team.

The 2008 game was played in Denver, Colorado, in front of 10, 124 people, with the Western Conference defeating the Eastern Conference 31 – 15, setting a league record for most points scored by an all-star team.

He was named IHL goaltender of the month for March and earned a first team all-star selection after leading the league in wins, minutes played ( 3789 ) and saves ( 1708 ).

This eventually evolved into the current system where the league annually invites a club from abroad to play against a league all-star team.

This rule providing for a blackout of televised baseball 30 minutes before the start of a major or minor league game in any area comes from the game's top rulers.

It hosted the annual Hall of Fame Game, an exhibition game between two major league teams that was played from 1940 until 2008.

* 1975 – The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.

The Diamondbacks ' first major league game was played against the Colorado Rockies on March 31, 1998, at Bank One Ballpark before a standing-room only crowd of 50, 179.

* 1975 – Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.

Popularity of the VFL grew rapidly and by 1925 with 12 teams, had become the most prominent league in the game and would dominate so many aspects of the sport from that point on.

On August 22, 1982, Glenn Brummer stole home in the bottom of the 12th inning of a tie game, thus accomplishing a walk-off straight steal of home, one of the very few in major league history.

Nineteen-year-old rookie first baseman Fred Merkle, later to become one of the best players at his position in the league, was on first base, with teammate Moose McCormick on third with two out and the game tied.

Despite the arguments by the Giants, the league upheld O ' Day's decision and ordered the game replayed at the end of the season, if necessary.

To this day, it is a major league record for the biggest deficit overcome that late in the game.

It was based on the belief that if every coach, at every level, taught the game the same way, the organization could produce " replacement parts " that could be substituted seamlessly into the big league club with little or no adjustment.

In league competitions games may end in a draw, but in some knockout competitions if a game is tied at the end of regulation time it may go into extra time, which consists of two further 15-minute periods.

It was Graham's last game ; the win capped a 10-year run in which he led his team to the league championship every year, winning four in the AAFC and three in the NFL.

But the Lions dominated the game, forcing six turnovers and allowing only 112 yards passing in a 59 – 14 rout, Detroit's last league championship to date.

With the league rules permitting teams to wear their third jersey twice in the regular season and once in the preseason, the Panthers reserve the use of their alternate light blue jersey for a home game when there are one or two games that they don't wear them on the road.

That season, Feller set a record with 17 strikeouts in a single game and went on to lead the league in strikeouts from 1938 – 1941.

The Tigers won the pennant and Giebell never won another major league game.

Wood's signature performance was one-hitting the Houston Astros, a game in which he tied the major league record of 20 strikeouts in nine innings.

's best record, and tied the league record with eight representatives to the All-Star game, including catcher Geovany Soto, who was named Rookie of the Year. The Cubs took control of the division by sweeping a four game series in Milwaukee.

The New York Times reported that E-Sports Entertainment ESEA League started the first professional fantasy e-sports league in 2004 around the game of Counter-Strike.

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.

On December 31 of 1967 the Packers hosted the Cowboys in the league championship game in cold so brutal the game was nicknamed The Ice Bowl ; Packers quarterback Bart Starr's last-second quarterback sneak was the final touchdown in a 21-17 Packers win.

The Tigers played their first game as a major league team at home against the Milwaukee Brewers on April 25, 1901, with 10, 000 fans at Bennett Park.