After the league office informed him that his proposed combination too closely resembled that worn by the San Diego Chargers, he settled on black as the primary color as a nod to his financial involvement in the petroleum industry.

The team wore black helmets during the 1969 preseason, but NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle barred the Saints from using the helmets during the regular season, since Mecom did not notify the league office of the change.

Current league commissioner David Stern took office on April 1, 1984, and oversaw the expansion and growth of the NBA to a global commodity.

In July 2011, the NBA laid off around 114 league employees ( about 11 percent of all the league office workforce ) to save money.

In 1971, the league changed its name to the Gulf South Conference ; added Southeastern Louisiana ( SELA ) and Nicholls State ( increasing the membership to eight ); opened an office in Hammond, Louisiana ; and began championships in all men ’ s sports.

And the rise of corporate office building industrial and business parks, as well a proposal of bringing minor league baseball of the California League.

After leaving school, Chappell spent two years as a clerk in a sharebroker's office, which he left to play league cricket in England.

In 1994 Rudy Giuliani took office as mayor of New York, and supported a plan to build a sporting complex named Sportsplex, provided it include a stadium for a minor league baseball team owned by the New York Mets.

Dunn first achieved renown in 1914, when his Orioles were running away with the league pennant but losing money at the box office because of a rival Federal League team in town purporting to be a major league club.

After being based for 50 years in central London, the league is now based at an office in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire.

As the league's founding commissioner, ( 1986 – 1992 ) he established a league office with a small staff in suburban Chicago, and with addition of some much needed additional investor capital, was ready to launch the Arena Football League.

The ABA first located its league office in Minneapolis, MN and the future looked bright for the Muskies, who shared the same offices as the league.

With their 1920 success ( and a crackdown by the NFL on playing non-league teams ), the Lumberjacks joined the league in 1921 as the Tonawanda Lumbermen or Tonawanda Kardex, named for ( and presumably sponsored by ) the office supply company of the same name, still in business today .< sup ></ sup >

According to Condors general manager Allison Hodges, she was on her way to a press conference announcing her team's name when the league office called to say the season was canceled.

The Kansas City franchise had been declared bankrupt and taken over by the league office after the close of the regular season, and the Baltimore owners rejected the offer made to them.

The league office moved its physical location from Salem, Virginia, to Forest, Virginia, just outside of centrally located Lynchburg, and contracted with Jim Ward Design for its new marks.

He had already verbally agreed to an office job with the Nordiques and since his retirement papers had yet to be filed with the NHL offices, league tampering bylaws prevented him to accept an off-ice position with a team that didn't own his playing rights.

The governments of the league, (), is the administrative branch office dispatched by People's Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Although baseball's subsequent commissioners have not had the absolute power that Landis did, current Commissioner Bud Selig has succeeded in centralizing authority over Major League Baseball in the commissioner's office, relegating the position of league president to an honorary title and giving baseball's commissioner competencies similar to those of his colleagues in the other major sports.

The goals of the league were to use their collective best efforts to secure the nomination and election of men for office within the state.

At the major-league and high minor-league ( Class AAA and AA ) levels, the crew chief acts as a liaison between the league office and the crew and has a supervisory role over other members of the crew.

The league maintains its headquarters in San Antonio.

Shorty after the decline in sports entertainment the town became the headquarters for a baseketball league.

Secaucus was the headquarters of Major League Lacrosse for the first four seasons of the league.

North Greenbush is home to the southern part of the Hudson Valley Community College ( HVCC ) campus, including the Joseph L. Bruno Stadium, home to the Tri-City Valley Cats minor league baseball team ; the RPI Tech Park ; the La Salle Institute ; the New York State National Guard Armory, headquarters for the Rainbow Division ; and various Rensselaer County government institutions.

The league operated as a single-entity structure, with practically all operations handled out of headquarters in Palo Alto, California.

This was the home of the Woolston Rovers rugby league side and also the Cheshire Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps with their headquarters Kennedy Hall.

From 1908 to 1994, the NSWRL ran Sydney's, then New South Wales ', and eventually Australia's top-level rugby league club competition from their headquarters ( or " Bunker " as it was nicknamed during the Super League war ) on Phillip Street, Sydney.

Every spring, the WNBA Draft is held at league headquarters in Secaucus, New Jersey.

The Sydney Institute of Sport is based in Narrabeen and has recently become the headquarters of the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles rugby league club.

Carr moved the Association's headquarters to Columbus, drafted a league constitution and by-laws, gave teams territorial rights, developed membership criteria for the franchises, and issued standings for the first time, so that the APFA would have a clear champion.

The teams shut down all on the same day as all invoiced expenses were paid by the league headquarters on a budget system.

A plaque on the office building that replaced the Dodgers ' old headquarters at 215 Montague Street identifies it as the site where Jackie Robinson signed his major league contract. the Brooklyn Heights Promenade

Tien headquarters ( then Talpa ) in HilversumProgrammes included ' De Wedstrijden ' ( summaries of the Eredivisie football league ), Big Brother and Expeditie Robinson.

The Flames arranged a trade to the Toronto Maple Leafs, who thought they had made arrangements to have a contract signed by the appropriate deadline, but their fax to league headquarters did not make it in time.

The Association's headquarters was moved to Columbus, Ohio, and a league constitution and by-laws were drafted, giving teams territorial rights, restricting player movements, and developing membership criteria for the franchises.

The league headquarters moved to Jacksonville, Florida, with Jacksonville marketing executive Steve Gormley made the organization's new president ; David Niu would serve as CEO and maintain the northeastern branch.

In 2000 Super League American announced a reorganization ; the league headquarters were moved to Jacksonville, Florida, with Jacksonville-based marketing executive Steve Gormley serving as the organization's new president.

Most Arab countries broke relations with Egypt over the treaty, and league headquarters were moved from Cairo to Tunisia.

Dunn, who was tied for the major league lead with 32 home runs, was expected to provide a significant boost to an offense that has struggled to score runs for most of the season.

The town of Accrington thus has the unique " distinction " of having lost two separate clubs from league football.

" For pitchers, wins, ERA, and strikeouts are the most often-cited statistics, and a pitcher leading his league in these statistics may be referred to as a " Triple Crown " winner ( but normally he has won the Cy Young Award ).

The league average for on-base percentage has varied considerably over time ; in the modern era it is around. 340, whereas it was typically only. 300 in the dead-ball era.

Each top-level team has a farm system of one or more minor league teams.

The Western League began play in April 1894 with teams in Detroit ( the only league team that has not moved since ), Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Sioux City and Toledo.

Beginning in 2007, MLB has implemented a new rule to give the team from the league that wins the All-Star Game with the best regular season record a slightly greater advantage.

Starting in 2007, after consulting the MLBPA, MLB has decided to allow the team with the best record in the league that wins the All-Star Game to choose whether to use the seven-day schedule ( 1-2-off-3-4-off-5 ) or the eight-day schedule ( 1-off-2-off-3-4-off-5 ).

It has become a symbol of the Mets baseball team, recognized throughout the league as an iconic feature of the Mets ' stadiums.

The NFL has so far refused to acknowledge AAFC statistics and records because the Browns ' achievements – including their perfect season – did not take place in the NFL or against NFL teams, and not even in a league fully absorbed by the NFL.

Aside from Who Dey, the team also has the Cincinnati Ben – Gals, the team's cheerleading squad, which is known for having Laura Vikmanis, the oldest cheerleader in league history.

It is remarkable that the composition of this league does not reflect that of the Latin people who took part in the Latiar or Feriae Latinae given by Pliny and it has not as its leader the rex Nemorensis but a dictator Latinus.

The city has a Class A minor league baseball team, the Quad Cities River Bandits.

However, Per Thulberg, director general of the Swedish National Agency for Education, has said that the system " has not led to better results " and in the 2000s Sweden's ranking in the PISA league tables worsened.

Each league has slightly different rules regarding who is and is not considered an eligible receiver.

Water-based synthetic turfs enable the ball to be transferred more quickly than on the original sand-based surfaces and it is this characteristic that has made them the surface of choice for international and national league competitions.

The island also has a school wrestling league organized by the council and a programme to promote this sport in clubs.

They are also the only club in the league to have never finished lower than 12th position ( which has only been possible since the league's expansion in 1987 ).

He has the seventh-highest slugging percentage lifetime of any ballplayer in major league history, at. 605, ahead of such sluggers as Mark McGwire and Joe DiMaggio.

Arminia Hannover is another very traditional soccer team in Hanover that has played in the first league for years and plays now in the Niedersachsen-West Liga ( Lower Saxony League West ).

Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since the 1929-30 season.

But the team lost its next two games, and suffered embarrassing losses to the Houston Texans over the course of the season ( Jacksonville has struggled against the Texans since Houston entered the league in 2002 ).

At the beginning of the 2012 season Sporting started a perfect 7 – 0 – 0, and with the new addition of players such as Bobby Convey the team has remained on top of the league, setting an MLS record for most minutes played without allowing a shot on goal.