The team showcased international stars such as midfield captain Rodney Marsh ( England ), league leading goal scorer Oscar Fabbiani, swift and lethal forward Steve Wegerle ( South Africa ), rock-solid defenseman Arsene Auguste ( Haiti ), popular player Derek Smethurst ( South Africa ), who was the franchise's all-time leading goal scorer with 57 tallies in 65 games and Peter " Kosta " Johansson, former Swedish National Team member.

The 1992 Tournament showcased all of NZ Rugby league talent and Australian Rugby league scouts were already booked to witness the 1994 Pacific Cup held in Fiji.

The current world rankings show England in top place for association croquet, followed by Australia and New Zealand sharing second place, with the United States in fourth position ; the same four countries appear in the top six of the golf croquet league table, below Egypt in top position, and with South Africa at number five.

In its current format, the Italian Football Championship was revised from having regional and interregional rounds, to a single-tier league from the 1929 – 30 season onwards.

The current league organization divides thirty teams into two conferences of three divisions with five teams each.

Two current major league franchises, the Atlanta Braves and the Chicago Cubs, can trace their origins to the National Association.

Three of the 8 current GBL cities are former Western League markets, as Reno was added to the circuit in 2006, while St. George became a member of the league in 2007.

In, the original South Atlantic League ( nicknamed the " Sally League " and not related to the current league of the same name ) changed its name to the Southern League.

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 ).

The current league was founded in 1941, and contained teams in Anaheim, Bakersfield, Fresno, Merced, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara and Stockton.

The current league of that name adopted the moniker in 1980, having previously been the Western Carolinas League, founded in 1963.

The Hamilton Red Wings folded early in the 1956 season, and with no more teams in Ontario, the league adopted its current name in 1957.

As of the current, it consists of a first round single elimination knock out game between the two wildcards in each league, a best-of-5 second round series, called the Division Series, and two rounds of best-of-seven series for the League Championship and World Series.

The Japan Football League, the current Japanese third division, uses the Promotion / Relegation Series only when the number of clubs in the league needs to be filled with clubs from the Japanese Regional Leagues.

The current stadium was established in 1985 at a site that had been used for minor league baseball since 1954.

After changes in membership that saw charter members Pittsburgh and Villanova leave and new members St. Bonaventure ( 1979 ), Rhode Island ( 1980 ), Saint Joseph's ( 1982 ) and Temple ( 1982 ) enter, establishing the league with 10 members, the conference adopted the current Atlantic 10 name in 1982.

Further membership changes saw the league expand to its 16 current members.

The current league organization features 8 teams in a single division.

* Keith Brooking, current National Football league linebacker with Georgia Tech, Atlanta Falcons, and Dallas Cowboys.

The Quincy Chiefs of the minor league Eastern Basketball Association ( the predecessor to the current Continental Basketball Association ) played a single season in 1977-78, and was coached and managed by current Boston Celtics executive Leo Papile.

* Sean Doolittle ( born 1986 ), baseball standout at the University of Virginia and 1st round draft choice and current minor league first baseman in the Oakland Athletics system.

* Chris Heintz, Former MLB player and current manager of Minnesota Twins minor league affiliate

* Ellis Burks, former major league baseball player and current special assistant to the General Manager of the Cleveland Indians

* Ken " The Hawk " Harrelson, Former Major league baseball player, current T. V.

The current franchise dates from 1994, when Joe Buzas, a former major league player and the owner of the PCL Portland Beavers, moved the team to Salt Lake City.

He'd also formed a blueprint for the prospective league's operations, which included early television exposure, heavy promotion in home markets, and owners willing to absorb years of losses — which he felt would be inevitable until the league found its feet.

The Metroplex had been mentioned as a possible expansion site since the 1950s, and Arlington Mayor Tom Vandergriff figured that Arlington, halfway between the two cities, would be the best site for a prospective major league team.

However, in order to stop the new league, each league allowed that they would be adding two new teams each, three of which ended up in the prospective CL cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Houston, and New York City.

Seattle had been mentioned several times as a prospective major league city.

A week later, after vetoing several prospective owners, the league folded the team.

Additionally, prospective owners may face expensive fees to the league as well as high start-up costs such as stadiums and facilities.

The end result was prospective owners saw NIFL as a league to avoid which was a major factor in the league's problems in 2007.

However, the league was faced with a lack of prospective owners for the team and with declining economic conditions and disbanded the Voyageurs in March 2009.

Through the 2009-2010 NBA season, 152 hoosier athletes have played professional basketball in the world's top league.

NBA refer to the National Basketball Association, the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America

* NBA Development League, the official minor league basketball organization of the National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association ( NBA ) is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America.

With thirty franchised member clubs ( 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada ), the NBA is widely considered to be the premier men's professional basketball league in the world.

In 1950, the NBA consolidated to eleven franchises, a process that continued until 1953 – 54, when the league reached its smallest size of eight franchises, all of which are still in the league ( the New York Knicks, Boston Celtics, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Lakers, Royals / Kings, Detroit Pistons, Atlanta Hawks, and Nationals / 76ers ).

Following the 1976 season, the leagues reached a settlement that provided for the addition of four ABA franchises to the NBA, raising the number of franchises in the league at that time to 22.

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 1996, the NBA created a women's league, the Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA ).

In 2001, an affiliated minor league, the National Basketball Development League, now called the NBA Development League ( or D-League ) was created.

Before the league was started, there were strong rumors that the NBA would purchase the CBA, and call it its developmental league, as the Continental Basketball Association was its " minor league " affiliate for years.

20 % of NBA players spent time in this league and over 143 players have been called up to play in the NBA.

In 2011 the first official NBA league games on European ground took place.

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

* The last week in October is the only time of the year when all four major North American Sports league schedule games-the NBA generally starts in that last week while the MLB postseason is just ending.

The league was founded on April 24, 1996, as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

This independent ownership is important to the WNBA's growth ; at one time, all teams in the league were owned by the NBA.

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.

Teams and the league were collectively owned by the NBA until the end of 2002, when the NBA sold WNBA teams either to their NBA counterparts in the same city or to a third party.