His club was stripped of its French league championship, though not of the Champions League title, and later suffered a forced relegation to the second division because of financial irregularities widely blamed on Tapie.

In 1916, the league stripped Livingstone of the Shamrocks franchise and fielded a second team in Toronto for the 1916 – 17 season.

Marseille was then caught in a bribery scandal, was stripped of its 1993 league title, and were relegated despite its second place in 1994.

Hoddle arrived at a troubled club with The Robins badly affected by a financial scandal which had seen them stripped of promotion to the First Division at the end of the 1989 – 90 season, a controversy which had negatively impacted the team's league form as they had been forced to sell several key players including midfielder Alan McLoughlin.

Named to the NFL's all-pro team in the 1920s, his playing highlight occurred in a 1923 game when he stripped Jim Thorpe of the ball, recovered the fumble, and returned it 98 yards — a league record which would stand until 1972.

He is therefore currently on a streak of eight straight league wins in three different countries and with five different clubs, including the later stripped wins with Juventus.

Marseille had also won the 1993 league championship, but were stripped of their title after club president Bernard Tapie was found guilty of bribing one of Marseille's opponents.

The owner, Emilio Maurer Espinoza, was accused of irregularities in his administration and was stripped of the club and expelled from the league.

The league also fined the Timberwolves $ 3. 5 million and suspended general manager Kevin McHale for one year.

After his playing career, Mikan became one of the founding fathers of the American Basketball Association ( ABA ), serving as commissioner of that league, and was also vital for the forming of the Minnesota Timberwolves.

The league later found out about this violation and voided the last year of the contract, also severely punishing the Timberwolves by taking away five first-round draft picks ( though two of the picks were ultimately returned ) and fining the team $ 3. 5 million.

He has played in the NBA for the Minnesota Timberwolves, Utah Jazz, Golden State Warriors and Indiana Pacers, in the CBA for the Yakima Sun Kings, in the USBL for the Saint Joseph Express, in the NBA D-League with the Albuquerque Thunderbirds, Canton Charge, and Erie BayHawks, and in the Italian top league for Mabo Prefabbricati Livorno, Lottomatica Virtus Roma and Montepaschi Siena.

After playing just 12 games for the Warriors, he signed as a free agent with the Minnesota Timberwolves after playing on their summer league team.

After a failed return attempt with the Minnesota Timberwolves ( 2005-06's preseason ), Humphrey moved to the Italian league, with Bipop Carire Reggio Emilia.

However, five American League teams had threatened to block the league assignments because of concerns that they would have additional games out of their time zone, causing early starts that would decrease revenue and TV ratings.

During the next five years, two more non-Victorian teams, Fremantle and Port Adelaide, joined the league.

The Boston Red Stockings won four championships in the five seasons of the new National Association, the first professional league.

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.

Young led his league in wins five times ( 1892, 1895, and 1901 – 1903 ), finishing second twice.

Star receiver Michael Irvin was suspended by the league for the first five games of 1996 following a drug-related arrest ; he came back after the Cowboys started the season 2-3 ; they finished 10-6 and won the NFC East title, but were eliminated in the divisional round of the playoffs 26-17 by the second-year Carolina Panthers.

He was one of the first five African Americans to play in the league.

This led Hank Aaron to a major league contract and a Braves uniform with the number five.

On April 13, Aaron made his major league debut and was hitless in five at-bats against the Cincinnati Reds ' left-hander Joe Nuxhall.

Overall, they have won fifty-three official titles on the national and international stage, more than any other Italian club: a record twenty-eight league titles, a record nine Italian cups and five national super cups and, with eleven titles in confederation and inter-confederation competitions ( two Intercontinental Cups, two European Champion Clubs ' Cup / UEFA Champions Leagues, one European Cup Winners ' Cup, a record three UEFA Cups, one UEFA Intertoto Cup and two UEFA Super Cups ) the club currently ranks fourth in Europe and seventh in the world with the most trophies won.

In 1985, under the management of Giovanni Trapattoni, who led the Torinese team to thirteen official trophies in ten years until 1986, including six league titles and five international titles ; Juventus became the first club in the history of European football to have won all three major competitions organised by the Union of European Football Associations: the European Champions ' Cup, the ( now-defunct ) Cup Winners ' Cup and the UEFA Cup ( the first Italian and Southern European side to win the tournament ).

The Brewers alone had three players finish in the top five in the league in home runs with Gorman Thomas, who led the league with 39, Ben Oglivie, who hit 34, and Cecil Cooper, who hit 32.

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

With players such as Alworth, Paul Lowe, Keith Lincoln and John Hadl, the high-scoring Chargers won divisional crowns five of the league ’ s first six seasons and the AFL title in 1963 with a 51 – 10 victory over the Boston Patriots.

As of 2010, the Chargers ' policy was to have the Chargers Hall of Fame committee evaluate candidates for a player's number to retire after the player has retired from the league after five years, Seau was the only exception to this policy.

After the 1972 season, European long track skaters founded a professional league, International Speedskating League, which included Ard Schenk, three-time Olympic gold medallist in 1972, as well as five Norwegians, four other Dutchmen, three Swedes, and a few other skaters.

Then, Jones and Johnson made a move midway through the 1989 season that shocked many in the league: they traded their only Pro Bowl player, running back Herschel Walker, to the Minnesota Vikings for five veteran players and eight draft choices.

It is also the strongest league in Europe over the past five years, according to UEFA's league coefficient.

He struggled to adapt to the English game and failed to score in the club's next five league matches, prompting ridicule by the national press.

Hereford has a thriving nine pin skittle league, formed on 24 October 1902, and today consisting of five divisions.

In the 1985 – 86 season, he scored 37 goals in 26 league matches, including six goals against Sparta Rotterdam and five against Heracles Almelo, and won the European Golden Boot.

** Only player in major league history to play more than 500 games at five different positions – 1B ( 939 ), LF ( 671 ), 3B ( 634 ), 2B ( 628 ), RF ( 595 )

Over the next decade, as the communists established the People's Republic of China and consolidated control over mainland China, Inner Mongolia was expanded westwards to include five of the six original leagues ( except Josutu League, which remains in Liaoning province ), the northern part of the Chahar region, by then a league as well ( southern Chahar remains in Hebei province ), the Hetao region, and the Alashan and Ejine banners.

At around the same time a league from Glassboro State College also formed a similar baseball league and had its first draft in 1976.

The game's innovation was that " owners " in a Rotisserie league would draft teams from the list of active Major League Baseball players and would follow their statistics during the ongoing season to compile their scores.

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 first and only main draft for the league took place over a three day time period from October 28, 2000 to October 30, 2000.

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.

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.

Cechmanek was traded to Los Angeles for a 2004 second round draft pick during the off-season despite having the second-best goals-against average in the league over his three years in Philadelphia.

With the lockout resolved in 2005, the league organized an unprecedented draft lottery to set the 2005 draft order.

It is classified as a " Short-Season A " league ; its season starts in June, after major-league teams have signed their amateur draft picks to professional contracts, and ends in early September.

The league is classified as a Short-Season A league, which means that its season does not start until June, after major-league teams have signed their amateur draft picks to professional contracts, and ends in September.

The league's season starts in June, after major league teams have signed players that they selected in the annual amateur draft, and ends in September.

GCL games are perhaps the least competitive of all minor league games, as most of the players were just drafted in that year's entry draft ( 2 – 3 weeks before the season's start ) and are there to develop skills under their employer's tutelage rather than ( necessarily ) to win games or entertain fans.

Popular power forward Charles Oakley, who had led the league in total rebounds in both ' 87 and ' 88, was traded on the eve of the 1988 draft to the New York Knicks along with a Round 1 draft pick used by the Knicks on Rod Strickland for center Bill Cartwright and a 1st round draft pick which the Bulls used to obtain center Will Perdue.

Several losing seasons followed which saw the Cavaliers drop to the bottom of the league and become a perennial lottery draft team.

This was done in spite of significant handicaps the NBA imposed on the incoming ABA teams, limiting their draft picks and television revenues during their early time in the merged league.

With the third-worst record in the league, the Spurs won the NBA's draft lottery, which gave them the top pick in the 1997 draft.

They finished with the fourth worst record in the league, and in the Draft Lottery, won the opportunity to select first overall in the draft, whereas the team had never had a draft pick higher than third overall.