To avoid the ambiguity of the term British, and to more emphatically associate the team's identity with both the United Kingdom and Ireland, from the 2001 tour of Australia the name British and Irish Lions has been used.

A fan contest, drawing 33, 288 voters, was then held to determine the team's name.

For years many sources have listed " Pilgrims " as the early Boston AL team's official nickname, but researcher Bill Nowlin has demonstrated that the name was barely used, if at all, during the team's early years.

The NL actually gave permission to the AL to put a team in Chicago, provided he not use the city name in the team's branding.

In June 1945, a committee selected " Panthers " as the new team's name.

Several Grand Prix teams established formal links with F3000 teams to develop young drivers ( and engineering talent ); these relationships varied from formal " junior teams " ( such as the one McLaren set up for Nick Heidfeld ) to fairly distant relationships based mostly upon shared sponsors and the use of the ' parent ' team's name.

The team immediately excelled under Kuenn's low-key managerial style and gained a new nickname as Harvey's Wallbangers, a play on the drink Harvey Wallbanger and the team's manager's name.

The following winter, locals were allowed to submit ideas for the Boston football team's official name.

In 1980, the Saints lost their first 14 games, prompting local sportscaster Bernard " Buddy D " Diliberto to advise Saints supporters to wear paper bags over their heads at the team's home games ; many bags rendered the club's name as the "' Aints " rather than the " Saints.

His first order of business, after changing the team's name and jerseys, was to sign Joe Namath to an unprecedented contract.

Also New Order recorded the official song of the England national football team's 1990 World Cup campaign, " World in Motion ", under the ad-hoc band name EnglandNewOrder.

Until 1954, when the uniforms had " Athletics " spelled out in script across the front, the team's name never appeared on either home or road uniforms.

Upon moving to Oakland, the " A " cap emblem was restored, although in 1970 an " apostrophe-s " was added to the cap and uniform emblem to reflect the fact that Finley was in the process of officially changing the team's name to the " A's.

The nickname " A's " has long been used interchangeably with " Athletics ," dating to the team's early days when headline writers wanted a way to shorten the name.

From 1972 through 1980, the team nickname was officially " Oakland A's ," although, during that time, the Commissioner's Trophy, given out annually to the winner of baseball's World Series, still listed the team's name as the " Oakland Athletics " on the gold-plated pennant representing the Oakland franchise.

In 1973, the team's name was added below the eagle, which returned to its pre -' 69 look.

The team's logo combination ( the eagle and club name lettering ) also changed in 1996, with the eagle itself limited to a white ( bald eagle ) head, drawn in a less realistic, more cartoon-based style, and the lettering changing from calligraphic to block letters.

The new owner, Bob Carpenter, Jr., scion of the Delaware-based DuPont family, tried to polish the team's image by unofficially changing its name to the " Bluejays ".

The team's name, Spanish for " fathers ", refers to the Spanish Franciscan friars who founded San Diego in 1769.

After the new Adelphia Coliseum, now known as LP Field, was completed in 1999, the team's name was changed to Tennessee Titans.

In tournament play, the chair umpire announces the end of the match with the well-known phrase " Game, set, match " followed by the winning person's or team's name.

The team's name is borrowed from the famous law enforcement agency of the same name.

The stadium " Tivoli ", opened in 1928, served as the venue for the team's home games and was well known for its incomparable atmosphere throughout the whole of the second division.

Both Johnson and Schilling had suffered injuries during the season and Schilling was traded in the off season to the Boston Red Sox where he contributed to that team's 2004 World Series victory.

Jeff Moorad, a former sports agent, joined the partnership, and was named the team's CEO ; becoming its primary public face.

However, the team's history during that period was hardly one of futility, but was rather punctuated with some of the most memorable moments in World Series history, including Enos Slaughter's " mad dash " in, the " Impossible Dream " of, Carlton Fisk's home run in, and Bill Buckner's error in.

" The team's first demonstration before Navy officials took place on 10 May 1946 and was met with enthusiastic approval.

The team's SNJ was also replaced by a F8F-1 " Bearcat ", painted yellow for the air combat routine.

He was replaced by Captain Greg McWherter, the team's previous Commanding Officer.

In 1983 the Brabham BT52, driven by Piquet and Italian Riccardo Patrese, was powered by the BMW M12 Straight-4 engine, and powered Brabham to four of the team's 35 Grand Prix victories.

The team was founded in the 1940s as a charter franchise in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ), with Paul Brown, the team's namesake and a pioneering figure in professional football, as its first coach.

Negotiations with players were handled by John Brickels, the team's acting manager, as Brown was still in the Navy.

Former Browns RB Jim Brown, who was a prominent member of the 1964 NFL Championship team, the team's all-time leader in rushing yards, and a Pro Football Hall of Fame member.

After Seifert was fired following the disastrous 2001 season, the Panthers hired New York Giants defensive coordinator John Fox as the team's third head coach.

Mike Brown, the team's de facto general manager, was rated as among the worst team owners in American professional sports Compounding matters were off-field problems of several players, notably receiver Chris Henry, who was suspended several times during his short professional career and was actually released by the Bengals at one point, but was then re-signed for the season.

Lajoie was named manager in, and the team's fortunes improved somewhat.

Manny Acta was hired as the team's 40th manager on October 25, 2009.

The team's commitment to contend was complete when Green made a midseason deal on June 15 to shore up the starting rotation due to injuries to Rick Reuschel ( 5 – 5 ) and Sanderson.

Once again, though, the team's pitching was a glaring weakness, as the staff had an ERA of 6. 02.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the crest of the former metropolitan borough of Greenwich was used as a symbol for the club but this was not used on the team's shirts.

Then-Bengals defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau ( who would later be the team's head coach from 2000 – 2002 ) created the zone blitz in the 1980s in response to the West Coast Offense.

He is a mosquito, created in honour of the team's back-to-back Premierships side in the 1920s known as the Mosquito Fleet.

McLain created more dissension when he clashed with Tigers ' manager Mayo Smith over the latter's role in the firing of Johnny Sain as the team's pitching coach.

The League of Gentlemen have played in total nearly a hundred characters, many created in the early stage shows, others during the span of the television series and some specially for the team's film.

The mascot was created by the famous cartoonist Ziraldo based on the expression " Esquadrão de Aço " ( Steel Squad in English ), and wears a costume very similar to the original Superman's costume, which shares the team's colors.

In 2002, the Thunder undertook a marketing re-branding endeavor, where a new logo was created consisting of a soccer ball with movement lines and a T below the words of team's name.

Even the basic version of runs created usually predicts a team's run total within a 5 % margin of error.

During the team's 2004 – 05 and 2005 – 06 campaigns, the coach frequently fielded a 4 – 1 – 2 – 2 – 1 formation, a system which encouraged the creativity of the players in the front third of the field and created optimal interplay between the midfielders and forwards during attacks.

However, when the team's fortunes began to change in the mid – 1990s and they began drawing large crowds, especially in the post-season, the noise created an electric atmosphere and gave the home team a distinct advantage similar to the effect on football games.

All of the team's logos and fonts were created and designed by Studio Simon of Louisville, Kentucky.

During the winter after the 1977 season, Dennis Lehman, who thought that the team needed a mascot similar to San Diego's Famous Chicken created the Phanatic with help from Harrison / Erickson of New York City ( now known as Acme Mascots ), which had ties with Jim Henson's Muppets, and the team's marketing and promotions department.

In 1990 in Italy, where the national team got as far as the quarterfinal, the team's play was mainly created by Chovanec, Bílek, Hašek and other Sparta players, such as Skuhravý, who went on to became a star of the Italian league.

In the summer of 2012 after several months of negotiations Ivan Savvidi became the new major shareholder of PAOK after investing 12 milion euros, the 2 of them were given at the club as a loan in May 2012. The new shareholder of PAOK established a new financial policy at the club in order to pay off the vast debts which were created by the previous administrations and so the club would from now on use players from the academies rather than buying foreign players with doubtful quality. PAOK board appointed the young and talented Greek coach Giorgos Donis after terminating the contract with László Bölöni due to a bad season. PAOK enter the Europa League 3rd Qualification Round and with an 0-2 away and a 4-1 home win over Bnei Yehuda was qualifed for the Play – Off Round where the club faced Rapid Wien but was eliminated after a 2-1 home win and a 3-0 away defeat. The elimination was a serious financial blow to the club since the economic profits from a qualification would cover over half of the team's budget from the 2012-2013 season.

The twist on the new Spider was that he was really a villain-and in this particular adventure, had been working with the team's arch-enemy the Hand, who created the original Nebula Man.

The team's friendly game in September 2009 with Adana Demirspor created a leftist rally in the city of Adana, surprising everyone in Turkey.

* Doctor " Tiger " Ninestein ( real first name unknown ): Terrahawk's pilot and the team's leader, so named as he is the ninth clone created by Dr. Gerhard Stein.

Roger Legeay was the Peugeot team's last manager, and he created Vétements Z-Peugeot in 1987 ( taking its name from the children's clothing brand Z and the car manufacturer Peugeot ).

Arup was awarded the 2010 Live Design Excellence Award for Theatre Design for the integrated theatre and acoustic team's design for the new Jerome Robbins Theatre, created for Mikhail Baryshnikov and The Wooster Group.

During the battle, the 2004 team's Element Lad created Kryptonite that unexpectedly affected Superboy-Prime.

Between 1915 and 1924 he coached Passaic High School to a remarkable 200-1 record, winning seven state basketball championships during his tenure, though the team's success on the court created conflict between Blood and the school's principal, Arnold D. Arnold, who thought that the team's overwhelming athletic accomplishments were distracting students from their academics.

The Jazz hoped he could fill a void in the team's defense created by the retirement of Mark Eaton a few seasons earlier.

The following day, the team retracted the announcement, claiming that it had been a publicity stunt created by the team's marketing department.

In December 2006, as the founder of the Montreal Canadiens, John Ambrose O ' Brien was an inaugural inductee in the team's newly created ' Builders Row ' in the Bell Centre.