The Baltimore Ravens are officially a quasi-expansion franchise, having originated in 1996 with the Cleveland Browns relocation controversy after Art Modell, then owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced his intention to relocate the team to Baltimore.

The Cleveland team originated in 1900 as the Lake Shores, when the American League ( AL ) was officially a minor league.

Kansas City used to have an NBA team, which had originated in 1945 in Rochester, New York ( as the Rochester Royals ), before becoming the Cincinnati Royals.

The NBA originated in 1946 with 11 teams, and through a sequence of team expansions, reductions, and relocations currently consists of 30 teams.

The Athletics ' name originated in the term " Athletic Club " for local gentlemen's clubs — dates to 1860 when an amateur team, the Athletic ( Club ) of Philadelphia, was formed.

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century.

It originated circa 1990 at the International Computer Science Institute ( ICSI ) at the University of California, Berkeley, developed by an international team led by Steve Omohundro.

The idea of using this particular raw material originated from Edison's recalling his examination of a few threads from a bamboo fishing pole while relaxing on the shore of Battle Lake in the present-day state of Wyoming, where he and other members of a scientific team had traveled so that they could clearly observe a total eclipse of the sun on July 29, 1878, from the Continental Divide.

The team originated as the Boston Braves, based in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1932.

The team originated that year in Vancouver, British Columbia and relocated to Memphis in 2001.

A 2011 study by graduate student Sean Lee belonging to the team of Hasegawa Junichi that a common origin of Japonic languages had originated around 2, 182 years before present.

The team's name, logo, and color scheme originated with the Memphis Sounds of the American Basketball Association ( ABA ), who used them for one season in 1974 before the team relocated and became the Baltimore Claws.

The team originated in 1908 as a semi-pro team named the Akron Indians, however name was changed to the Pros in 1920 as the team set out to become a charter member of the American Professional Football Association Fritz Pollard, the first African-American head coach in the NFL, co-coached the Pros in 1921.

The Maroons originated as a semi-pro football team known as the Toledo Athletic Association, in 1902.

In recent years, ComedySportz has been licensed in Manchester, England, although this the team originated in Chorley, Lancashire.

North Stars radio broadcasts originated from WCCO Radio from 1967 to 1978, then moved to another Twin Cities-based clear-channel station, KSTP, where radio broadcasts stayed until the team moved to Dallas in 1993, save a few seasons on a 5, 000-watt radio station, WAYL.

In 1957 during his tenure as commissioner, Frick addressed an organized campaign of ballot stuffing for that year's All-Star Game in which most of the ballots originated from Cincinnati and had stacked the National League team with Reds.

They remain the only professional club in British football to have originated from a school team.

The term originated within the military to describe a team whose purpose is to penetrate security of " friendly " installations to test security measures.

It was while the team was in Barbados that one of the most repeated " Trueman stories " is said to have originated, although it is almost certainly apocryphal.

The development team planned to take tracking software into a new standard of quality, enabling tracking scene composers to make audio of the same quality as other existing professional packages, while still keeping the proven layout that originated with Soundtracker in 1987.

originated as a team for Homerton College, in Homerton, playing on the marshes ; and adopting Lea Bridge Road for a time, before settling at Brisbane Road.

The name " Oxford Group " originated in South Africa in 1929, as a result of a railway porter writing the name on the windows of those compartments reserved by a travelling team of Frank Buchman followers.

The greatest team of this period was unquestionably the New York Yankees, bought by brewery millions and made into a ball club by men named Ed Barrow and Miller Huggins.

The Auburn Doubledays are a minor league baseball team based in Doubleday's hometown of Auburn, New York.

* 1937 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand race car driver, founded the McLaren racing team ) ( d. 1970 )

The TV series emphasizes the boisterous nature of the team, led by manager Billy Martin, catcher Thurman Munson and outfielder Reggie Jackson, as well as the malaise of the Bronx and New York City in general during that time, such as the blackout, the city's serious financial woes and near bankruptcy, the arson for insurance payments, and the election of Ed Koch as mayor.

The first team to play baseball under modern rules were the New York Knickerbockers.

Shaw & Shrewsbury Team, 1888, The first British or Irish touring rugby team, a private-enterprise trip to Australia and New Zealand

No more than twelve months passed before the British and Irish team ventured to Australia and New Zealand in 1904.

The team managed two early wins before losing the test to New Zealand and only winning one more game as well as drawing once.

The Lions performed well in the remaining All Black tests though they lost all three, the team did not lose another non-test in the New Zealand leg of the tour.

The 1983 tour to New Zealand saw the team successful on the non-test front, winning all but two games, but getting white-washed in the test-series against the All Blacks.

The Lions ' 2005 tour to New Zealand, coached by 2003 England world cup winning coach Clive Woodward, won all seven games against provincial teams however suffered heavy defeats in all three tests and were narrowly defeated by the New Zealand Maori team.

* Wednesday 12 June 2013, New South Wales / Queensland Country invitational team Ausgrid Stadium, Newcastle

In 1901, Baltimore and McGraw were awarded an expansion franchise in the growing American League, but again the team was sacrificed in favor of a New York City franchise, as the team was transferred to New York in 1903.

After some early struggles, that team eventually became baseball's most successful franchise — the New York Yankees.

* Buffalo Bills, an NFL football team from Buffalo, New York

* Buffalo Sabres, an NHL hockey team from Buffalo, New York

The original team was christened the Blue Angels in 1946, when one of the pilots came across the name of New York City's Blue Angel Nightclub in The New Yorker magazine ; the team introduced themselves as the " Blue Angels " to the public for the first time on 21 July 1946, in Omaha, Nebraska.

In 1967, the title went to Brabham's team mate, New Zealander Denny Hulme.