With the benefit of a deep talent pool and superior scouts, the franchise continued to make improvements at the major league level.

With Colorado beating Detroit in the third round in 1996, in the second round of both 1999 and 2000, and the Red Wings beating the Avs in the third round in 1997, the battles between these two teams had become one of the fiercest in the league.

With Milan, Baresi won six scudetti ( Serie A league titles ) and three European Cups – though he did not take part in the last win, his club's 1994 Champions League victory, through suspension.

With a solid pitching rotation, which was now ranked among the best in the league, the team traded for 1988 All-Star first baseman Gerald Perry and signed yet another free agent with veteran right-hander Richard Dotson.

With the sale of Ian Rush to Juventus in 1987, Dalglish formed a new striker partnership of new signings John Aldridge and Peter Beardsley for the 1987 – 88 season, and he played only twice in a league campaign which saw Liverpool gain their 17th title.

With the threat of a New York team in a third league, the National League expanded, adding the New York Mets.

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.

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.

With their then-revolutionary 46 defense, Chicago led the league in several defensive categories, outscored their opponents with a staggering margin of 456-198, and recorded two postseason shutouts.

With all of these weapons, San Francisco's offense led the league in total yards from scrimmage ( 6, 268 ) and scoring ( 442 points ).

With 249 out of 421 completions and only 11 interceptions, he earned the second highest passer rating in the league ( 97. 9 ).

With Johnson as head coach and Jones as his own general manager, people in the league thought they could take advantage of them.

With Young at the helm, and a defense consisting of several veteran free agents that joined the team during the previous off-season, San Francisco finished the regular season with a league-best 13-3 record, and led the league in total points scored ( 505 ).

With Young at the helm, the 49ers led the league in total points scored ( 505 ) and helped them earn a league best 13-3 regular season record.

With that improvement, the team was sold to Robert Kraft in January 1994 for a ( then ) record price of $ 200, 000, 000 — an astonishing price considering the Pats had generally been considered a laughing-stock and second rate team, had the worst stadium in the league, and couldn't sell out save for select home games resulting in most games going without television coverage — sports in New England centered on the beloved Bruins, Celtics and Red Sox, not the NFL team orphaned in remote Foxborough, Massachusetts, forty miles outside Boston.

With a continuation of the popularity of Ultimate a possibility of it being introduced into further high schools making a more competitive league in the UK for junior Ultimate players.

With the integration of Organized Baseball, beginning 1946, all leagues simply lost elite players to white leagues, and historians do not consider any Negro league " major " after 1950.

With the impending start of the World Hockey Association ( WHA ) in the fall of 1972, the upstart league had plans to place its New York team, the Raiders, in the then brand-new Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Nassau County.

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

With no major league baseball team existing west of St. Louis, the PCL was unrivaled as the vehicle for American west coast baseball.

With attendance routinely well below the league average, Sports Illustrated ran a story titled " Natural Disaster ," and ESPN anchors mocked the " Green Acres " of empty seats ; in a 2006 interview, Karmanos admitted that " as it turns out, was probably a mistake.

With only eight players available on the roster, the Heat hustled to get their ninth teammate, in order to accommodate league rules ; had Tony Smith not arrived in time for the team, Riley would have literally " signed someone off the street ".

With Wesley, Phills, Rice, Mason and Divac, the Hornets romped through the regular season, finishing with a 51 – 31 record ; Rice had another good season, as he finished sixth in league scoring and earned all-NBA third team honors.

With respect to nighttime assignments, the degree of skywave service and interference is determined by skywave curves ( figs. 1 and 2 of sec. 3.190 of the rules ) giving average skywave values.

With about 2, 500 members in the United States and Canada, Harmony, Inc. uses the same rules in contest that the Barbershop Harmony Society uses.

With the existence of modern independent states, each with its own legislative system, or its own body of ulamas, each country develops and applies its own rules, based on its own interpretation of religious prescriptions.

With the advent of written representations, formal rules about language usage tend to appear also.

With Allen Newell, Simon developed a theory for the simulation of human problem solving behavior using production rules.

With regard to labelling of irradiated food, detailed rules are published at CODEX-STAN – 1 ( 2005 ) labelling of prepacked food.

With these rules in place, the delegates hoped each electors ' second vote would go to a statesman of national character.

With rules 1 and 2, this rule ensures that users can execute only transactions for which they are authorized.

With these rules, Newton could in principle begin to address all of the world ’ s present unsolved mysteries.

With the vote being tied and deadlocked for the first time, the new rules for breaking a tie-breaker came into effect as everyone would reach into a bag and pull out a colored rock.

With the shift from rules to principles and constraints that was found in the 1970s, these construction-specific transformations morphed into general rules ( all the examples just mentioned being instances of NP movement ), which eventually changed into the single general rule of move alpha or Move.

With rules 1 and 2, this rule ensures that users can exercise only permissions for which they are authorized.

With American imports filling as much of the schedule as Canadian content rules ( 60 percent Canadian overall, 50 percent Canadian in prime time ) would allow, Global had effectively become " another CTV.

With the end of the Clone Wars and the formation of the First Galactic Empire, Palpatine rules the Empire with absolute power, with third-in-command Sate Pestage as Grand Vizier to run the Empire day to day.

With the restoration of Charles II racing flourished and he instituted the Newmarket Town Plate in 1664, writing the rules himself:

With these three simple rules, the flock moves in an extremely realistic way, creating complex motion and interaction that would be extremely hard to create otherwise.

With the addition of ' compliance ' mechanisms and financial rules, these issues took up most negotiating time in the Governing Body meeting.

With association football ( or soccer ) being the traditionally popular sport in Europe and American football being a relative newcomer, the rules were changed slightly to encourage a greater element of kicking which was intended to make the game more enjoyable for soccer and rugby fans.

With the written consent of the Commission, Bureau attorneys enforce federal laws related to consumer affairs and rules promulgated by the FTC.

With these methods, students generate original and meaningful sentences to gain a functional knowledge of the rules of grammar.

Jim Messina, President Obama's campaign manager, stated: " With so much at stake, we can't allow for two sets of rules in this election whereby the Republican nominee is the beneficiary of unlimited spending and Democrats unilaterally disarm ".

With their regaining of political dominance through paramilitary violence and suppression of black voting, they passed laws imposing legal racial segregation and a variety of Jim Crow rules that imposed second-class status on blacks.