* 1950 – Bruce McNall, American ice hockey team owner

The first serious attempt to land an expansion team for the Phoenix area was mounted by Elyse Doherty and Martin Stone, owner of the Phoenix Firebirds, the city's triple-A minor league baseball team and the top affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.

In the fall of 1993, Jerry Colangelo, majority owner of the Phoenix Suns, the area's NBA franchise, announced he was assembling an ownership group, " Arizona Baseball, Inc .," to apply for a Major League Baseball expansion team.

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 Baltimore Ravens came into existence in 1996 when Art Modell, then owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced his intention to relocate his team from Cleveland to Baltimore.

The " Red Sox " name was chosen by the team owner, John I. Taylor, around, following previous Boston teams that had been known as the " Red Stockings ".

The name Red Sox, chosen by owner John I. Taylor after the 1907 season, refers to the red hose in the team uniform beginning.

Iglehart, the Orioles ' largest shareholder at 32 % and owner of a sizable amount of CBS stock, straightened out his conflict of interest issues on May 25, 1965 by selling his 64, 000 shares in the ball-club to the National Brewing Company, an original team investor which finally had controlling interest at 65 %.

Selig was previously the team owner and team president of the Milwaukee Brewers.

He sold the company for £ 100, 000 at the end of 1971 to British businessman Bernie Ecclestone, Jochen Rindt's former manager and erstwhile owner of the Connaught team.

Brown recently purchased shares of the team owned by the estate of co-founder Austin Knowlton and is now the majority owner of the Bengals franchise.

Despite the potential for a financially strong owner, Stouffer had some non-baseball related financial setbacks and, consequently, the team was cash-poor.

After rejecting an offer from George Steinbrenner and former Indian Al Rosen, Stouffer sold the team in 1972 to a group led by Cleveland Cavaliers and Cleveland Barons owner Nick Mileti.

Only five years later, Mileti's group sold the team for $ 11 million to a syndicate headed by trucking magnate Steve O ' Neill and including former general manager and owner Gabe Paul.

Indians General Manager John Hart and team owner Richard Jacobs managed to turn the team's fortunes around.

Oilman Clint Murchison Jr had been trying to get an NFL expansion team in Dallas ( also Lamar Hunt – who ended up with an AFL franchise ), but George Preston Marshall owner of the Washington Redskins had a monopoly in the south.

Today, the blue star has been extended to not only the Dallas Cowboys, but owner Jerry Jones ' AFL team, the Dallas Desperados that have a similar logo based on the Cowboys.

A fantasy sport ( also known as rotisserie, roto, or owner simulation ) is a game where participants act as owners to build a team that competes against other fantasy owners based on the statistics generated by the real individual players or teams of a professional sport.

The Marlins would be a sub. 500 team for two seasons ( 2006, 2007 ) following the Market Correction, and in a span of three seasons ( 2005 – 2007 ), the team had three different managers ( Jack McKeon, Joe Girardi ( fired after spat with owner Jeffrey Loria ), and Fredi Gonzalez.

* 1877 – Walter Briggs, Sr., American entrepreneur and sports team owner ( d. 1952 )

* 1944 – Pat Bowlen, American sports team owner ( Denver Broncos )

However, when Dodgers owner Walter O ' Malley got wind of these developments, he threatened to scuttle the whole deal by invoking his exclusive rights to operate a major league team in southern California.

The Browns ' on-field feats only amplified their popularity, and the team saw a record-setting average attendance of 57, 000 per game in its first season.

As the popularity of this type of team grew, more and more of them were formed, attending competitions sponsored by many different organizations and companies, each using its own set of rules, regulations and divisions.

Despite Australian rules football's huge popularity in the state of Tasmania, the state does not have a team in the Australian Football League.

By far the most popular of these is beach volleyball, which is played on sand with two people per team, and rivals the main sport in popularity.

In the spring of 1996, with Yeltsin's popularity at a low ebb, Chubais and Yeltsin recruited a team of six leading Russian financiers and media barons ( all oligarchs ) who bankrolled the Yeltsin campaign with $ 3 million and guaranteed coverage on television and in leading newspapers directly serving the president's campaign strategy.

Much of its popularity is attributed to the fact that in the 1971 film Le Mans, Steve McQueen's character, Michael Delaney, drives for the Gulf team.

Despite the team continuing to play well, their popularity continued to fall, with the team finishing twenty-first in the league in attendance for the season.

Though the Stars were relatively still unknown, word of the team spread rapidly, and the immediate success of the team on the ice, as well as Mike Modano's career best season ( 50 goals, 93 points ) helped spur the team's popularity in Dallas.

Norman Osborn decides to assist in completing his plan as Captain America leading his team of Avengers would increase his popularity in his stolen Iron-Man suit.

In the 1950s Abbott and Costello's popularity waned as their place as filmdom's hottest comedy team was taken by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

In September 2005, JSAs popularity led to a spin-off series, JSA: Classified, which tells stories of the team at various points in its existence, as well as spotlighting specific members in solo stories.

The market was flooded, but this was considered acceptable, as there were no professional team sports challenging baseball's popularity.

The Yomiuri Giants are regarded as " The New York Yankees of Japan " due to their widespread popularity, past dominance of the league, and polarizing effect on fans ( baseball fans who feel ambivalent about teams other than their local team often have an intense dislike for the Giants ; on the other hand, the Giants have a large fan base even in areas with a local team ).

By 2001, the team was releasing new beta versions regularly, and by 2005, the maturity of software lead to more widespread reviews, and increased popularity.

The 11 p. m. anchor team of Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann achieved great popularity in the late 1980s and the 1990s ( interrupted by Olbermann's brief move to ESPN2 at that channel's launch ).

The creative team received enhanced popularity following " The Great Darkness Saga ", which ran from # 287 ; # 290 – 294 ; and Annual # 3, featuring a full assault on the United Planets by Darkseid.

The surge in popularity prompted the UFC to beef up its executive team.

During their tournament run, the women's national team established a new level of popularity for the women's game, culminating in a final against China that drew 90, 185 fans, an all-time attendance record for a women's sports event, to a sold-out Rose Bowl.

His popularity soared while he and Spring ( along with Proinsias De Rossa, leader of Democratic Left ) were seen as an effective team.

Despite the antipathy between some supporters of the two " formats ," the same team won both College Bowl and ACF Nationals two times at the height of the original ACF's popularity -- University of Chicago in 1994 and Harvard University in 1995.

His popularity was such that, after he enlisted in the military, so many of his fellow Princeton athletes followed his lead that the school had to cancel its hockey team for the 1917 – 18 season ; all five starting players enlisted in the armed forces.