| Forget the problems at the league stage, if the final and all reserve days were washed out due to rain, the trophy would be shared. |
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| In the past two Sundays I've seen two of the best club league games I've ever enjoyed. |
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| In their past nine matches they have lost seven times, and have scored just 15 times in the league all season. |
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| Milltown juniors enjoyed a 1-9 to 1-5 victory away to Castledermot in the league recently. |
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| After clocking up seven consecutive victories at the start of the league season, they were beaten by Sheffield. |
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| On that summer league floor, James showed off the best of Magic Johnson's towering court vision, and had Jordan's lift to boot. |
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| In La Liga, he scored 16 goals and created many more with his passes and runs off the ball, lifting Real to a league championship. |
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| I would rather go out of the Cup than lose league points under certain circumstances. |
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| Playing for the worst team in the league means that journeymen sometimes get an unexpected trip to the midsummer classic. |
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| There's no doubt that there are some very professional clubs in this league and they are looking forward to playing us and making us welcome. |
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| If league want to continue with the scrums let them watch Union scrums or speak to the players of the 50s or 60s how to pack and play a scrum. |
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| In a devastating four minute spell with a quarter of an hour to go, they threw the league race wide open. |
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| The Spanish league is too close to call, and in the Champions League quarter-finals Real meet Bayern. |
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| If there was a league table in his mind in which politics, the GAA and religion were jockeying for position, they might well land in that order. |
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| Carlow's league campaign has descended from early promise to an abysmal second half display against Wexford last time out. |
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| A petty thief is seen pulling off a cheap scam on a shopkeeper by a major league con-artist who recruits him for a big job. |
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| The Rock u-16 team received a walkover from The Harps in the u-16 league and remain undefeated in their division. |
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| Having a weak team represent the league would be like sending a donkey to race against thoroughbreds. |
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| Larry Berkman played baseball as a walk-on at the University of Texas and coached most of his son's early youth league teams. |
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| They seemed content to sit back and invite Arsenal to come on to them, and the league leaders were not about to spurn the invitation. |
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| Each paddle stroke inches you further upstream towards the Abenaki encampment that should lie perhaps a league ahead. |
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| Finally, I'm anxious to see Hideki Matsui now that he's had a full season to acclimate to major league baseball and the American culture. |
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| The visitors, who have clocked up 77 successive league wins, were given a stern test across all departments. |
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| Well apart from being a bit of fun, does having a fantasy league attached to your competition accrue any benefits to netball and to the national league? |
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| Partick Thistle were another team celebrating after clocking up their third league success of the season with a 3-1 triumph over Stirling Albion at Firhill. |
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| For an anti-defamation league to put out a blacklist is to imply that those blacklisted are in the business of defamation. |
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| Here he celebrates the heyday of Birmingham's minor league team, the barons. |
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| Richardson found other coaching jobs but never in the NBA, he was been a career minor league head coach. |
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| North Yorkshire clubs use the opportunity of a non-league weekend to catch up on the league programme interrupted by pitches being waterlogged or frozen. |
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| Valencia did not look like champions and had arrived demoralised after a first league defeat last Sunday and a 5-1 walloping from Internazionale in Europe. |
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| After comfortably accounting for Haydock away and Newton-le Willows at home they destroyed the hopes of Highfield who themselves had aspirations to become league leaders. |
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| On June 30, 1934, Lou Gehrig of the Yankees would have tied a major league record with three triples in a game but the incomplete game was washed out by rain. |
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| But what does it say about a league where players who have not had enough years to develop the basic skill of a jumper are playing key roles in The Finals? |
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| He said that maybe half of all major league players were on the juice. |
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| Two players who crossed paths with him were not allowed to enter the league in 1966, Connie Hawkins and Roger Brown. |
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| They will be hoping to get their league campaign back on the rails in their next match and it will be back to the training ground for some fine tuning in the interim. |
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| He summed up the season as being competitive yet friendly and with the trio applying to join next year it was evident that the league continued to grow. |
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| A loss against India will mean the champions are out of the championship and their final league match against Bangladesh will be only of academic interest. |
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| During his two seasons Clifford scored over 50 goals and Chesterfield narrowly lost the league in the final weeks by a single point. |
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| Newport's rugby league club are called the Newport Titans and play in the Welsh Conference Premier. |
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| The town is home to Huddersfield Underbank Rangers rugby league club, who play in the Rugby League Conference. |
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| The main sporting arena is John Smith's Stadium, home to both the football team and rugby league side. |
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| Following the split of 1895, Huddersfield became a focus for rugby league and is represented by Huddersfield Giants in the Super League. |
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| The club left its ground at Leeds Road in 1994 and now shares the John Smith's Stadium with the Huddersfield Giants rugby league team. |
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| The England national rugby league team represent England in international rugby league football tournaments. |
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| England played at the World Cup in 1975 coached by Alex Murphy, which was played over several months in both hemispheres on a league basis. |
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| The new official logo was launched on 6 February 2008 on the rugby league magazine programme Boots N' All. |
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| The Great Britain national rugby league team represents Great Britain in rugby league football. |
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| Joe Kinnear was subsequently appointed and led the club to a secure 14th place in the final league table. |
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| The team struggled in the league though and were relegated two seasons later, due in large part to complacency. |
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| Chelsea had their first major success in 1955, when they won the league championship. |
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| This latter feat came within a run of 49 league matches unbeaten from 7 May 2003 to 24 October 2004, a national record. |
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| The league wins and points they have accumulated are the second most in English top flight football. |
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| They play in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. |
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| Leeds United have won three First Division league titles, one FA Cup and one League Cup. |
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| Ipswich regularly featured in the top five of the league and in the UEFA Cup. |
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| The playing surface at Portman Road is highly regarded and has been voted best pitch in the league on a number of occasions. |
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| The Central Coast Stadium was also a newly built rectangular venue built for union, league and soccer. |
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| By the next season, the RFU allocated fixed Saturdays to the league season, removing the clubs' responsibility for scheduling matches. |
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| In 1994 the league structure expanded to include a full rota of home and away matches for the first time. |
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| Wasps did not lead the league standings at the end of the season in any of these years. |
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| Indeed, the formerly London club have not finished top of the league since the playoffs began. |
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| The top two teams receive home advantage, the league leaders hosting the 4th ranked team, and the 2nd place team hosting the 3rd place team. |
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| Tigers hit the top of the league on 28 November and stayed there losing only one match all season. |
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| Tigers' third successive league title was sealed on 17 March 2001 against Newcastle having been 18 points clear as early as 10 March. |
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| Wells' tenure saw Tigers fortunes improve and Leicester finished the regular season top of the league in his only full season. |
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| Wasps have now won six league titles in all, equal with Bath and just one behind Leicester. |
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| Despite European glory, Bath slumped to sixth in the league the next season. |
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| The teams are ranked based on domestic league performance the previous season, and arranged into four tiers of five teams. |
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| In 1926, the club became the first in England to win three successive league titles, a feat only three other clubs have matched. |
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| Before coming home they played some missionary games in Canada, which led to the formation of a rugby league competition in that country. |
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| On New Year's Eve 1933 in Paris, England and Australia play the first game of rugby league in France. |
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| The match between Great Britain and Australia attracted an attendance of 62,256, the highest for a rugby league World Cup match. |
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| Ellery Hanley was appointed coach of the Great Britain national rugby league team for the Ashes series of 1994, which was held in Great Britain. |
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| In their first season they finished bottom of the league but Castleford Tigers were the team relegated. |
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| The Challenge Cup domestic cup in Super League and all levels of rugby league in Britain. |
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| A reserve league was set up in 2016 with a mixture of Super League, Championship and League 1 teams. |
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| In 1933 the Prince of Wales attended Central Park, becoming the first royal to watch a rugby league match. |
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| In another first this was the first rugby league match to be attended by the reigning monarch, King George VI, who presented the trophy. |
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| It was the first time an English club side had beaten a team of Australians at rugby league since the 1978 Kangaroo tour. |
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| Even though Wigan dominated rugby league from 1985 to 1995, it was the only season the club achieved this feat. |
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| Harlequins RL chairman and lifelong Wigan rugby league fan Ian Lenagan bought the club from Dave Whelan promising to start a new era at Wigan. |
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| This involves the club receiving extra funding to provide rugby league related activities to young people throughout North West England. |
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| As Wigan developed into one of the most famous rugby league clubs in the world, Central Park also became one of the most famous. |
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| Formed in 1873, St Helens are one of the 22 original members of the Northern Rugby Football Union and have been league champions on 13 occasions. |
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| The clubs lack of success and disappointing league finishes continued for another seven seasons. |
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| They lost the 1933 Lancashire Cup Final to Warrington, whilst finishing in no competitive position in the league once more. |
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| The St Helens academy has produced some of the finest youngsters, potential stars and internationals the world of rugby league has seen. |
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| The Wolves also beat the Saints in the reverse fixture to do the league double for the first time in 17 years. |
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| Their confrontations on the field during the Leeds v Bradford Northern local derby games are part of rugby league folklore. |
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| The Salford versus Leeds league match was abandoned after 38 minutes when Chris Sanderson of Leeds suffered a fatal injury. |
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| The Golden Boot Award is a rugby league award handed out annually for achievements in rugby league by Rugby League World magazine. |
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| In 1996, the first tier of British rugby league clubs played the inaugural Super League season and changed from a winter to a summer season. |
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| The club went unbeaten for the entire league season, drawing only one match and winning a record equalling 29 games. |
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| In 2013, Huddersfield won the League Leader's Shield, the first time they have finished top of the league in 81 years. |
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| The Irish Elite League is a domestic competition for rugby league teams in Ireland. |
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| Its objective is to promote, encourage and develop the sport of rugby league in Wales. |
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| They finished fifth in the league after four narrow defeats and Kenya won the league. |
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| Rugby league is represented by the Edinburgh Eagles who play in the Rugby League Conference Scotland Division. |
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| Boroughmuir won the league in 2016, and won the playoffs in the same year, beating the University in the final. |
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| The Giants play in the 10 team professional Elite Ice Hockey League which is the top league in Britain. |
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| Although nominally a federal empire and league of equals, in practice the empire was dominated by the largest and most powerful state, Prussia. |
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| They have also won more domestic top tier league titles than any other football club in the world. |
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| The Easterhouse Panthers based in the East End of Glagow are a rugby league team who play in the Rugby League Conference Scotland Division. |
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| The team came fifth in the Celtic League in their first year of existence and topped that league in their second year. |
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| Newport has a Skittle Alley League consisting of over 50 teams who play their league games on a Friday evening. |
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| Aberdeen Warriors rugby league team play in the Scotland Rugby League Conference Division One. |
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| On 29 August 1756, he led Prussian troops across the border of Saxony, one of the small German states in league with Austria. |
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| The Halifax Hurricanes of the National Basketball League of Canada is another team that calls Nova Scotia home, and were 2016 league champions. |
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| Goldsmiths Also stands 7th in the University guide 2014 league table for Art and Design by The Guardian. |
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| In North America, a similar league system exists, but without promotion or relegation. |
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| At all levels including the youth teams the Welsh national team draws players primarily from clubs in the English football league system. |
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| In recent years this trend has reversed and some rugby league players have crossed codes to play union. |
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| Suddenly the call of the professional league was a very strong draw to men who could not claim money for playing union. |
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| Exceptional players lost to the league game included Jim Sullivan of Cardiff, William Absalom of Abercarn and Emlyn Jenkins of Treorchy. |
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| There are currently The Irish rugby league team compete in the European Cup and the Rugby League World Cup. |
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| The Scotland national rugby league team represent Scotland in international rugby league football tournaments. |
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| Both Scotland and Ireland had been developing rugby league in their respective nations for several years. |
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| His performances and leadership inspired and influenced the team to qualify for 2016's major international rugby league competition. |
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| But, unlike in England, rugby league is not one of the ten most played sports in Scotland amongst adults. |
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| The Ireland national rugby league team, known as the Wolfhounds, represents the whole island of Ireland in rugby league football. |
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| Season 2010 saw the league season finished by the first weekend in October, almost on schedule. |
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| The Kuwaiti Premier League is the top league of Kuwaiti football, featuring eighteen teams. |
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| The Kuwaiti Division I Basketball League is the highest professional basketball league in Kuwait. |
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| Kenya is represented by Lucas Onyango as a professional rugby league player who plays with Oldham Roughyeds. |
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| Durham does marginally less well in global rankings than in national league tables. |
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| California has twenty major professional sports league franchises, far more than any other state. |
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| It is ranked as the third best university in the United Kingdom in national league tables, behind Oxbridge. |
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| The St. Louis club is the only nine in the league which gives its patrons the right to see a full game or no pay. |
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| Despite being located in England, the club plays in the Scottish football league system. |
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| Stirling is home to professional league teams in football, rugby and cricket. |
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| Celtic also clinched their sixth successive league title on 2 April 2017, with a record eight league games to spare. |
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| They also had the 12th highest average league attendance out of all the football clubs in Europe. |
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| By the start of the 20th century, Rangers had won two league titles and three Scottish Cups. |
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| During William Wilton's time as match secretary and then team manager, Rangers won 10 league titles. |
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| Smith won three league titles, two Scottish Cups and three League Cups in the 4 years, 126 days of his second spell. |
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| Aberdeen have won four Scottish league titles, seven Scottish Cups and six Scottish League Cups. |
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| In 1991, they lost the last game of the season, and the league title, to Rangers. |
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| The Yankees offered Williams a minor league deal, but he would not accept a nonguaranteed contract. |
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| Other rugby league clubs in West Yorkshire are Batley Bulldogs, Dewsbury Rams, Featherstone Rovers, Hunslet Hawks and Keighley Cougars. |
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| Oswestry Cricket Club compete in the Birmingham and District Premier League which is the oldest cricket league in the country. |
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| They played their football league games at the Aberdare Athletic Ground and were known as the Darians. |
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| Rugby union is played at various levels, from school to senior league level. |
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| Cork's rugby league team, the Cork Bulls, were formed in 2010 and play in the Munster Conference of the Irish Elite League. |
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| The Dublin GAA team plays most of their home league hurling games at Parnell Park. |
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| They have suffered relegation from that league once, but bounced back in 2009, winning WRU Division Two West. |
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| Their highest league position came in 1931 when they finished fifth in the Football League Second Division. |
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| Below that level, individual league articles detail promotion and relegation arrangements. |
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| A series of league defeats once more increased pressure on Davies who finally resigned. |
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| Clashes between league matches and international weekends in November and during the Six Nations Championship remains. |
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| The league was played until April, and then the Celtic Cup was contested amongst the top eight teams. |
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| The Ospreys topped the league table, making it two in a row for Welsh regional sides. |
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| The league went down to the last round with Ulster and Leinster both in contention. |
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| The Blues' home win over Leinster allowed the Ospreys to top the league by a single point and take the title with an away win at Borders. |
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| Prior to 2002, the league was known as the League of Wales, but changed its name as part of a sponsorship deal. |
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| Currently, the full sponsored name of the league is the JD Welsh Premier League. |
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| However, as Rhyl's application to join the league was late, they were placed in the second level of the pyramid system. |
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| Colin Reynolds holds the record for the number of appearances in the league with 516 games played. |
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| In total they have only ever played 20 football league games against each other. |
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| Few gave the Swans, struggling for their lives at the bottom of Division Two, any chance of causing an upset against the league leaders. |
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| Alan Cork was appointed as manager, but was dismissed after leading the club to its lowest league finish for 23 years. |
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| During the season the side set a record of nine consecutive league victories, and, during the same period, seven consecutive clean sheets. |
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| Swansea finished the season in ninth place in the Premier League, improving upon the league standing achieved in the previous season. |
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| The team play in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. |
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| The club reformed shortly afterwards and entered the English football league system at a much lower level. |
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| The team finished their first season back in the Conference Premier league in ninth place. |
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| Sheridan resigned on 13 January 2016 after just 14 league games to take up the manager's job at Oldham Athletic. |
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| The club then remained in the Combination league until 1905, by which time they had managed to win the league four times. |
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| After Wrexham started the next season with just 3 wins from 13 league games, Dixie McNeil resigned before his inevitable sacking. |
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| He left to join Cardiff City where he stayed until 1966, which marked the end of his league career. |
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| Toshack made his debut 3 days later on the 14th in the goalless league draw with Coventry City at Anfield. |
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| He was replaced by Graeme Souness but the change of manager was not enough to prevent the league title from slipping away from Anfield. |
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| Liverpool themselves achieved their best league finish since 1991, as they finished fourth in the Premier League. |
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| He spent much time with his mother's parents and playing football and rugby league on the roads outside their house in Pentrebane. |
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| On 6 March 2011, Giggs surpassed the Manchester United league appearance record of Bobby Charlton by playing his 607th game against Liverpool. |
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| Giggs is the son of former rugby union and rugby league player and former Wales international Danny Wilson. |
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| They played in League 1, the third tier of rugby league in the United Kingdom. |
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| They were accepted into Championship One the third tier of British rugby league for the 2010 season. |
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| Leighton Samuel was approached by the RFL to form a rugby league club and join the professional ranks. |
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| The Rugby Football League is the governing body for professional rugby league in England. |
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| The name Rugby Football League previously also referred to the main league competition run by the organisation. |
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| Coventry again deferred their membership in 2014, eventually joining the league for the 2015 season. |
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| In July 1907 a new Merthyr Tydfil league team joined the Northern Rugby Union. |
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| It was therefore believed the WRU did not suspended or punish Merthyr Alexandria to prevent the squad converting to the newly formed league team. |
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| A Welsh League XIII was formed to face the Australia national rugby league team on their first tour. |
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| Before 2006, the company had sponsored the rugby union and rugby league cup competitions under the Powergen brand. |
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| Amatori Catania have competed in the top Italian national rugby union league called National Championship of Excellence. |
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| After that, the Cismonte was ruled as a league of comuni and churches, after the Italian experience. |
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| Rugby league in France is mostly played and followed in the South of France, in cities such as Perpignan and Toulouse. |
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| The Elite One Championship is the professional competition for rugby league clubs in France. |
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| Before the official foundation of the league in 1356, the word Hanse did not occur in the Baltic language. |
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| Although such alliances formed throughout the Holy Roman Empire, the league never became a closely managed formal organisation. |
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| Many locals, merchant and noble alike, envied the power of the league and tried to diminish it. |
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| In 1597, Queen Elizabeth I of England expelled the league from London, and the Steelyard closed the following year. |
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| At the start of the 16th century, the league found itself in a weaker position than it had known for many years. |
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| However the league proved unable to prevent the growing mercantile competition, and so a long decline commenced. |
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| By the late 16th century, the league had imploded and could no longer deal with its own internal struggles. |
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| In 1356, during a Hanseatic meeting in preparation of the first Tagfahrt, the league confirmed this statute. |
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| This league is open to all former Hanseatic League members and cities that once hosted a Hanseatic kontor. |
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| The Hanseatic league monopolised trade of the Northern Isles during this era. |
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| The duck is also the nickname of the University of Oregon sports teams as well as the Long Island Ducks minor league baseball team. |
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| Rugby league team Exeter Centurions play in the South West Division of the Rugby League Conference. |
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| They joined the Football League on the creation of the Third Division in 1920, and have remained in the league ever since. |
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| The Pirates Amateurs are part of the Cornish Pirates and play in the lower levels of the league system. |
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| The Isles of Scilly Football League is the official football league for the Isles of Scilly. |
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| The League is attempting to get into the Guinness World Records for the smallest league in the world. |
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| Occasionally, a combined Scilly Isles team play a team Newlyn Non Athletico, a team at level 14 of the English football league system. |
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| In 2014, with the launch of Pro Kabaddi League a city based franchise league in India, kabaddi took the region with storm. |
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| Dual rugby and league international and former boxer Sonny Bill Williams is a global ambassador for Adidas. |
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| Beckham had made 265 Premier league appearances for United and scored 61 goals. |
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| He was sent off shortly afterwards, this time in a league match for Real Madrid against Valencia. |
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| Beckham scored his first league goal with the Galaxy on 3 April against the San Jose Earthquakes in the ninth minute. |
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| These CMA's are used in most professional leagues and are altered or weighted depending on the league the rider gained the CMA in. |
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| The majority of countries supplement the league system with one or more cup competitions. |
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| The Allsvenskan has seven teams and before the introduction of the Elitserien in 1982 was the top flight speedway league in Sweden. |
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| The league title eluded Ryde during this period although a top five final position was achieved each season. |
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| The league has also been well represented in both national and regional cup competitions. |
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| The club remained in the Hampshire league until 1986 when they joined the Wessex League on its formation. |
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| Born in Sydney in January 1958, Gould played junior rugby league with Wentworthville Leagues. |
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| He is considered controversial within rugby league fan circles for his blunt opinions about the playing and administration of the game. |
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| The Hamburg Freezers represented Hamburg until 2016 in the DEL, the premier ice hockey league in Germany. |
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| Many Swiss also follow ice hockey and support one of the 12 teams of the National League, which is the most attended league in Europe. |
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| The Greek Super League is the highest professional football league in the country, comprising sixteen teams. |
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| Sport Lisboa e Benfica, commonly known as just Benfica, has won 36 league titles in addition to two European Cups. |
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| On land, the league is most commonly defined as three miles, though the length of a mile could vary from place to place and depending on the era. |
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| As used in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, a league is four kilometres. |
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| So defined, a league of land would encompass a square that is one Spanish league on each side. |
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| The Mexican professional baseball league is named the Liga Mexicana de Beisbol. |
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| Minor league baseball, football, basketball, ice hockey, soccer and indoor football teams are based in Florida. |
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| The Fiji Bati rugby league team also gather in a huddle and perform the noqu masu before each match. |
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| In association football Florence is represented by ACF Fiorentina, which plays in Serie A, the top league of Italian league system. |
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| After the Peasants' War the Protestants organized themselves into a defensive league to protect themselves from Emperor Charles. |
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| Rugby league in Jamaica is growing with universities and high schools taking up the sport. |
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| The TT Pro League is the country's primary football competition and is the top level of the Trinidad and Tobago football league system. |
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| The Pro League serves as a league for professional football clubs in Trinidad and Tobago. |
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| Calcutta Football League, which was started in 1898, is the oldest football league in Asia. |
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| Zimbabwean professional rugby league players currently playing overseas are Masimbaashe Motongo and Judah Mazive. |
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| On the morning of 2 June 2010, professional rugby league player and farmer Garry Purdham was shot dead at a farm in the Gosforth area. |
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| Warrington Wolves and the Widnes Vikings are the premier Rugby league teams in Cheshire and play in the Super League. |
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| Halifax is home to the professional rugby league academy, Halifax Elite Rugby Academy, which has a partnership with Huddersfield and Castleford. |
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| Eight years after the club was elected to the league, City won the FA Cup and recorded the highest league position in its history. |
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| There is a perception that league is the code of rugby played in the north, whilst union is the code played in the south. |
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| Herodotus has fixed the measure of the schene, in Lower Egypt, at four miles, or a league and a quarter. |
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| They want regular emails, not league tables, and the right to call a teacher, not a new superhead. |
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| For the Blues, though, it means the outcome will have far less of abearing on the final league table. |
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| Major and minor league ballparks are even adjusting their menus to meet the needs of more health conscious fans. |
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| Currently, more than 50 percent of major league ballparks feature a corporate name. |
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| Both Bani Yas, who have 20 points, and Emirates, earned promotion to the elite professional league this season. |
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| Harris used to coach at Nicholls State in Louisiana and guided the Orlando Wahoos of the Woman's Professional Fastpitch league last spring. |
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| Players around the league will swear special t-shirts during their warmups for tonight's game to promote Cardiac Risk in the Young. |
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| Rah Ahan, based in the Rey district of Tehran, finished 15th in the 18-team league last season before Daei was hired. |
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| The SRU oversees the national league system, known as the Scottish League Championship. |
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| Participating teams enter the tournament at different stages depending on their league ranking. |
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| A season later, Eyemouth United reached the quarter final stage of the tournament after defeating two higher league clubs. |
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| Celtic established itself within Scottish football, winning six successive league titles during the first decade of the 20th century. |
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| He spent over five years in this role, although due to the Second World War no official competitive league football took place during this time. |
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| The Scottish Football League and Scottish Cup were suspended and in their place regional league competitions were set up. |
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| He went on to lead Celtic to two consecutive league titles and a League Cup, but the team's performances in European competition were poor. |
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| Felipe Contepomi finish as league top scorer for Leinster, the year they went on to win the Heineken Cup. |
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| If the teams don't cap player salaries, the league won't survive. |
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| Defensive clownery by the Mets at certain points of the game ultimately cost the 22-year-old Niese his first major league win in eight months. |
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| We have contracted an inviolable amity, peace, and league with the aforesaid queen. |
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| Liverpool's efforts thereafter had an air of desperation as their dismal 2012 league form continued. |
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| The conclusion itself turned into the kind of dunkfest for bench players usually reserved for rec league blowouts. |
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| Now, understand, you would probably go in the farm league before going up in the majors. |
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| The Yankees entered the farm league business in 1929 when they purchased Chambersburg in the Class D Blue Ridge League. |
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| Stoke pressed gamely but clear chances were few and Fulham held on to record a first away league win in 16 months. |
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| The FA Cup and The Football League were the first cup and league competitions respectively. |
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| Each of the Home Nations has its own football association, national team and league system. |
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| The English top division, the Premier League, is the most watched football league in the world. |
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| There is a professional league championship in which clubs representing 17 English counties and 1 Welsh county compete. |
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| Rugby league originated in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire in 1895 and is generally played in Northern England. |
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| Super League is the highest level of professional rugby league in the UK and Europe. |
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| The Isles of Scilly feature what is reportedly the smallest football league in the world, the Isles of Scilly Football League. |
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| The Isle of Wight is the 39th official county in English cricket, and the Isle of Wight Cricket Board organises a league of local clubs. |
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| Players from some of the region's minor league teams have gone on to influence football on the world stage. |
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| York International 9s is a rugby league nines tournament which takes place in York each year. |
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| In 2012, a new football league was formed called the Mercian Regional Football League. |
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| The number of international players in the National Basketball Association has increased 10 percent from one year ago, the league said on Monday. |
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| However, in recent years, the city of Virginia Beach has proposed a new arena designed to lure a major league franchise. |
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| The first football league in the world was established in 1888 by Aston Villa director William McGregor. |
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| Tanya Arnold, presents the BBC rugby league programme Super League Show, broadcast nationwide from Leeds. |
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| Sheffield Eagles RLFC are the city's professional Rugby league team who play their matches at Owlerton Stadium. |
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| Their two football grounds, on opposite sides of the River Trent, are noted for geographically being the closest in English league football. |
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| They are one of the few English league clubs to have been champions of all four tiers of the English professional league. |
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| Promotion to the Football League First Division was achieved in 1969, and County were champions of the English league three years later. |
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| Rugby league team Derby City RLFC were formed in 1990 and compete in the Midlands Premier Division of the National Rugby League Conference. |
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| The top football league in Malta is called the Maltese Premier League, and consists of 12 teams. |
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| In major league stadiums the press box is usually located between the first and second decks in the loge level. |
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| The current sponsor Sky Bet commissioned a suite of trophies for the league from silversmith Thomas Lyte. |
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| This logic has underpinned the controversial league tables of school performance. |
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| Cambridge has been highly ranked by most international and UK league tables. |
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| In Bergen, Norway and Novgorod, Russia the league had factories and middlemen. |
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| The teams finishing at the top of a country's league may be eligible also to play in international club competitions in the following season. |
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| Countries usually stage seasonal limited overs competitions in both knockout and league format. |
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| Rugby league was formed as an administrative break from the English union before changing its laws, becoming a code in its own right. |
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| Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field. |
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| Rugby league then went on to displace rugby union as the primary football code in New South Wales and Queensland. |
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| For information on a forward's role in the scrum see rugby league scrummage. |
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| The Rugby League World Cup is the highest form of representative rugby league and currently features 14 teams. |
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