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	1836 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The fourth convention of 1836 was the culmination of protests of Texian colonists and immigrants against Mexican...
		1836 should be a symbol of pride for the city of...
		Presents a brief background and the text of the document adopted on March 2, 1836, that declared that Texas was a republic independent of Mexico.
	jamestexas.motejames.com /1836 (694 words)

	Pre-1850s in sports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1836 - Believed to be the first running of the Aintree Grand National, won by The Duke, who also wins the race renewal in 1837
		Robert Dover's Olimpick Games are held in the Cotswolds in England, starting some time between 1604 and 1612.
		1625 - Puritans in England pass a law prohibiting the playing of 'unlawful sports'.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1829_in_sports (1851 words)

	1836 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
		October 2 - Charles Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle with biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution.
		October 31 - Bristol riot - see 1836 in the United Kingdom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1836 (744 words)

	Houston's 1836 nickname under fire - Sports - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		I bring up this residue of resentment because the recently christened Houston 1836 of the MLS are under pressure to change their name.
		Apparently, 1836 was a big year for Texans.
		The city of Houston was founded in 1836; the Battle of the Alamo was fought, and Gen. Sam Houston defeated Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's Mexican army at the famous Battle of San Jacinto, which brought about Texas independence from Mexico.
	washingtontimes.com /sports/20060218-120140-1265r.htm (589 words)

	Jews in Sports from P to Y
		A favorite sport of the Rothschild banking family since the 1890s, they helped popularize polo in Austria and France.
		Table tennis was organized as a modern sport in the 1920s.
		She was inducted into the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame in 1992.
	www.jewishsports.com /jewsin/history/p2yhistory.htm (2707 words)

	:: future :: :: sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		At the second stop of the Dew Action Sports Tour last week in Denver, Huston placed second in the park finals, an event in which competitors perform maneuvers - like flipping their boards while in midair - on a course consisting of ramps, rails and other obstacles meant to mimic urban terrain.
		Marcel Desailly, BBC Sport TV 1827 BST: While the overall record is firmly against the French, they have not lost to Italy since 1978 - that’s a run of six matches including that Euro final and two World Cup matches in 1986 and 1998.
		Alan Shearer, BBC Sport TV 1817 BST: France were in suits for their pre-match wander on the pitch but are now in their work clothes warming up on the pitch.
	fiucer.blogsome.com /category/sports (11309 words)

	FOX Sports - USA - Houston 1836 prepares for 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		HOUSTON - The year 1836 has always held place of special meaning in Houston, as it was the year of the city's founding and the year Texas became an independent republic.
		MLS officials and team members helped unveil the name and logo of Houston 1836 before a crowd of approximately 150 excited students at Lanier Middle School, ending weeks of speculation which began when the team's move from San Jose was announced.
		Two members of the 1836 squad were also in attendance for the unveiling.
	msn.foxsports.com /soccer/story/5278076?CMP=OTC-K9B140813162&ATT=2737 (981 words)

	1836 - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		1833 1834 1835 - 1836 - 1837 1838 1839
		January - Book by Maria Monk claims that she was sexually exploited in a Canadian convent
		You can find it there under the keyword 1836 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1836)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1836andaction=history).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/1836 (957 words)

	MLS team renamed Houston 1836 - Boston.com
		The city's new Major League Soccer franchise is called Houston 1836, commemorating the year the city was founded.
		The unusual moniker for the former San Jose Earthquakes echoes the practice of some German clubs, which include the year of their founding in their names: TSV 1860 Munich, Hannover 96, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, FC Schalke 04 and TSV Mainz 05.
		In Houston, 1836 will play its first three seasons in 32,000-seat Robertson Stadium, home of the University of Houston football team.
	www.boston.com /sports/soccer/articles/2006/01/26/mls_team_renamed_houston_1836 (400 words)

	USATODAY.com - MLS' newly named Houston 1836 seeks local support (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		HOUSTON — The city's new Major League Soccer franchise is called Houston 1836, commemorating the year of Houston's founding.
		In Houston, 1836 will play their first three seasons in 32,000-seat Robertson Stadium, home of the University of Houston football team.
		Houston 1836 has mostly American players and none from Mexico, although it does have one from Venezuela and another from El Salvador.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/soccer/mls/2006-01-25-houston-1836_x.htm?csp=34 (748 words)

	SportsFilter \| 1836 Has Been 86'ed
		1836 Has Been 86'ed : The owners of Houston's Major League Soccer franchise learned something unexpected when they chose the name 1836 to honor soccer tradition and a historic year in Texas, which included the city's founding and Texas independence: Some people think the wrong side won that war.
		I thought 1836 was a good name, but as soon as it became evident that it was a sore spot for some Hispanics in the area, including newspaper columnists and other influential leaders, they were right to rethink the name.
		Yeah, but they (And 1860 Munchen) use the years they were founded as sports clubs (the one in Munich was originally a tennis club, pedants).
	www.sportsfilter.com /comments.cfm/6201 (2119 words)

	FOX Sports - USA - The name of the game - Houston 1836 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		A little refresher: 1836 was the year of Houston's founding.
		Adding fuel to the fire was the fact that the new Houston 1836 general manager, Oliver Luck, admitted that the online poll used in selecting the team name indicated that some folks were upset by the possible use of "1836" in the team name.
		From a marketing standpoint, one must admit that Oliver Luck (the new Houston 1836 GM) may have dropped the ball if his aim was to have a stadium full of Mexican-Americans every Saturday at Robertson Field.
	msn.foxsports.com /soccer/story/5329582 (681 words)

	Click2Houston.com - Sports - MLS' 1836 Name Upsets Houston's Hispanic Community
		HOUSTON -- Houston 1836 might soon be known as the name that went down in flames three weeks after Major League Soccer made the announcement.
		Comments from Houston's Hispanic community are causing the soccer club to rethink the name of the city's newest sports team.
		The team's name refers to the founding of Houston, but it is also the same year Texas defeated Mexico in the Battle of San Jacinto and won its independence.
	www.click2houston.com /sports/7085334/detail.html?rss=hou&psp=news (159 words)

	Former Earthquakes are now HOUSTON 1836
		HOUSTON 1836 President Oliver Luck was joined at a press conference at Houston’s Lanier Middle School by MLS Commissioner Don Garber, AEG President & CEO Tim Leiweke, (AEG is investor/operators of the Club), team captain Wade Barrett and goalkeeper Pat Onstad to ‘reveal’ the team’s name, logo and colors.
		“While the name HOUSTON 1836 refers to the year that our City of Houston was founded by brothers Augustus C. and John K. Allen, we also incorporated the star and silhouette of General Sam Houston which clearly are iconic symbols of Houston which will remind fans that this team represents their City,” said Luck.
		AEG is one of the leading sports and entertainment presenters in the world.
	www.mysoccer.com /mls6/hou0125.php (678 words)

	Lisburn Sports
		Long recognised by the country sports community as one of the biggest and best country related events in Ireland, the National Countrysports Fair celebrates its 10th Anniversary in 2005.
		An official printed programme for sports run by the Dromara Club in that year is in the possession of the McEvoy family, Ardtana.
		Memories of the good old days sport were stirred and the Dree (Dromara) Soccer team were easily persuaded to form a Gaelic Football team.
	www.lisburn.com /lisburn_sports.html (1609 words)

	Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Other Sports
		Houston, TX (Sports Network) - The name of Houston's MLS club will be Houston 1836, club officials announced Wednesday.
		The name commemorates the history of the city of Houston, which was founded in 1836.
		"From this day forward, the Houston 1836 logo will be a symbol of a hard working team that reflects the pride, loyalty, heritage, bravery and most of all...winning spirit and 'wildcatter, go-get-em' attitude of Houstonians and all of Texas," said club President Oliver Luck.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /scorecard/othernews.asp?articleID=154771 (341 words)

	:: xcomputerman.com ::
		Sports — April 29, 2006 @ 10:22 am
		The Houston Texans may have committed one of the biggest draft blunders in the history of professional sports by passing up on both Reggie Bush and Vince Young to sign Mario Williams.
		Sports — February 5, 2006 @ 2:15 am
	xcomputerman.com /pages (616 words)

	Houston 1836 joins the Sports Community \| SportsPontiff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The team will be known as Houston 1836 - a reference to the year the city was founded.
		There is a long tradition in European soccer, particularly in Germany of naming teams with dates, usually though referring to the dates the team was founded.
		I think Houston 1836 did a good job, picking a name that is distinctive yet has soccer roots.
	sportspontiff.com /node/10005 (612 words)

	MLSnet.com - News - 01/25/2006
		HOUSTON -- The year 1836 has always held a special meaning in Houston, as it was the year of the city's founding.
		The team's name is centered in the star, with a soccer ball below it and the silhouette of the city's namesake, General Sam Houston, above it.
		During a brief history lesson explaining the name, team president Oliver Luck said that the name Houston 1836 is a perfect choice.
	www.mlsnet.com /MLS/news/mls_news.jsp?ymd=20060125&content_id=51070&vkey=news_mls&fext=.jsp (750 words)

	The Frommers - Sports
		It was very credible and was written by an author that is a known authority on the sport.
		When Hank Greenberg was finishing up his baseball career in 1947 with the Pittsburgh Pirates, he bumped into Jackie Robinson one day.
		Greenberg, who died in 1986, and Povich are among the 14 inaugural inductees to the B'nai B'rith Sports Hall of Fame to be honored at a dinner Thursday night here at the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~frommer/sport.htm (986 words)

	Sports: Soccer
		A constituent of his doesn't like the noise coming from a park near his house, so he wrote a bill banning all use of parks on Sundays and before 8 AM and after 6 PM on weekdays unless unanimous written permission is received from all neighboring houses.
		When asked to respond to the furor he's ignited from sports fans of all ages, he said he doesn't support the bill he's advocating.
		For example, before his contract was upgraded, Troy Perkins was working at a sporting goods store and renting a room at the home of the Georgetown soccer coach.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/01/20/DI2006012001611.html (3531 words)

	Soccer Thoughts: 1836 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Tony Kornheiser, on the other hand, played the football culture confused fellow well, constantly referring to them as "the 1836" and cracking wise about the team's mascot being a calendar.
		I bet this will be a common problem: most Americans are used to teams having a quickly indentifiable identity to refer to them by, instead of the city.
		Luck said there were many great suggestions, but Houston 1836 led the voting.
	incadenza.typepad.com /soccer_thoughts/2006/01/1836.html (614 words)

	South: There’s a Lot More to San Antonio Than the Alamo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		History buffs will say the Alamo, where Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and a group of courageous Texans held off the Mexican Army under General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna until the outnumbered Texans were finally subdued on March 6, 1836.
		Sports fans will chant “Spurs” because of the NBA’s 1999 World Champion San Antonio Spurs, led by David Robinson and Tim Duncan.
		Here’s another fact about San Antonio: The 2000 U.S. Census revealed that the city has grown 28% since the 1990 Census, a rise in population from 935,000 to 1.2 million.
	www.achrnews.com /CDA/ArticleInformation/RegionalNews_Item/1,6084,23178-South,00.html (349 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- MLS team renamed Houston 1836
		HOUSTON – Major League Soccer is naming its newest franchise Houston 1836.
		The name was chosen because the city of Houston was founded in 1836.
		The Earthquakes drew the league's lowest average crowd – 12,526 – during the 2005 regular season at Spartan Stadium on the campus of San Jose State.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/20060125-1611-soc-mls-houston.html (358 words)

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	Sports Book Editors: Sports Book Publishers
		Breakaway Books publishes literary and thoughtful writing on sports — fiction and essays on the athletic experience and the metaphysical side of sports — primarily running, cycling, swimming, and triathlon.
		Sporting books about wingshooting, fly fishing, and hunting dogs.
		Our golf instructional book, Tour Tempo, has gotten as low as #20 on all of Amazon and is the best selling sports and golf book, all this even before it was published in late April.
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	HispanicTips » sports
		In the early years of sports, entertainment, etc., when there were so few Latinos making names for themselves, the community-at-large would take personal pride in those who had made it.
		For almost all of them, soccer is the sport they grew up on.
		One of his ways of bringing the Latino community together is by holding the annual Festival de Futbol, or as gringos know it, soccer.
	hispanictips.com /category/sports (5258 words)

	Peak Vision Sports Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		PeakVision Sports utilizes a patented Dual-Zone lens with a sport-specific color filtration technology that provides precise light management tuned for specific sports.
		If a golfer limits the amount of input through his eyes by using polarized lenses, the wrong color lens or lenses with optical distortion, he is robbing himself of the input needed to hit a good shot.
		PeakVision Sports patented Dual-Zone lens gives golfers grey at the top of the lens for glare protection and distance perception, and amber at the bottom to highlight the contours of the green.
	www.peakvisionsports.ca /peakvision/faq.asp (942 words)

	Houston 1836 Joining the MLS - January 25, 2006 - Sports Logos News at Chris Creamer's Sports Logos Page - ...
		Houston's new Major League Soccer team will be called HOUSTON 1836, commemorating the year that the City was founded.
		I do not own any of the sports logos depicted within this site, therefore do not have the power to grant usage rights to anyone.
		All team and league information, sports logos, and names contained within this site are properties of their respective leagues and/or organizations.
	www.sportslogos.net /article.php?n=4930 (765 words)

	Bay Area Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		In addition to these player identification opportunities, many coaches from top collegiate programs around the United States scouted for their next recruiting class.
		The event also contained leading speakers on topics involving sports psychology and fitness training.
		Greg Dale, a well-known sports psychologist and the Mental Training Coach for Duke University athletics, spoke with the players on motivation and mental strength.
	blogs.mercurynews.com /bay_area_sports/2006/02/soccer_landon_d.html (901 words)

	Brooks Robinson Autographed Sports Memorabilia from Cardboard Memories
		A photo of Brooks Robinson jumping in the air celebrating as they won the 1966 World Series.
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