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	Television Commercial Violence During Nonviolent Programming: The 1998 Major League Baseball Playoffs -- Anderson 106 (4): 46 -- Pediatrics
		Commercials during the 1998 major league playoffs were similar in violent content, compared with 1996.
		Concerns regarding commercial content were noted in my study of the 1996 major league baseball playoffs.
		To identify the frequency of violent commercials during the major league baseball playoffs in 1998 and to compare it with
	pediatrics.aappublications.org /cgi/content/full/106/4/e46 (1752 words)

	@ugusta Headlines: Braves kill Cardinals 14-0, October 15, 1996
		Facing an embarrassing early exit in the series, the defending world champions exploded with a League Championship-record 22 hits off of five Cardinal pitchers.
		Jackson, who has pitched in the League Championships with five teams, came on and promptly was tagged by Ryan Klesko for RBI single.
		The Braves raised their batting average in the series from.213 to.296 after scoring only 12 runs in the first four games.
	chronicle.augusta.com /headlines/101596/braves.html (959 words)

	SI.com - Preview
		The lone National League team to accomplish the feat was the 1996 Atlanta Braves, who won three in a row over the St. Louis Cardinals to advance to the World Series.
		MIAMI (Ticker) -- The Chicago Cubs can advance to the World Series for the first time in 58 years on Sunday when they play Game Five of the National League Championship Series at Pro Player Stadium.
		Aramis Ramirez had a pair of homers and drove in an NLCS record-tying six runs for Chicago, which last was this close to reaching the World Series in 1984, when it blew a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five NLCS to the San Diego Padres.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/mlb/previews/2003/10/12/6072_preview.html (470 words)

	NoticiasWire.com
		FOX began its successful association with Major League Baseball in 1996, and will continue to hold telecast rights for select games of the Division Series and all the League Championship Series and World Series through the 2006 MLB campaign.
		October 18, American League Championship Series, Game 2, 8:00 p.m.
		October 20, American League Championship Series, Game 3, 4:00 p.m.
	www.noticiaswire.com /sports/foxsportsworld_baseball/print.html (601 words)

	FOXSports.com - MLB- 2005 MLB postseason television schedule
		It was the highest-rated World Series since 1999 and the highest-rated on FOX since 1996.
		Exclusive live coverage of the National League Championship Series begins with a prime time split-national telecast of NLCS Game 1 and ALCS Game 2 on Wednesday, October 12 (8:00 PM ET).
		As the exclusive network television home of Major League Baseball's Division Series, American League and National League Championship Series and World Series, FOX Sports announced its 2005 postseason schedule.
	msn.foxsports.com /mlb/story/4910786 (801 words)

	April 1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		2002- The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the only nation in the world to do so.
		1996 - University of Kentucky team wins NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.
		1983 - Sean Taylor, National Football League safety
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/April_1 (801 words)

	World War 1 and 2 - Jason Marquis
		The left-hander was drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the first round of the 1996 free agent draft after having graduated from Tottenville High School.
		Marquis grew up in Staten Island, New York's Tottenville neighborhood, where he played Little League Baseball on a team that made it to the Little League World Series in 1991.
		He returned as a starter in 2004 and posted a career-best 15-9 record, with a 3.71 earned run average and a career-high 138 strikeouts, for the National League champions.
	www.worldwardiary.com /history/Jason_Marquis (203 words)

	USATODAY.com - Taking a closer look at the Cardinals-Astros
		The Cardinals are in the NLCS for the second time in three years, the third time in five years and the fourth time (1996, 2000, 2002, 2004) under manager Tony La Russa, but each trip has ended with a defeat.
		In the Division Series, Biggio hit.400 (8-for-20) with a homer and four RBI, going 6-for-9 in the final two games, and Bagwell was 7-for-22 (.318) with two homers and five RBI, his two-run homer in the top of the seventh inning igniting Monday night's 12-3 Game 5 blowout of the Braves.
		Lance Berkman hit.409 with a homer and three RBI in the Division Series and is as important as anyone in the Astros lineup.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/baseball/playoffs/2004-10-13-nlcs-breakdown_x.htm (2121 words)

	A Cyber Bookie - National League Championship Series Preview - Houston vs. St. Louis
		The Cardinals were on the verge of getting to the World Series in 1996, but had one of the worst collapses in major league history in that NLCS against Atlanta.
		The Cardinals are coming off a Division Series victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in four games, while Houston was pushed to the limit before disposing of the Atlanta Braves, 12-3, Monday night for its first playoff series triumph in the 43-year history of the franchise.
		The last time the Cardinals were in the World Series, they dropped the final two contests, losing to the Minnesota Twins in seven games.
	www.acyberbookie.com /news/69201.html (571 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports > Padres -- Chapter 6: Reaching the promised land
		In 1998, Qualcomm Stadium became the only venue to hold a Super Bowl and a World Series in the same year.
		But after defeating Houston and Atlanta en route to their second NL pennant, the Padres were swept by the Yankees in the World Series.
		And there was the "ball call" on Mark Langston in Game 1 of the 1998 World Series that many Padres believed changed the complexion of not only the game but the World Series.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/padres/20030926-9999_mz1s26qmem.html (571 words)

	Center for Sports Parenting - Expert Panel
		During her tenure, the U.S. Women's National Team won gold medals at the 1996 Olympic Games, the 1998 Goodwill Games and the 1999 World Cup.
		He is nationally recognized as a leading authority in the area of youth strength training and has lectured across the country to schools and sports medicine organizations.
		She also served as the national rep for the JC/CC Division of the Board of Directors for the WBCA, National Chair of the Kodak All-American Committee, National Chair of the IKON Coach of the Year Committee, Florida Southern Conference Chair of Women's Basketball and other WBCA Regional and District committees.
	www.sportsparenting.org /csp/csp_xpanel.cfm (571 words)

	Shea Stadium BaseballLibrary.com
		In 1996, National League umps will toss 101 players, a decrease of 11 tosses from 1995; American League umps will eject 75 during the year, down from 93 in 1995.
		The Mets defeat the Cubs, 2—1, in a night game, marking the first time in history that American and National League games are played in the same park on the same day.
		He also becomes the first pitcher to win no-hitters in both leagues, and Gus Triandos becomes the first C to catch a no-hitter in each league.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/S/Shea_Stadium.stm (2258 words)

	USATODAY.com - Taking a closer look at the Cardinals-Astros
		The Cardinals are in the NLCS for the second time in three years, the third time in five years and the fourth time (1996, 2000, 2002, 2004) under manager Tony La Russa, but each trip has ended with a defeat.
		In the Division Series, Biggio hit.400 (8-for-20) with a homer and four RBI, going 6-for-9 in the final two games, and Bagwell was 7-for-22 (.318) with two homers and five RBI, his two-run homer in the top of the seventh inning igniting Monday night's 12-3 Game 5 blowout of the Braves.
		Lance Berkman hit.409 with a homer and three RBI in the Division Series and is as important as anyone in the Astros lineup.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/baseball/playoffs/2004-10-13-nlcs-breakdown_x.htm (2114 words)

	USATODAY.com - Can't beat spirit of St. Louis
		They have reached the National League Championship Series three times since 1996 but have failed to advance to their first World Series since 1987.
		Cardinal fans, at the urging of Jack Buck, who wanted to diffuse a potentially ugly situation, even greeted the umpires with cheers the day after home run hero Mark McGwire was thrown out of a game in the early innings of a 1998 game, his record-setting season.
		Armed with the best record in baseball and a murderers' row lineup that led the league in hitting and was second in home runs, they have raised expectations from the cornfields of Iowa to the horse farms of Kentucky with a team that posted the fifth-best record in the storied franchise's 112-year history.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/baseball/nl/cardinals/2004-10-03-cover-fans_x.htm (1602 words)

	AAA Cyber Bookie - National League Championship Series Preview - Houston vs. St. Louis
		The Cardinals were on the verge of getting to the World Series in 1996, but had one of the worst collapses in major league history in that NLCS against Atlanta.
		The Cardinals are coming off a Division Series victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in four games, while Houston was pushed to the limit before disposing of the Atlanta Braves, 12-3, Monday night for its first playoff series triumph in the 43-year history of the franchise.
		The last time the Cardinals were in the World Series, they dropped the final two contests, losing to the Minnesota Twins in seven games.
	www.aaacyberbookie.com /news/69201.html (645 words)

	Reporter OnLine Local/Area Sports: July 1996 Archives
		....Darwin, 40, is the only member of Houston's 1986 National League Championship Series team still active in the majors.
		....Gustafson, who coached Texas to national championships in 1975 and 1983 while building a record of 1,466-377-2, submitted a letter announcing his retirement to UT officials today.
		He was second in the league with six shorthanded goals.
	www.insidecowboys.com /sports/spt.jul.html (7904 words)

	New York Yankees - Pictures
		The intention of Johnson and the American League had been to place a team in New York City, but their efforts had been stymied by the political connections that owners of the National League New York Giants had with Tammany Hall.
		American League pennants won (39): 1921, 1922, 1923, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003.
		At the end of the 1900 season, the American League re-organized and, with its president Ban Johnson as the driving force, decided to assert itself as a new major league.
	www.greatestinfo.org /New_York_Yankees (7904 words)

	Mid
		at the 2003 Rugby World Cup, started against France after appearing as a substitute against Fiji and Japan also in 2003, appeared in the RWC Repechage Series with Spain, in the Churchill Cup against England, and in the Pan American Championships against Argentina played for the USA ‘A’ against Russia in July 2003...
		a member of OMBAC’s 1996 national championship team, Dave signed with Llanelli in the fall of 1997 and has played professionally in Europe since...
		represented the Northeast at the National All-Star Championship in 2001, 2002, and 2003, and was named to the National Team player pool after 2002 championship joined Northeast power Old Blue in 1999 and helped the side to the USA Rugby Super League semifinals in 2002...
	www.goffonrugby.com /natteams/usamnt.htm (7904 words)

	1996 World Series
		The Braves outscored the St. Louis Cardinals in the last three games of the National League Championship Series, 32-1, and they continued that roll with a 12-1 pasting of the Yankees in the Series opener.
		With Yankeee closer John Wetteland on the mound, the Braves scored once and placed the potential tying run on second base, but Mark Lemke fouled out to end the Series, and the Bronx Bombers were World Series Champions once again.
		A Fred McGriff error led to another run, and John Wetteland finished up for Atlanta to even the Series at two games apiece.
	www.pontel.com /WS1996.html (360 words)

	PS Wiki Encyclopedia
		In the 2004 American League Championship Series against the Red Sox, the Yankees became the first team in professional baseball history, and only the third team in North American pro sports history (It happened with the NHL twice), to lose a best of 7 series after taking a 3-0 series lead.
		Previously a minor league (known as the Western League until 1899), the American League carried over five of its previous locations and added three more on the East Coast, including one in Baltimore, Maryland, which had lost its National League team when that league contracted the year before.
		The intention of Johnson and the American League had been to place a team in New York City, but their efforts had been stymied by the political connections that owners of the National League New York Giants had with Tammany Hall.
	70.84.119.226 /~puresear/PSWiki/index.php?title=New_York_Yankees (360 words)

	NFC Championship Game DigiMelon.COM
		When the American Football League and NFL merged in 1970, most of the NFL teams became part of the National Football Conference of the NFL, and the championship game was named the NFC Championship Game with the winner advancing to face the winner of the AFC Championship Game in the Super Bowl.
		NFC Championship Game is an American football game played every year to determine the champion of the National Football Conference of the National Football League.
		At the end of each football season, a series of playoff games involving the top six teams in the NFC are conducted, consisting of the four division champions and two wild card teams.
	www.digimelon.com /NFC_Championship/index.html (146 words)

	hockeyfights.com forums - USA Hockey Names Pleau GM for 2004 World Cup
		USA Hockey enjoyed one of its greatest-ever on-ice accomplishments in 1996 when the United States captured the inaugural World Cup of Hockey championship by defeating rival Canada, 5-2, in Montreal during the final game of a best-of-three series.
		The World Cup of Hockey 2004 is a joint effort of the National Hockey League Players' Association and the NHL, in cooperation with the IIHF.
		As a forward, he skated on the 1968 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team in Grenoble, France, and with the 1969 U.S. Men's National Team at the IIHF World Championship.
	www.hockeyfights.com /forums/showthread.php?p=231750 (146 words)

	Golden Bears Face Oklahoma in Fourth Consecutive College World Series Appearance :: California faces Sooners for the first time since the 2000 WCWS when OU defeated the Bears, 2-1, en route to the 2000 national championship.
		Best Pac-10 Mark Since 1996: The Bears, who went 12-9 in league action, finished above.500 in the cut-throat Pac-10 Conference for the first since 1996 when Cal went 14-12 en route to a fifth-place tie at the College World Series.
		California faces Sooners for the first time since the 2000 WCWS when OU defeated the Bears, 2-1, en route to the 2000 national championship.
		In April, Scott was invited by Team USA to try out for the U.S. National team this summer in Chula Vista, Calif. In addition, her clutch hitting in two upset wins over then-No. 1 Arizona earned her Pac-10 Player of the Week April 22.
	www.fansonly.com /schools/cal/sports/w-softbl/spec-rel/052202aaa.html (146 words)

	European Football Championship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The UEFA European Championship is the main national football competition of the UEFA nations.
		The competing teams are chosen by a series of qualifying games: in 1960 and 1964 through home and away play-offs; from 1968 through qualifying leagues and also play-off games.
		Held every four years since 1960, it was originally called the European Nations Cup, changing to the name European Football Championship in 1968.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Football_Championship (306 words)

	greg gumbel personal appearances, sportscasters,representation, Greg Gumbel, sports commentators
		As host, he has covered the NFL and college football, Major League Baseball, the Daytona 500, the World Figure Skating Championships, the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
		His play-by-play resume includes the NFL, the NBA and college basketball, Major League Baseball and the College World Series Championship, as well as having been the voice at various times for the NY Yankees, the NY Knicks, the Philadelphia 76ers, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Seattle Mariners.
		Greg has been a member of the March of Dimes National Board of Trustees since 1996 and he is serving his second 5-year term in that capacity.
	www.sportsstarsusa.com /sportscasters/gumbel_greg.html (306 words)

	Amazon.com: Sheryl Swoopes: All-Star Basketball Player (Burby, Liza N. Making Their Mark.): Books: Liza N. Burby
		This juvenile biography of "Sheryl Swoopes: All-Star Basketball Player" was published in 1997 and ends with her joining the professional "American Basketball League." Of course, it is as a member Houston Comets that Swoopes has been on three championship teams for the Women's National Basketball Association.
		Discusses the life and achievements of the record-breaking basketball star whose team won a gold medal in the 1996 Olympic Games.
		"Sheryl Swoopes: All-Star Basketball Player" is part of the Making Their Mark: Women In Sports series.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0823950697?v=glance (669 words)

	ESPN.com - Russians regroup on other side of the red line
		In his five-part series on the state of Russian hockey published in the Montreal Gazette in March 1999, Todd reported that the Russian Hockey League had been on the verge of collapse, with the decline of the ruble's value having a devastating effect.
		Meanwhile, the Russian Ice Hockey Federation was hurting for money, and it showed: the national team took third in the World Championship in 1991, and won the gold in 1993; in the years since, the Russians have failed to medal.
		In 1996, the Russian Hockey League replaced the old Inter-State Hockey League; in 1999, the Professional Hockey League, composed of the Super League and the second-division First (or Top) League, replaced the RHL.
	sports.espn.go.com /oly/winter02/hockey/story?id=1326249 (7325 words)

	Articles - 2004 in sports
		October 10: Ken Caminiti, 41, baseball player; National League Most Valuable Player in 1996.
		January 5 - LSU and USC are awarded a share of the 2003 Division I-A national championship.
		June 27 College World Series: Cal State Fullerton wins the NCAA College World Series, defeating Texas 3-2 to win the best-of-three championship series 2-0.
	www.beatlesa.com /articles/2004_in_sports (5327 words)

	Fox Sports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was formed in 1994 with Fox's acquisition of broadcast rights to National Football League games; other properties have included the National Hockey League (1994-1999), Major League Baseball (1996-present), World League Football (now NFL Europe) (1997-2005), and NASCAR (2001-present).
		Beginning in 2007, Fox Sports will televise three of the annual Bowl Championship Series games and become the exclusive home of the Daytona 500.
		Fox Sports is a division of the Fox Broadcasting Company (part of News Corporation).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fox_Sports (142 words)

	Fox Sports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was formed in 1994 with Fox's acquisition of broadcast rights to National Football League games; other properties have included the National Hockey League (1994-1999), Major League Baseball (1996-present), World League Football (now NFL Europe) (1997-2005), and NASCAR (2001-present).
		Beginning in 2007, Fox Sports will televise three of the annual Bowl Championship Series games and become the exclusive home of the Daytona 500.
		Fox Sports is a division of the Fox Broadcasting Company (part of News Corporation).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fox_Sports (142 words)

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