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	American Football League -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Further, the league championships were evenly divided: five were won by Western Division teams, five by the Eastern Division; and of the original eight teams, all but two won at least one AFL title, and only one did not make the playoffs at some time during the league's ten-year existence.
		The American Football League took advantage of the burgeoning popularity of football by locating teams in major cities that lacked NFL franchises, and by using the growing power of televised football games (bolstered with the help of major network contracts, first with ABC and later with NBC).
		The AFL did not play an All-Star game after its first season in 1960 but did stage All-Star games for the 1961 through 1969 seasons.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/am/american_football_league.htm (2213 words)

	BIGEAST.org: The Official Site of The BIG EAST Conference
		The Louisville at Cincinnati football game scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 22 on ESPNU (Noon, Eastern time) will now also be carried on ESPN in select markets.
		Media and fans can also watch archived footage of players and coaches from basketball and football media days, listen to coaches talk about their teams and future opponents on archived teleconferences, and access live stats for a number of the conference schools and sports.
		Louisville won on the road at Cincinnati, 46-22, as defensive end Elvis Dumervil (19.0 sacks) broke the conference's single-season sack record held by former SU defensive end Dwight Freeney (17.5, 2001).
	bigeast.collegesports.com (747 words)

	Norwich Navigators Eastern League 2002 Champions -MLN Sports Zone - A Minor League News Magazine
		The Norwich Navigators captured the 2002 Eastern League Championship by winning the best-of-five series 3 games to 2 with a 5-0 victory in front of 3,009 fans over the Harrisburg Senators on Sept. 14, at Dodd Stadium.
		Norwich advanced to the Eastern League Championship Series with a 3 games to 0 sweep over the New Haven Ravens in the Northern Division Championship Series.
		The championship round was a rematch of the 1999 series between Norwich and Harrisburg, as the Navigators were defeated three years ago on a Milton Bradley grand slam homer in the bottom of the 9th inning in Game Five at Riverside Stadium.
	www.minorleaguenews.com /baseball/affiliated/aa/eastern/navigators/Articles2002/092302.html (747 words)

	nfl
		These games were a transparent attempt by the NFL to draw viewers and attention away from the competing American Football League's championship games.
		Championship games are played in each conference, and the winners then play each other in the NFL Championship (Super Bowl).
		After expansion in 1967, the NFL split the Eastern Conference into the Capitol and Century Divisions and the Western Conference into Coastal and Central Divisions, and the playoff schedule was expanded from a single game between two teams to a four team tournament, with the four divisional champions participating.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /NFL.html (2390 words)

	NBA Playoff Series Results
		Playoff Fact: Of the three teams winning 55 games for six consecutive seasons (with the Boston Celtics from 1979-80 to 1987-88 and the Los Angeles Lakers from 1984-85 to 1990-91 being the others), the SuperSonics (1992-93 to 1997-98) are the only one not to win a championship.
		Playoff Fact: The 1958 Hawks were the only team to defeat a Bill Russell-led Celtics team in the NBA Championship Series, as Boston won in 11 of their 12 appearances during his career (between 1957 and 1969).
		Playoff Fact: Not only are the Bullets one of only three teams to win the championship in their first season in the league (Philadelphia Warriors 1947, Baltimore Bullets 1948, Minneapolis Lakers 1949), their 1953 team holds the distinction of being the worst team (16-54,.229) ever to qualify for the playoffs.
	members.aol.com /apbrhoops/playoffs.html (2390 words)

	Dave L's All-time American Soccer Team - list and bios
		Between 1921 and 1932 he scored over 300 goals in games played in the American and Eastern professional soccer leagues, and ASL cup games, plus 29 more in U.S. Open Cup games.
		He was a member of the bronze medal Pan American Games team of 1959 and scored a hat trick against Brazil in Chicago in a game the U.S. won 5-3.
		Under his guidance the Nationals won the American League championship in 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1953 and the Lewis Cup in 1949, 1951 and 1952.
	www.sover.net /~spectrum/alltime.html (2390 words)

	Yale University Athletics
		His rowing career began as a freshman at Penn, where he was an All-Ivy rower as a senior when he helped Penn to an Eastern Sprints Championship.
		Harvard won the national championship at the IRA Regatta, while Yale took 15th overall with a finish of 3rd in the 3rd level final.
		In their second consecutive appearance at the NCAA Championships, the Yale women’s crew finished 10th over the weekend at Eagle Creek Reservoir in Indianapolis.
	www.yale.edu /athletics/regattarelease.htm (3580 words)

	National Football League championships
		At the time of the games, CBS-TV advertised them as "playoff games for third place in the NFL", but today the NFL claims they were exhibition games and does not include records of the game participants or results in league playoff statistics.
		After expansion in 1967, the NFL split the Eastern Conference into the Capitol and Century Divisions and the Western Conference into Coastal and Central Divisions, and the playoff schedule was expanded from a single game between two teams to a four team tournament, with the four divisional champions participating.
		Co-obstacles: to reach the AFC championship game, New England and Kansas City each must overcome one of the NFL's co-MVP...
	hallencyclopedia.com /National_Football_League_championships (1713 words)

	VideoHelp.com Forum Archive - who will win the NBA championship?
		And just rule out any Eastern Conference teams now......it will be a long time before an Eastern team wins an NBA championship.
		Not to take anything away from Detroit, I like the Pistons and they deserve the championship but there were several times that Detroit looked like they were trying to dance with a drunk date.
		I heard TV viewing of NBA games is way down, and I believe it.
	www.videohelp.com /forum/archive/t221227.html (1572 words)

	Official Web Site of the Akron Aeros
		That figure represents 50 percent of the total ticket sales revenue from the Eastern League Championship games played in Akron during September.
		The Akron starter toyed with the Sea Dogs for much of the seven innings he worked Saturday night at Canal Park, putting an exclamation point on what proved to be a marvelous Eastern League Championship Series for Aeros' hurlers.
		The Akron Aeros are the 2005 Eastern League Champions and now you can have the same shirt worn by the players during the on-field celebration.
	www.akronaeros.com (345 words)

	Ivy League Rowing
		The Harvard Crimson claimed a pair of Ivy Championships at the Eastern Sprints in Worcester, Mass., as both the lightweight and heavyweight crews from Cambridge were the first of the Ivies across the line in the Grand Finals.
		The Brown Bears did it again, rowing away with their fourth national championship in the last six years (1999, 2000, 2002 and 2004) at the NCAA Women's Rowing Championship on Lake Natoma in Rancho Cordova, Calif., on Sunday.
		After two days of racing at the 2005 NCAA Women's Rowing Championships in Sacramento, Calif., Brown, Harvard, Princeton and Yale are all still in the championship picture, but none of the four seems to have gained an edge on the others.
	www.ivyleaguesports.com /sports/index.asp?intSID=16 (1572 words)

	Cleveland Indians Report
		Congrats to the Akron Aeros on winning their second Eastern League championship in three years after the good guys knocked off Portland 4-1 on Saturday to take the EL Championship series three games to one.
		His arm rates as average." At this level, these kids are so far from the big leagues, that any prospect rankings need to be treated more for their entertainment and discussion value than for any indiciator of future performance.
		Keep in mind that the Sally League is a 16-team circuit so making the Top 20 list is a more difficult feat than making the 8-team Carolina League list.
	cir.blogspot.com (4831 words)

	11 NAMED TO NATIONAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME
		The star forward of the Philippine team that won the 1951 Asian Games championship in New Delhi, Lorenzo was the skipper of Philippine Airlines that captured the MICAA title in 1952-53.
		1959 Chile World Basketball Championship, 8th place; 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games, 9th place; 1956 Melbourne Olympics, 7th; two gold medals in Asian Games (1954 Manila, 1958 Tokyo); and gold, 1960 Manila ABC.
		Born in Betis, Guagua, Pampanga, tall and handsome Gerry grew to about 6-foot-2 to become a star player of Betis Elementary School, Guagua National High and Far Eastern University, where, in his rookie year, the Tamaraws won the UAAP title.
	www.newsflash.org /2002/04/sp/sp001871.htm (538 words)

	11 NAMED TO NATIONAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME
		The star forward of the Philippine team that won the 1951 Asian Games championship in New Delhi, Lorenzo was the skipper of Philippine Airlines that captured the MICAA title in 1952-53.
		1959 Chile World Basketball Championship, 8th place; 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games, 9th place; 1956 Melbourne Olympics, 7th; two gold medals in Asian Games (1954 Manila, 1958 Tokyo); and gold, 1960 Manila ABC.
		Born in Betis, Guagua, Pampanga, tall and handsome Gerry grew to about 6-foot-2 to become a star player of Betis Elementary School, Guagua National High and Far Eastern University, where, in his rookie year, the Tamaraws won the UAAP title.
	www.newsflash.org /2002/04/sp/sp001871.htm (538 words)

	Basketball Home Page: Women's Sports
		The Eagles (21-8) will play for the conference championship for the second straight season after being victorious in 20 consecutive games overall and 28 against MEAC opponents.
		VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.— Coppin State University freshman Tanezia Harden was named the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference’s Rookie of the Week as announced by the league on Monday.
		Coppin State (18-8, 17-0 MEAC) has now won 17 consecutive games, the second longest streak in the nation, and has won 25 straight over a MEAC opponent.
	www.coppin.edu /athletics/sport.asp?sID=sp003 (1110 words)

	PowerinMuscles.com - The nutrition resource for coaches, athletes and trainers in all sports.
		He won two Georgia State Championship titles and was twice named Player of the Year in high school, and at the University of South Carolina he notched 21 goals and 8 assists in 43 games before turning pro.
		Frank is the coach of the Nike Farm Team, which was founded in 1994 to give top distance runners an opportunity to continue developing after college.
		The midfielder has represented the team in nearly 150 games and ranks seventh on its all-time scoring list.
	www.poweringmuscles.com /user_details.php (1110 words)

	Official Site of UNH Athletics - Women's Hockey
		DURHAM, N.H. - The University of New Hampshire women's ice hockey team will be the No. 3 seed in the ECAC Eastern Women's Hockey League Championship Tournament, which begins with quarterfinal action next weekend.
		The Wildcats, unbeaten in five games (2-0-3) and 18-11-5 overall, finished third in the league standings with 26 points on an 11-6-4 record.
		New Hampshire women's hockey is the No.3 seed in the ECAC Eastern Women's Hockey League tourney
	www.unhwildcats.com /hockeyw/20012002/030302.shtml (455 words)

	American Football League - Enpsychlopedia
		Further, the league championships were evenly divided: five were won by Western Division teams, five by the Eastern Division; and of the original eight teams, all but two won at least one AFL title, and only one did not make the playoffs at some time during the league's ten-year existence.
		It featured many outstanding games, such as the classic 1962 double-overtime American Football League championship game between the Dallas Texans and the defending champion Houston Oilers.
		The American Football League took advantage of the burgeoning popularity of football by locating teams in major cities that lacked NFL franchises, and by using the growing power of televised football games (bolstered with the help of major network contracts, first with ABC and later with NBC).
	www.grohol.com /wiki/American_Football_League (455 words)

	American Football League - Enpsychlopedia
		Further, the league championships were evenly divided: five were won by Western Division teams, five by the Eastern Division; and of the original eight teams, all but two won at least one AFL title, and only one did not make the playoffs at some time during the league's ten-year existence.
		It featured many outstanding games, such as the classic 1962 double-overtime American Football League championship game between the Dallas Texans and the defending champion Houston Oilers.
		The American Football League took advantage of the burgeoning popularity of football by locating teams in major cities that lacked NFL franchises, and by using the growing power of televised football games (bolstered with the help of major network contracts, first with ABC and later with NBC).
	www.grohol.com /wiki/American_Football_League (455 words)

	The Year in American Soccer - 1929
		Although the league dispensed with a championship series, the American Cup was revived one last time, with the Providence Gold Bugs defeating the New York National 2-2 and 4-2.
		Eastern Soccer League II The second Eastern Soccer League was launched on October 8, 1928 at the Cornish Arms Hotel in New York City, as a result of the soccer war between the American Soccer League and the United States Football Association.
		Some ASL teams played a series of "round robin" exhibition games with EPSL teams for a couple weeks, until the league merged with the EPSL to begin a new Spring 1930 season (as the Atlantic Coast League) on November 9, 1929.
	www.sover.net /~spectrum/year/1929.html (455 words)

	RugbyOttawa.com :: Home of Rugby in Ottawa
		For Eastern Ontario junior representative rugby, it was another successful season, with the men winning gold and the women taking bronze at the Ontario Summer Games held in Kitchener-Waterloo in July.
		At the end of the nine-game schedule, the top Ottawa club, the Scottish, with a record of 8 and 1, travelled to Montreal to take on the top Quebec club, the Montreal Barbarians, with a record of 6 and 3, to decide the inaugural Eastern Ontario — Quebec Championship.
		The Eastern Ontario Men’s Division 1 summer league was dominated by Kingston, who went through the regular season unchallenged, outscoring their opposition 463 to 82 to finish with a record of 11 and 0.
	www.eorurugby.com /news?49 (455 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page
		They lost to the Dallas Texans in the classic 1962 double-overtime AFL championship game, at the time the longest, and still one of the best professional football championship games ever played.
		The Oilers won the AFL Eastern Division title again in 1967, then became the first professional football team to play in a domed stadium, when they moved into Houston's Astrodome for the 1968 season.
		After winning the first-ever AFL championship over the Los Angeles Chargers in 1960, they repeated over the same team (then in San Diego) in 1961.
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Houston_Oilers (955 words)

	Definition of American Football League Championship
		Further, the league championships were evenly divided: five were won by Western Division teams, five by the Eastern Division; and of the original eight teams, all but two won at least one AFL title, and only one did not make the playoffs at some time during the league's ten-year existence.
		The AFL did not play an All-Star game after its first season in 1960 but did stage All-Star games for the 1961 through 1969 seasons.
		The AFL benefited from having been formed just at a time when professional football was beginning to catch up with (and eventually, in the 1960s, overtake) baseball as the most popular spectator team sport in the United States.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/American_Football_League_Championship (1906 words)

	Eastern conference
		My opinion of the playoff games in the East is that nothing matters until the Conference Championship, where I believe the Pistons and Heat will battle it out, as those two teams are head and shoulders above the rest in the East.
		The Detroit Pistons are headed to play in the NBA Finals for the second straight season after beating the Miami Heat in game seven of the Eastern Conference Finals.
		2005 NBA Playoff Picks - Eastern Conference and Western Conference - 1st Round
	www.aspma.com /term/eastern-conference.html (1906 words)

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		The Pistons defeated the Lakers four games to one in the NBA Finals, winning their first NBA Championship since 1990 and becoming the first Eastern Conference team to win the championship since 1998.
		Ben Wallace, a two-time NBA defensive player of the year and three-time member of the NBA All-Defensive First Team, brought the working-class mind-set to the Pistons and symbolizes the Pistons stifling defense.
		Chauncey Billups was voted the Most Valuable Player of the Finals for his outstanding performance throughout the NBA playoffs, averaging 21 points and 5.2 assists while only committing 2.6 turnovers per game.
	www.gop.gov /Committeecentral/bills/hres679.asp (514 words)

	BIOPROJ.SABR.ORG :: The Baseball Biography Project.
		The last time I saw Pike - which was during the New York's last series of Championship games at Eastern Park - we rode together in the elevated train from the ball ground, and he recalled that famous home run with a great deal of pride.
		There was a board fence about 10 feet high surrounding the park, parallel to the streets and about 10 feet inboard of the sidewalks.
		Assuming a midline location of home plate, the foul lines would have been about 310 feet with dead center about 470 feet..............The pagoda seems to be in right center, more or less on a line drawn from home plate to the Marcy-Rutledge corner.
	www.bioproj.sabr.org /bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=31&pid=11267 (514 words)

	Eastern Football League
		The Eastern Football League have won the U15 Sherrin Metropolitan Junior Championship Grand Final; the first time the league has won at the U15 age group.
		The Eastern Region Coach of the Year night was held at Club Kilsyth on Monday, with Scoresby colts coach Brendan Mason winning one of the major awards.
		The Eastern Football League Trainers Association in conjunction with Sports Medicine Australia are holding a Trainers Re-Accreditation course on Wednesday 23 November, 2005.
	www.efl.org.au (4631 words)

	New York Yankees
		They are in the Eastern Division of the American League and they have the distinction of being the most storied franchises in American sports over the course of their 100+ year history.
		A sudden-death playoff game between the two teams was held to decide who would go on to the pennant, with the game being held at Boston's Fenway Park (because the Red Sox had won more head-to-head games between the two teams that season).
		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 in the NHL twice), to lose a best of 7 series after taking a 3-0 series lead.
	encyclozine.com /New_York_Yankees (5635 words)

	Official Website of the Fort Worth Cats
		When the Fort Worth Cats hoisted the Central Baseball League championship trophy on Sept. 3, 2005, it was the conclusion of one of the most remarkable seasons in Cats' history.
		Fort Worth won both halves of the Central League season, won a franchise-record 60 games, had the Manager of the Year, Executive of the Year, Playing Field of the Year, five All-Star representatives and three post-season All-Stars.
		After coaching stints in the major leagues with the Senators, Rangers and Twins, Twig was a coach with the St. Paul Saints for eight seasons before arriving in Fort Worth to manage the Cats.
	www.fwcats.com (1484 words)

	Eastern conference
		My opinion of the playoff games in the East is that nothing matters until the Conference Championship, where I believe the Pistons and Heat will battle it out, as those two teams are head and shoulders above the rest in the East.
		The Detroit Pistons are headed to play in the NBA Finals for the second straight season after beating the Miami Heat in game seven of the Eastern Conference Finals.
		2005 NBA Playoff Picks - Eastern Conference and Western Conference - 1st Round
	www.aspma.com /term/eastern-conference.html (1484 words)

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