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University of California, Santa Barbara
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The University of California, Santa Barbara is a public research university and one of the 10 campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a 1, 022-acre site near Goleta, California, tracing its roots back to 1891 as an independent teachers college, UCSB joined the University of California system in 1944 and is the third-oldest general-education campus in the system. UCSB is one of Americas Public Ivy universities, which recognizes top public universities in the United States. The university is a doctoral university and is organized into five colleges. UCSB was ranked 37th among National Universities, 8th among U. S. public universities, the university was also ranked 48th worldwide for 2016-17 by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 42nd worldwide by the Academic Ranking of World Universities in 2016. UC Santa Barbara is a high activity research university with twelve national research centers. UCSB was the No.3 host on the ARPAnet and was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1995, the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos compete in the Big West Conference of the NCAA Division I. The Gauchos have won NCAA national championships in soccer and mens water polo. UCSB traces its origins back to the Anna Blake School which was founded in 1891 and offered training in home economics and industrial arts. The Anna Blake School was taken over by the state in 1909 and became the Santa Barbara State Normal School, the State College system sued to stop the takeover, but the Governor did not support the suit. A state initiative was passed, however, in 1946 to stop subsequent conversions of State Colleges to University of California campuses, from 1944 to 1958 the school was known as Santa Barbara College of the University of California, before taking on its current name. When the vacated Marine Corps training station in Goleta was purchased for the growing college. Originally, the Regents envisioned a small, several thousand-student liberal arts college, chronologically, UCSB is the third general-education campus of the University of California, after Berkeley and UCLA. The original campus the Regents acquired in Santa Barbara was located on only 100 acres of largely unusable land on a seaside mesa, all of this change was done in accordance with the California Master Plan for Higher Education. In 1959, UCSB professor Douwe Stuurman hosted the English writer Aldous Huxley as the universitys first visiting professor, Huxley delivered a lectures series called The Human Situation. In the late 1960s and early 1970s UCSB became nationally known as a hotbed of anti-Vietnam War activity, a bombing at the schools faculty club in 1969 killed the caretaker, Dover Sharp. UCSBs anti-Vietnam activity impelled then Governor Ronald Reagan to impose a curfew, weapon-carrying guardsmen were a common sight on campus and in Isla Vista during this time. On May 23,2014, a killing spree occurred in Isla Vista, California, all six people killed during the rampage were students at UCSB
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Big West Conference
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The Big West Conference is an American collegiate athletic conference whose member institutions participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Associations Division I. The conference was formed in 1969 as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The conference stopped sponsoring football after the 2000 season. The Big West Conference was formed in June 1968 as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association, the 5 original charter members were Fresno State, San Jose State, UC Santa Barbara, San Diego State, and Long Beach State. Two other schools, Cal State Los Angeles and the University of the Pacific, were also considered, the newly formed conference had a number of meetings to set up its governance, which was confirmed in October 1968 on the campus of UC Santa Barbara. Before the league started play, Cal State Los Angeles joined as a full member, the conference itself lists July 1,1969 as the recognized creation date with the 7 institutions. Since its inception as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association, the conference has seen many changes, Utah State was the first institution outside of California to join the conference in 1978. This opened the floodgates for other schools to affiliate with the PCAA, notable schools include UNLV, Nevada, Louisiana Tech. In 1983, the PCAA became the first western conference to introduce womens athletic programs and this proved vital for Hawaiʻi as their only participation in the conference was for their womens sports. From the departures of Idaho and Utah State in 2005 until the arrival of Hawaiʻi in 2012, all members were based in California, reducing the cost, when Hawaiʻi joined, it agreed to help defray a portion of travel costs to that state for the leagues California members. There have been no fewer than 25 full and associate members in the conferences history, effective July 1,1988, the Pacific Coast Athletic Association changed its name to the Big West Conference. With such schools as Utah State, UNLV, Nevada, New Mexico State, and Hawaii now in the fold, Notes A – Cal Poly San Luis Obispo competed in womens volleyball as an affiliate member from 1984-85 to 1989-90. B – UC Santa Barbara joined the conference when it was founded in 1969, left to become an independent after the 1973–74 season, Notes C – Sacramento State mens soccer joined the Big West Conference in 2012–13 season and beach volleyball followed for the 2015–2016 season. D – CSU Bakersfield beach volleyball joined the Big West Conference in the 2015–16 season, E – UC San Diego mens volleyball has announced it will join the Big West Conference in the 2017–18 season. Many of the members of the Big West are now members of the Western Athletic Conference or the Mountain West Conference. Of the former members, Cal State Los Angeles is the team that reverted to Division II level. School names and nicknames reflect those used by the institutions when they were Big West members, one school has changed its name and one its nickname. Notes Full members Full members Assoc. members Assoc. member Notes San Diego State played football as an independent for the 1976 and 1977 seasons prior to leaving the Big West Conference in 1978, UC Santa Barbara was an independent from 1974–75 to 1975–76
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Mountain Pacific Sports Federation
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The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation is a college athletic conference whose member teams are located in the western United States. The conference participates at the NCAA Division I level, the MPSF was founded in 1992 and specifically created to provide an outlet for competition in non-revenue-producing Olympic sports. The MPSF conducts championships in volleyball, womens lacrosse, and indoor track, gymnastics. In 2010 the MPSF added womens swimming and diving to its list of sports, the 2012–13 school year was the last for MPSF competition in mens soccer. The conferences membership varies by sport,37 schools are MPSF members in at least one of its sponsored sports, schools are not required to participate in the MPSF competition for each sponsored sport if their primary conference affiliation sponsors a competition in that sport. All MPSF members have a conference affiliation. All Pac-12 and Big West Conference members house at least one sport in the MPSF, the West Coast Conference is represented by six schools, and the Mountain West Conference has four full members represented. The Great Northwest Athletic Conference is represented by Alaska–Anchorage and Seattle Pacific, five conferences are represented by one school each—the Big 12 Conference, the California Collegiate Athletic Association, the Pacific West Conference, and the Western Athletic Conference. Source, California Baptist — Home Conference moves to the NCAA D-I Western Athletic Conference in 2018, UC San Diego — Volleyball joins the Big West in 2017. Concordia–Irvine, Grand Canyon — Volleyball joins in July 2017, the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation sponsors championship competition in five mens and five womens NCAA sanctioned sports The MPSF dropped mens soccer after the 2012 season. The moves of Denver and New Mexico to other conferences left the MPSF with six soccer members, MPSF soccer member Seattle was already in the WAC, and another MPSF soccer school, CSU Bakersfield, was already committed to join the WAC in 2013. Because the WAC dropped football after the 2012 season due to a near-complete membership turnover, to that end, it invited the four remaining MPSF soccer schools to join them, all accepted, and the WAC began sponsoring mens soccer in 2013–14. This number is required by league bylaws for official sponsorship of a sport and this led the Pac-12 to announce that all of its womens lacrosse teams would leave the MPSF for the new Pac-12 lacrosse league for the 2018 season. The five remaining MPSF lacrosse schools will retain that leagues automatic NCAA tournament bid for the 2018 and 2019 seasons while the MPSF seeks to add new members in that sport. The GCC took six of the 10 members of the MPSF mens water polo league, on May 31,2016 the Big West Conference announced that it would begin sponsoring mens volleyball in the 2017–18 school year. The Big West mens volleyball league will include five full members Long Beach State, Cal State Northridge, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara and Hawaii, the full Big West members will remain in the MPSF in other sports but UC San Diego will exit the federation. ‡ — leaving in July 2017, penn State Behrend — participates only in conference tournament. The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation has won 86 NCAA titles in seven sports, UCLA has won 23 national titles
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a non-profit association which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations, and individuals. It also organizes the programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The organization is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2014, the NCAA generated almost a billion dollars in revenue. 80 to 90% of this revenue was due to the Division I Mens Basketball Tournament and this revenue is then distributed back into various organizations and institutions across the United States. In August 1973, the current three-division setup of Division I, Division II, under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II schools can offer scholarships to athletes for playing a sport. Division III schools may not offer any athletic scholarships, generally, larger schools compete in Division I and smaller schools in II and III. Division I football was divided into I-A and I-AA in 1978. Subsequently, the term Division I-AAA was briefly added to delineate Division I schools which do not field a football program at all, in 2006, Divisions I-A and I-AA were respectively renamed the Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision. Inter-collegiate sports began in the US in 1852 when crews from Harvard University, as other sports emerged, notably football and basketball, many of these same concepts and standards were adopted. Football, in particular, began to emerge as a marquee sport, the IAAUS was officially established on March 31,1906, and took its present name, the NCAA, in 1910. For several years, the NCAA was a group and rules-making body, but in 1921, the first NCAA national championship was conducted. Gradually, more rules committees were formed and more championships were created, a series of crises brought the NCAA to a crossroads after World War II. The Sanity Code – adopted to establish guidelines for recruiting and financial aid – failed to curb abuses, postseason football games were multiplying with little control, and member schools were increasingly concerned about how the new medium of television would affect football attendance. The complexity of problems and the growth in membership and championships demonstrated the need for full-time professional leadership. Walter Byers, previously an executive assistant, was named executive director in 1951. Byers wasted no time placing his stamp on the Association, as college athletics grew, the scope of the nations athletics programs diverged, forcing the NCAA to create a structure that recognized varying levels of emphasis. In 1973, the Associations membership was divided into three legislative and competitive divisions – I, II, and III, five years later in 1978, Division I members voted to create subdivisions I-A and I-AA in football. Until the 1980s, the association did not offer womens athletics, instead, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, with nearly 1000 member schools, governed womens collegiate sports in the United States
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NCAA Division I
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Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. This level was called the University Division of the NCAA, in contrast to the lower level College Division. For football only, Division I was further subdivided in 1978 into Division I-A, Division I-AA, in 2006, Division I-A and I-AA were renamed Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision, respectively. FCS teams are allowed to award scholarships, a practice technically allowed. FBS teams also have to meet attendance requirements, while FCS teams do not need to meet minimum attendance requirements. Another difference is post season play, starting with the 2014 postseason, a four-team playoff called the College Football Playoff, replaced the previous one game championship format. Even so, Division I FBS football is still the only NCAA sport in which a champion is not determined by an NCAA-sanctioned championship event. All D-I schools must field teams in at least seven sports for men and seven for women or six for men and eight for women, with at least two team sports for each gender. Division I schools must meet minimum financial aid awards for their athletics program, Several other NCAA sanctioned minimums and differences that distinguish Division I from Divisions II and III. Each playing season has to be represented by each gender as well, there are contest and participant minimums for each sport, as well as scheduling criteria. Mens and womens teams have to play all but two games against Division I teams, for men, they must play one-third of all their contests in the home arena. The NCAA has limits on the financial aid each Division I member may award in each sport that the school sponsors. Equivalency sports, in which the NCAA limits the total financial aid that a school can offer in a sport to the equivalent of a set number of full scholarships. Roster limitations may or may not apply, depending on the sport, the term counter is also key to this concept. The NCAA defines a counter as an individual who is receiving financial aid that is countable against the aid limitations in a sport. The number of scholarships that Division I members may award in sport is listed below. In this table, scholarship numbers for head-count sports are indicated without a point, for equivalency sports, they are listed with a decimal point. An exception exists for players at non-scholarship FCS programs who receive aid in another sport, participants in basketball are counted in that sport, unless they also play football
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Santa Barbara, California
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Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County in the U. S. state of California. Situated on a section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States. Santa Barbaras climate is described as Mediterranean, and the city has been promoted as the American Riviera. The population of the county in 2010 was 423,895. In 2004, the sector accounted for fully 35% of local employment. Education in particular is well represented, with four institutions of learning on the south coast. The Santa Barbara Airport serves the city, as does Amtrak, U. S. Highway 101 connects the Santa Barbara area with Los Angeles to the southeast and San Francisco to the northwest. Behind the city, in and beyond the Santa Ynez Mountains, is the Los Padres National Forest, Channel Islands National Park and Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary are located approximately 20 miles offshore. Evidence of human habitation of the area begins at least 13,000 years ago, an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 Chumash lived on the south coast of Santa Barbara County at the time of the first European explorations. Five Chumash villages flourished in the area, portuguese explorer João Cabrilho, sailing for the Kingdom of Spain, sailed through what is now called the Santa Barbara Channel in 1542, anchoring briefly in the area. In 1602, Spanish maritime explorer Sebastián Vizcaíno gave the name Santa Barbara to the channel, a land expedition led by Gaspar de Portolà visited in 1769, and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespi, who accompanied the expedition, named a large native town Laguna de la Concepcion. Cabrillos earlier name, however, is the one that has survived, the first permanent European residents were Spanish missionaries and soldiers under Felipe de Neve, who came in 1782 to build the Presidio. They were sent both to fortify the region against expansion by other such as England and Russia. Many of the Spaniards brought their families with them, and those formed the nucleus of the small town – at first just a cluster of adobes – that surrounded the Presidio, the Santa Barbara Mission was established on the Feast of Saint Barbara, December 4,1786. It was the tenth of the California Missions to be founded by the Spanish Franciscans and it was dedicated by Padre Fermín Lasuén, who succeeded Padre Junipero Serra as the second president and founder of the California Franciscan Mission Chain. The Mission fathers began the work of converting the native Chumash to Christianity. The Chumash laborers built a connection between the creek and the Santa Barbara Mission water system through the use of a dam. During the following decades, many of the natives died of such as smallpox
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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UC Santa Barbara Events Center
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The Thunderdome was built in 1979, originally under the name of Campus Events Center. Along with Harder Stadium, it has become one of the most patronized venues at UC Santa Barbara. After a naming contest and vote among students and faculty, it was given the generic name Campus Events Center. Eventually, the name was shorted to the ECen. For basketball, the stadium seats 5,600, other configurations result in differing capacities, most notably 5,814 as a maximum or 3,584 to 4,848 for concerts. Currently, the 5,600 seat stadium is the third largest arena in the Big West Conference, behind the 10, 200-seat Stan Sheriff Center at the University of Hawaii and the 8, 000-seat UC Davis Pavilion. The floor of the Thunderdome was named by Bleacher Report as the 11th best court design in college basketball, at first, crowds were small, but with the hiring of Jerry Pimm in 1983, the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos mens basketball program began to experience greater success. As the size of crowds began to increase, the Events Center gained a reputation as one of the loudest and most hostile venues in college basketball, creating significant problems for opposing teams. After UCSB upset Jim Valvanos North Carolina State Wolfpack team by double digits in 1987 before a sellout crowd, credit has been given to the athletic director at that time, Stan Morrison, for having coined the nickname. Also many believe it was reinforced from Valvano himself when he said in a postgame interview. During the 1980s, students threw toilet paper onto the court after the first Gaucho basket, after the school cracked down on this practice around 1990, students started a new tradition of tossing tortillas onto the court like frisbees after the first UCSB basket. The team would then be assessed a technical foul for delay of game while the tortillas were cleaned up, during an early 1990s game, one of ESPNs professional video cameras was ruined when tortilla fragments got into the mechanism. While UCSB paid for a replacement camera, ESPN was skittish about returning to the Thunderdome, despite continued pleading from the players and coaches to stop the practice, the tradition continued unabated. Following this incident, UCSB officials began searching students for tortillas as they entered the arena, apart from a few sporadic instances of tortilla-tossing, the novelty has worn off. The Thunderdome is the home to teams of the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos athletic program, in 2002,2,794 fans attended a womens volleyball match between UCSB and the USC Trojans in which the 9th ranked Gauchos upset USC3 games to 1. The facility also hosted and the first and second games of the 2004 NCAA Womens Division I Basketball Tournament. In addition to sporting events, The Thunderdome has seen many concerts, boxing matches, dave Chappelle performed comedy on June 2,2004, while The Killers played at The Thunderdome on April 6,2007 and the Harlem Globetrotters played an exhibition game on February 15,2007. The center hosts basketball camps by Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant and these camps take place during the summer months
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Caesar Uyesaka Stadium
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Caesar Uyesaka Stadium is a baseball stadium in Santa Barbara, California. It is the field of the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos baseball team as well as the Santa Barbara Foresters. The stadium known simply as Campus Diamond or Campus Stadium opened in 1964, the stadium was renamed for the late Caesar Uyesaka, a Santa Barbara resident and dedicated UCSB booster. The first game was hosted at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium on 5 February 1994 in a contest between UC Santa Barbara and the University of San Diego Toreros, UCSB won the game,10 to 4. The stadium is designed with two levels, one on top of the other, where all seating is directly behind home plate and it offers a unique view in that the seats are field level and under the shade of the seating deck above it. The seating does not stretch past first or third base, there is no established seating in the outfield, although occasionally students stand behind the outfield fences. With Santa Barbaras Mediterranean climate, Caesar Uyesaka Stadium is a destination for students. The Santa Ynez Mountains can be seen beyond the outfield fence, the prevailing breeze off the ocean blows toward the outfield and makes the stadium a hitter-friendly park, despite the fact its outfield fences are farther than many major league ballparks. Under coach Al Ferrer, UCSB improved its program in the late 1970s and 1980s, along with this improvement came larger and more enthusiastic crowds. A group of students taking the cardboard boxes given out at the concession stands to carry food. Eventually this practice spread and the student section of supporters became known as the hammerheads. To accommodate the strain of hosting two teams, Caesar Uyesaka Stadium has undergone many upgrades to provide an enjoyable experience to the crowds. Recent upgrades since 2006 include a 1, 600-square-foot clubhouse and covered hitting/pitching facility, the upgrades, however, have not brought Caesar Uyesaka up to minimum standards to host an NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament regional or super regional tournament. The facility lacks lights and adequate facilities, and the capacity is short of what the NCAA desires for a host site. UCSB hosted a 2015 regional at the Lake Elsinore Diamond in Riverside County, list of NCAA Division I baseball venues
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Harder Stadium
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Harder Stadium is a 17,000 seat, outdoor multi-purpose stadium on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, California. It serves as the soccer stadium for both the mens and womens programs. It is also used occasionally by the universitys club rugby and lacrosse teams. The stadium was built in 1966 and is named after Theodore Spud Harder and it hosted Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers who trained there ahead of the 1967 Super Bowl. The UC-Santa Barbara football team played their games at Harder Stadium until football was cut after the 1972 season due to budget cuts. UCSB brought football back as a sport in 1983 and by 1987 was playing a full Division II and III schedule. The stadium has a capacity of 17,000 people, along with the UCSB Events Center, it is one of the more well-attended athletic venues in the Central Coast. Harder Stadium hosted a service for the victims of the 2014 Isla Vista Killings. Guests in attendance included UC President Janet Napolitano, and over 20,000 students, staff, alumni, the stadium seats were filled over capacity as thousands more sat on the grass field. Harder Stadium sees most of its use as a soccer stadium to the UCSB mens soccer. The stadium hosted the three matches of the 2010 College Cup. However, a number of club and international teams have played in Harder Stadium as well. Due to the success of the program, the stadium has hosted numerous NCAA soccer playoff games in addition to the regular season games. Despite the mens program recent success, it was the program who first brought the NCAA Tournaments to Harder Stadium. The women hosted the first soccer NCAA Tournament game in a 1985 4-3 victory against Cal State Hayward, in total, the womens program has held 4 NCAA Tournament matches at Harder Stadium, bringing such opponents as the Wisconsin Badgers, Stanford Cardinal, and Hartford Hawks. The mens program hosted their first mens NCAA Tournament game in 2002, in total, they have hosted 9 NCAA Tournament games. In 2004,11,214 fans saw UCSB defeat Virginia Commonwealth 4-1 to reach the College Cup, after the game, a group of students celebrated by carrying one of the soccer goals out of the stadium. They had planned to throw it into the Pacific Ocean, but were stopped by a combination of law enforcement down the block, however, in 2006, the UCSB won the 2006 Division I Mens College Cup in St. Louis, Missouri
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Robertson Gymnasium
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Robertson Gymnasium is a 2,600 to 4, 000-seat multi-purpose indoor arena located on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, California. Robertson Gymnasium was built in 1958 and completed in 1959, the main tenant of Rob Gym is the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos athletic program. Currently, only the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos mens volleyball team is the team that calls Rob Gym home. In addition to serving as an arena, Rob Gym has seen its fair share of concerts. Most of the concerts, and with them the Gauchos basketball teams, would move to the Thunderdome during the 1979-80 school year
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Sport
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Usually the contest or game is between two sides, each attempting to exceed the other. Some sports allow a tie game, others provide tie-breaking methods, to one winner. A number of such two-sided contests may be arranged in a tournament producing a champion, many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs. Hundreds of sports exist, from those between single contestants, through to those with hundreds of participants, either in teams or competing as individuals. In certain sports such as racing, many contestants may compete, each against each other, however, a number of competitive, but non-physical, activities claim recognition as mind sports. Sports are usually governed by a set of rules or customs, which serve to ensure fair competition, winning can be determined by physical events such as scoring goals or crossing a line first. It can also be determined by judges who are scoring elements of the sporting performance, records of performance are often kept, and for popular sports, this information may be widely announced or reported in sport news. Sport is also a source of entertainment for non-participants, with spectator sport drawing large crowds to sport venues. Sports betting is in some cases severely regulated, and in some cases is central to the sport, kearney, a consultancy, the global sporting industry is worth up to $620 billion as of 2013. The worlds most accessible and practised sport is running, while football is the most popular spectator sport. The word Sport comes from the Old French desport meaning leisure, other meanings include gambling and events staged for the purpose of gambling, hunting, and games and diversions, including ones that require exercise. Rogets defines the noun sport as an activity engaged in for relaxation, the singular term sport is used in most English dialects to describe the overall concept, with sports used to describe multiple activities. American English uses sports for both terms, the precise definition of what separates a sport from other leisure activities varies between sources. They also recognise that sport can be physical, primarily mind, predominantly motorised, primarily co-ordination. The inclusion of sports within sport definitions has not been universally accepted. Whilst SportAccord recognises a number of mind sports, it is not open to admitting any further mind sports. According to Council of Europe, European Sports Charter, article 2, other bodies advocate widening the definition of sport to include all physical activity. For instance, the Council of Europe include all forms of physical exercise, in competitive events, participants are graded or classified based on their result and often divided into groups of comparable performance
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1979 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
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The 1979 NCAA Mens Water Polo Championship was the 11th annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA mens college water polo. Tournament matches were played at the Belmont Plaza Pool in Long Beach, UC Santa Barbara defeated UCLA in the final, 11–3, to win their first national title. Greg Boyer from UC Santa Barbara was named the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament, an All-Tournament Team, consisting of seven players, was also named. For the third year, the tournaments leading scorer was Scott Schulte from Bucknell. Since there has ever been one single national championship for water polo. A total of 8 teams were invited to contest this championship
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Gaucho
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Gaucho or gaúcho is a word with several meanings. Because historical gauchos were reputed to be brave, if unruly, the word is also applied metaphorically to mean Noble, brave and generous, in its purest sense, gaucho referred to the nomadic, often outlaw inhabitants of the great plains of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. In current usage, gaucho usually designates the rural working class in general, the gaucho is a national symbol in both Argentina and Uruguay. Gauchos became greatly admired and renowned in legends, folklore and literature, beginning late in the 19th century, after the heyday of the gauchos, they were celebrated by South American writers. There are several hypotheses concerning the origin of the term and it may derive from the Spanish term chaucho, in turn derived from a Turkish low-rank military term Chiaus, through Arabic Shawsh which became broadly applied to any guard/watcher or aide. The first recorded use of the dates to Argentine independence in 1816. The 18th century chronicler Alonso Carrió de la Vandera speaks of Gauderios when it mentions the Gauchos or Huasos as poorly dressed men, another plausible origin is from a South American indigenous language, such as Mapudungun cauchu, kauču, or Quechua wahcha. It could also derive from Arabic wahcha which means the state of being lonely in the wilderness, an essential attribute of a gaucho was that he was a skilled horseman. Without a horse the gaucho felt himself unmanned, a gaucho could ride as soon as he could walk. The naturalist William Henry Hudson recorded that the gauchos of his childhood used to say and he described meeting a blind gaucho who was obliged to beg for his food yet behaved with dignity and went about on horseback. By reputation the quintessential gaucho caudillo Juan Manuel de Rosas could throw his hat on the ground and scoop it up while galloping his horse, without touching the saddle with his hand. A popular copla was, Mi caballo y mi mujer viajaron para Salta, el que se vuelva. It was the passion to own all his steeds in matching colours. Recalled Hudson, The gaucho, from the poorest worker on horseback to the largest owner of lands and cattle, has, or had in those days, the caudillo El Chacho Peñalosa described the low point of his life as In Chile − and on foot. The gaucho plays an important symbolic role in the nationalist feelings of this region, especially that of Argentina, Paraguay, the epic poem Martín Fierro by José Hernández used the gaucho as a symbol against corruption and of Argentine national tradition, pitted against Europeanising tendencies. Martín Fierro, the hero of the poem, is drafted into the Argentine military for a war, deserts. The image of the gaucho is often contrasted to the slaves who worked the northern Brazilian lands. Further literary descriptions are found in Ricardo Güiraldes Don Segundo Sombra, the gaucho tendency to violence over petty matters is also recognized as a typical trait
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Douglas Fairbanks
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Douglas Fairbanks was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. He was best known for his roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood. Fairbanks was a member of United Artists. Fairbanks was also a member of The Motion Picture Academy. With his marriage to Mary Pickford in 1920, the couple became Hollywood royalty and Fairbanks was referred to as The King of Hollywood, a nickname later passed on to actor Clark Gable. Though widely considered as one of the biggest stars in Hollywood during the 1910s and 1920s and his final film was The Private Life of Don Juan. Fairbanks was born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman in Denver, Colorado and he had two half-brothers, John Fairbanks, Jr. and Norris Wilcox, and a full brother, Robert Payne Ullman. Douglas Fairbankss father, Hezekiah Charles Ullman was born in Berrysburg, Pennsylvania and he was the fourth child in a Jewish family consisting of six sons and four daughters. Charless parents, Lazarus Ullman and Lydia Abrahams, had immigrated to the U. S. in 1830 from Baden, when he was 17, Charles started a small publishing business in Philadelphia. Two years later, he left for New York to study law and he was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1856 and began building a substantial practice. At the onset of the Civil War, Charles joined the Union forces and he engaged in several battles, was wounded, and later became a captain in the 5th Pennsylvania Reserves. Charles left the service in 1864 and returned to his law practice, law Association, a forerunner of the American Bar Association. Charles met Ella Adelaide Marsh, after she married his friend and client John Fairbanks, the Fairbankses had a son, John, and shortly thereafter John Senior died of tuberculosis. Ella, born into a wealthy southern Catholic family, was overprotected, consequently, she was swindled out of her fortune by her husbands partners. Even the efforts of Charles Ullman, acting on her behalf, distraught and lonely, she met and married a courtly Georgian, Edward Wilcox, who turned out to be an alcoholic. After they had a son, Norris, she divorced Wilcox with Charles acting as her own lawyer in the suit, the pretty southern belle soon became romantically involved with Charles and agreed to move to Denver with him to pursue mining investments. They arrived in Denver in 1881 with her son, John and they were married and in 1882 had a child, Robert and then a second son, Douglas, a year later. Charles purchased several mining interests in the Rocky Mountains, and he re-established his law practice, Charles Ullman, after hearing of his wifes philandering, abandoned the family when Douglas was five years old
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The Gaucho
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The Gaucho is a 1927 silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Vélez set in Argentina. The lavish adventure extravaganza, filmed at the height of Fairbanks box office clout, was directed by F. Richard Jones with a time of 115 minutes. Fairbanks biographer Jeffrey Vance considers the film a near masterwork and an anomaly among his works, Vance also considers it a daring departure, the film is an effort of unanticipated darkness in tone, setting, and character. The spirit of adolescent boyish adventure, the omnipresent characteristic of his films, is noticeably absent. It has been replaced by a spiritual fervor and an element of seething sexuality the likes of which has never seen before in one of his productions. It has subsequently been screened at MoMA, and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival to promote the new book Douglas Fairbanks with author Jeffrey Vance introducing the screenings. The nickname for the teams of the University of California-Santa Barbara is The Gauchos in honor of Fairbanks acting in the eponymous film. The Gaucho at the Internet Movie Database The Gaucho synopsis at AllMovie
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Pantone
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Pantone Inc. is a corporation headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey. X-Rite Inc. a supplier of color measurement instruments and software, Pantone began in New York City in the 1950s as the commercial printing company of M & J Levine Advertising. In 1956, its founders, advertising executives brothers Mervin and Jesse Levine, for instance, a particular page might contain a number of yellows of varying tints. The idea behind the PMS is to allow designers to color match specific colors when a design enters production stage and this system has been widely adopted by graphic designers and reproduction and printing houses. Pantone recommends that PMS Color Guides be purchased annually, as their inks become yellowish over time, Color variance also occurs within editions based on the paper stock used, while interedition color variance occurs when there are changes to the specific paper stock used. The Pantone Color Matching System is largely a standardized color reproduction system, by standardizing the colors, different manufacturers in different locations can all refer to the Pantone system to make sure colors match without direct contact with one another. One such use is standardizing colors in the CMYK process, the CMYK process is a method of printing color by using four inks—cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. A majority of the printed material is produced using the CMYK process. Those that are possible to simulate through the CMYK process are labeled as such within the companys guides, however, most of the Pantone systems 1,114 spot colors cannot be simulated with CMYK but with 13 base pigments mixed in specified amounts. The Pantone system also allows for many special colors to be produced, such as metallics, while most of the Pantone system colors are beyond the printed CMYK gamut, it was only in 2001 that Pantone began providing translations of their existing system with screen-based colors. Screen-based colors use the RGB color model—red, green, blue—system to create various colors, the Goe system has RGB and LAB values with each color. Pantone colors are described by their allocated number, PMS colors are almost always used in branding and have even found their way into government legislation and military standards. In January 2003, the Scottish Parliament debated a petition to refer to the blue in the Scottish flag as Pantone 300, countries such as Canada and South Korea and organizations such as the FIA have also chosen to refer to specific Pantone colors to use when producing flags. US states including Texas have set legislated PMS colors of their flags and it has also been used in an art project by the Brazilian photographer Angelica Dass which applies Pantone to the human skin color spectrum. On September 5,2007, Pantone introduced the Goe System, Goe consisted of over 2,000 new colors in a new matching and numbering system. The Goe system was streamlined to use base colors and accommodate many technical challenges in reproducing colors on a press. The Pantone Goe system was discontinued in November 2013, in mid-2006 Pantone, partnering with Vermont-based Fine Paints of Europe, introduced a new line of interior and exterior paints. The color palette uses Pantones color research and trending and has more than 3,000 colors, in November 2015, Pantone partnered with Redland London to create a collection of bags inspired from Pantones authority on color
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UC Santa Barbara Gauchos baseball
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The UC Santa Barbara Gauchos baseball team represents the University of California, Santa Barbara in the sport of baseball. The Gauchos compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association through the Big West Conference and they are currently led by head coach Andrew Checketts, who led his fifth season with the Gauchos in 2016. Few records exist from the start of Santa Barbaras baseball program, through its different incarnations, Santa Barbara has fielded a team as early as 1922. The first known head coach is Kenneth Bolton, who coached in only the 1922 season before handing the reigns to O. J. Gilliland in 1923 and it is likely to have had even earlier teams in the SCIAC as records show Santa Barbara joined the conference in 1931. Santa Barbaras first reliable team of record can be traced back to 1947, wearing multiple hats, Harder served as Santa Barbaras Director of Athletics, football head coach, and baseball head coach. The team played in the California Collegiate Athletic Association from at least 1947 until 1958 when it left to compete in the California Intercollegiate Baseball Association. Roy Engle, a duel sport head coach in football and baseball in the mold of Spud Harder, took over the program in 1952, the Gauchos lost both games they played against the Fresno State Bulldogs baseball team by a combined score of 28-6. Rene Rochelle took over the program in 1954 and coached the team through the CCAA to CIBA transition and he spent 6 seasons as head coach before Dave Gorrie took the lead for the 1960 season. Gorrie was at the helm for over 700 games in Gaucho blue and gold, throughout his 18 seasons as head coach, saw 6 league status changes. He endured through a rough start to his tenure, with the team compiling a 32–95 record in conference play his first 7 seasons – the worst such stretch in Gaucho baseball history. A change in for the 1967, going from CIBA competition to becoming an independent, independent ball lasted just one season with the Gauchos joining the West Coast Athletic Conference in 1968. The stay was short – just two seasons – before the Gauchos were on the move again, beginning with the 1970 season, the Gauchos competed in the Big West Conference through 1974. This period contained Gorries best season with the Gauchos - a 31–16 season which saw the Gauchos go 14–4 in Big West play resulting in their second-ever NCAA post season berth. In the 1972 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament, the Gauchos recorded their first-ever postseason wins against Santa Clara Broncos, before losing to eventual National Champions USC Trojans. It also marked the first time in UC Santa Barbara history that their team was nationally ranked at the end of the season after being ranked 17th at the conclusion of the year. In the 2015 NCAA Division I baseball season, the Gauchos set a record for wins en route to hosting their first ever NCAA Regional in the 2015 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. Star pitcher Dillon Tate was drafted 4th overall in the 2015 Major League Baseball draft, the 2016 NCAA Division I baseball season saw the Gauchos build on their success. The Gauchos were thought to be too young to compete at a level for 2016
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UC Santa Barbara Gauchos women's basketball
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The UC Santa Barbara Gauchos womens basketball team is the basketball team that represents University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, California, United States. The schools team competes in the Big West Conference. As of the end of the 2015-16 season, the Gauchos have a record of 699-581. They previously played in the SCWIAC from 1972-1976, the SCAA from 1976-1981, Independent status from 1981-1983, UCSB has the most Big West Conference tournament titles with 14, with 11 regular season titles in addition. Advanced to the Sweet Sixteen in 2004 after beating Colorado 76-49 and they lost 63-57 to Connecticut to end their run
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UC Santa Barbara Gauchos men's basketball
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The UC Santa Barbara Gauchos mens basketball team is the basketball team that represents University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, California, United States. The schools team competes in the Big West Conference. The current head coach is Joe Pasternack, the main rival of the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos mens basketball team is the Cal Poly Mustangs mens basketball team. The rivalry is a part of the larger Blue–Green Rivalry, which encompasses all sports from the two schools, source The Gauchos have appeared in five NCAA tournaments. The Gauchos have appeared in five National Invitation Tournaments, the Gauchos have appeared in one Vegas 16. The Gauchos have appeared in the College Basketball Invitational one time, the Gauchos have appeared in one CollegeInsider. com Postseason Tournament. The Gauchos have appeared in the NAIA Tournament one time
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UC Santa Barbara Gauchos men's soccer
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The UC Santa Barbara Gauchos mens soccer team is a NCAA Division I college soccer team composed of student-athletes attending the University of California, Santa Barbara. The Gauchos play their matches at Harder Stadium. Like most of the other UC Santa Barbara Gauchos athletic teams, since 2007, the Gauchos have been recognized every year by the NCAA as the mens attendance champions by average attendance – the longest such recorded streak in the NCAA record books. Additionally, the program holds the top six all-time NCAA soccer records for largest regular season attendances at on-campus venues, the team is most famous for winning the 2006 NCAA Division I Mens Soccer Championship. It was a finalist in the 2004 NCAA Division I Mens Soccer Championship, the program has produced a total of 19 All-American selections, all but one of which since 2002, and over 40 players who have gone on to play professionally or represent their senior national teams. UC Santa Barbara fielded its first mens team in 1966. The Gauchos had mixed success, with good seasons alongside bad seasons, the Big West Conference stopped sponsoring mens soccer after the 1991 season, but re-instituted it prior to the 2001 season. During this period, UCSB competed in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, the return of soccer to the Big West Conference marked the rough beginning of the Gauchos greatest success to date. UC Santa Barbara have won eight Big West regular season championships and have won the Big West tournament in 2010, the Gauchos burst on to the national scene in 2004 during their run at the 2004 NCAA Championship. The showing in this tournament established UC Santa Barbara as a force in college soccer, the crowning achievement of the mens soccer program took place in 2006, where UCSB won the NCAA Division I Championship in a 2-1 decision over UCLA. It marked the programs first championship and only the universitys second athletics championship, at one point during the season, UCSBs record stood at 7-6 with dim prospects for postseason glory. However, a 5-1 stretch to close out the season raised morale. The Gauchos made the NCAA Tournament as an unseeded team and this propelled the Gauchos into the Final Four and earned them a trip to the College Cup held at Hermann Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri. UCSB needed extra time to defeat #2 seed Wake Forest 0-0 in their first match of the College Cup, the final was a matchup between Southern California teams as UCLA advanced on a 4-0 win over Virginia. The #8 ranked/#8 seeded Bruins served as the team to fall to the Gauchos by a score of 2-1 to complete UCSBs magical season. At the end of UCSBs 2-1 loss to UC Davis in overtime, during the chaos, UCSB senior Peter McGlynn ran toward the match referee, Reed Christy, and pushed him to the ground despite Vom Steegs attempts to block McGlynn. McGlynn was detained by police and later released. McGlynn later apologized with a statement on his Twitter account and pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor, as of November 9,2016 Note, Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules
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George W. Bush
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George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was also the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000 and he is the eldest son of Barbara and George H. W. Bush. After graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, Bush married Laura Welch in 1977 and ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives shortly thereafter. He later co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before defeating Ann Richards in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election and he is the second president to assume the nations highest office after his father, following the lead of John Quincy Adams. He is also a brother of Jeb Bush, a former Governor of Florida who was a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2016 presidential election, the September 11 terrorist attacks occurred eight months into Bushs first term as president. Bush responded with what became known as the Bush Doctrine, launching a War on Terror, a military campaign that included the war in Afghanistan in 2001. He also promoted policies on the economy, health care, education, Social Security reform and his tenure included national debates on immigration, Social Security, electronic surveillance, and torture. In the 2004 Presidential race, Bush defeated Democratic Senator John Kerry in another close election. After his re-election, Bush received increasingly heated criticism from across the spectrum for his handling of the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina. Amid this criticism, the Democratic Party regained control of Congress in the 2006 elections, Bush left office in 2009, returning to Texas where he purchased a home in Crawford. He wrote a memoir, Decision Points and his presidential library was opened in 2013. His presidency has been ranked among the worst in historians polls published in the late 2000s and 2010s. George Walker Bush was born on July 6,1946, at Grace-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, as the first child of George Herbert Walker Bush and his wife, the former Barbara Pierce. He was raised in Midland and Houston, Texas, with four siblings, Jeb, Neil, Marvin, another younger sister, Robin, died from leukemia at the age of three in 1953. His grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a U. S and his father, George H. W. Bush, was Ronald Reagans Vice President from 1981 to 1989 and the 41st U. S. President from 1989 to 1993. Bush has English and some German ancestry, along with more distant Dutch, Welsh, Irish, French, Bush attended public schools in Midland, Texas, until the family moved to Houston after he had completed seventh grade. He then spent two years at The Kinkaid School, a school in Houston. Bush attended high school at Phillips Academy, a school in Andover, Massachusetts
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White House
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The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States, located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D. C. It has been the residence of every U. S. president since John Adams in 1800, the term White House is often used to refer to actions of the president and his advisers, as in The White House announced that. The residence was designed by Irish-born architect James Hoban in the Neoclassical style, construction took place between 1792 and 1800 using Aquia Creek sandstone painted white. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he added low colonnades on each wing that concealed stables and storage. In 1814, during the War of 1812, the mansion was set ablaze by the British Army in the Burning of Washington, destroying the interior, reconstruction began almost immediately, and President James Monroe moved into the partially reconstructed Executive Residence in October 1817. Exterior construction continued with the addition of the semi-circular South portico in 1824, because of crowding within the executive mansion itself, President Theodore Roosevelt had all work offices relocated to the newly constructed West Wing in 1901. Eight years later in 1909, President William Howard Taft expanded the West Wing and created the first Oval Office, in the main mansion, the third-floor attic was converted to living quarters in 1927 by augmenting the existing hip roof with long shed dormers. A newly constructed East Wing was used as an area for social events. East Wing alterations were completed in 1946, creating additional office space, by 1948, the houses load-bearing exterior walls and internal wood beams were found to be close to failure. Under Harry S. Truman, the rooms were completely dismantled. Once this work was completed, the rooms were rebuilt. The Executive Residence is made up of six stories—the Ground Floor, State Floor, Second Floor, the property is a National Heritage Site owned by the National Park Service and is part of the Presidents Park. In 2007, it was ranked second on the American Institute of Architects list of Americas Favorite Architecture, in May 1790, New York began construction of Government House for his official residence, but he never occupied it. The national capital moved to Philadelphia in December 1790, the July 1790 Residence Act named Philadelphia, Pennsylvania the temporary national capital for a 10-year period while the Federal City was under construction. The City of Philadelphia rented Robert Morriss city house at 190 High Street for Washingtons presidential residence, the first president occupied the Market Street mansion from November 1790 to March 1797, and altered it in ways that may have influenced the design of the White House. As part of an effort to have Philadelphia named the permanent national capital, Pennsylvania built a much grander presidential mansion several blocks away. President John Adams also occupied the Market Street mansion from March 1797 to May 1800, on Saturday, November 1,1800, he became the first president to occupy the White House. The Presidents House in Philadelphia became a hotel and was demolished in 1832, the Presidents House was a major feature of Pierre Charles LEnfants plan for the newly established federal city, Washington, D. C
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Major League Baseball
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Major League Baseball is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. A total of 30 teams now play in the National League and American League, the NL and AL operated as separate legal entities from 1876 and 1901 respectively. After cooperating but remaining legally separate entities since 1903, the merged into a single organization led by the Commissioner of Baseball in 2000. The organization also oversees Minor League Baseball, which comprises about 240 teams affiliated with the Major League clubs, with the World Baseball Softball Confederation, MLB manages the international World Baseball Classic tournament. Baseballs first professional team was founded in Cincinnati in 1869,30 years after Abner Doubleday supposedly invented the game of baseball, the first few decades of professional baseball were characterized by rivalries between leagues and by players who often jumped from one team or league to another. The period before 1920 in baseball was known as the dead-ball era, Baseball survived a conspiracy to fix the 1919 World Series, which came to be known as the Black Sox Scandal. The sport rose in popularity in the 1920s, and survived potential downturns during the Great Depression, shortly after the war, baseballs color barrier was broken by Jackie Robinson. The 1950s and 1960s were a time of expansion for the AL and NL, then new stadiums, Home runs dominated the game during the 1990s, and media reports began to discuss the use of anabolic steroids among Major League players in the mid-2000s. In 2006, an investigation produced the Mitchell Report, which implicated many players in the use of performance-enhancing substances, today, MLB is composed of thirty teams, twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada. Baseball broadcasts are aired on television, radio, and the Internet throughout North America, MLB has the highest season attendance of any sports league in the world with more than 73 million spectators in 2015. MLB is governed by the Major League Baseball Constitution and this document has undergone several incarnations since 1875, with the most recent revisions being made in 2012. Under the direction of the Commissioner of Baseball, MLB hires and maintains the sports umpiring crews, and negotiates marketing, labor, MLB maintains a unique, controlling relationship over the sport, including most aspects of Minor League Baseball. This ruling has been weakened only slightly in subsequent years, the weakened ruling granted more stability to the owners of teams and has resulted in values increasing at double-digit rates. There were several challenges to MLBs primacy in the sport between the 1870s and the Federal League in 1916, the last attempt at a new league was the aborted Continental League in 1960. The chief executive of MLB is the commissioner, Rob Manfred, the chief operating officer is Tony Petitti. There are five other executives, president, chief officer, chief legal officer, chief financial officer. The multimedia branch of MLB, which is based in Manhattan, is MLB Advanced Media and this branch oversees MLB. com and each of the 30 teams websites. Its charter states that MLB Advanced Media holds editorial independence from the league, MLB Productions is a similarly structured wing of the league, focusing on video and traditional broadcast media
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Michael Young (baseball)
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Michael Brian Young is an American former professional baseball infielder who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Texas Rangers, Philadelphia Phillies, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Originally a second baseman, the versatile Young was a five time All-Star at shortstop, once at third base and he was the 2005 American League batting champion. Young played baseball in school at Bishop Amat Memorial High School and in college at University of California. He was originally drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in 1994, after spending several seasons in the minor leagues with the Blue Jays, Young was traded to the Rangers where he spent over a decade. While with the Rangers, he set club records in offensive statistic categories including runs scored. In 2016, Young was inducted into the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame, Young was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 25th round of the 1994 Major League Baseball draft but did not sign. Three years later the Toronto Blue Jays selected him in the round of the 1997 Major League Baseball draft. Young signed with the Blue Jays, who traded him in 2000 with pitcher Darwin Cubillán to the Rangers for Esteban Loaiza while Young was still in their league system. Young made his debut in 1997 with the St. Catharines Blue Jays in the New York–Penn League. Among his achievements in the NY-Penn League were a 16-game hitting streak, tying for fifth in the league with 48 RBIs, in 1998, he spent the season with the Hagerstown Suns of the South Atlantic League. Playing second base, he led all players at his position in fielding percentage,1999 would be an all-star season for Young.313 and 155 respectively. After the regular season, he played for the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes in the California Fall League and he split 2000 between Double-A and Triple-A and, on July 19, was traded to the Rangers. The Rangers purchased his contract on September 27 and he played the five games of the season in the majors making his debut as a pinch runner. Though he began,2001 in Triple-A, he was recalled to the majors on May 25, Young reached the Majors briefly in 2000, playing 2nd and getting two at-bats. He hit.249 in 106 games as a second baseman in 2001, in 2002, Young placed second in fielding among second basemen with a.988 fielding percentage. In 2003, Young was 3rd in the league in hits with 204, Young had a fielding percentage of.987. He was second in the American League in hits with 216 and at bats with 690, fourth in runs with 114 and he spent 89 games hitting in the leadoff spot, the last time in his career that he hit leadoff prior to 2013. Young won the AL batting title in 2005 with an average of.331 and he was second in AL in at bats with 668, and his 114 runs were fifth-best in the AL
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Barry Zito
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Barry William Zito is an American former professional baseball pitcher and musician. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Oakland Athletics and his pitching repertoire consisted of a curveball, a four-seam fastball, a two-seam fastball, a circle changeup, and a cutter–slider. Zito attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles Pierce College, drafted three times while in college, Zito signed with the Athletics when they chose him in the first round of the 1999 MLB draft. A year later, he was in the leagues, finishing fifth in American League Rookie of the Year Award. He struggled to begin the 2001 season but improved greatly down the stretch and he won 23 games in 2002 and won the Cy Young Award. His record was only 14–12 in 2003, but he made the All-Star team for the second year in a row. In 2004, he had his worst season at the time and he became Oaklands Opening Day starter in 2005 and finished fifth in the AL with 171 strikeouts. In 2006, he made the All-Star team and posted a 15–1 record when receiving two or more runs of support, following his seventh season with the Athletics, Zito signed a seven-year deal with the Giants in December 2006. At the time, it was the largest contract given to a pitcher. He posted double-digit wins in his first three seasons, and in 2010 he helped San Francisco win their first championship since 1954, however, he struggled the last month of the season and he was left off the postseason roster. After sitting out much of the 2011 season with a foot and ankle injury, he came back in 2012 and flourished, finishing with a 15–8 record, his best season in a Giants uniform. The same October, Zito helped lead the Giants to their second World Series title in San Francisco history by going 2–0 with a 1.69 ERA in three postseason starts. In his first career World Series start, he outdueled Tigers ace Justin Verlander in Game 1, Zito struggled in 2013 but received a standing ovation from the fans in his final appearance as a Giant. Following the year, he became a free agent, Zito was born May 13,1978, in Las Vegas, Nevada. His family moved to San Diego, California, to help him concentrate on his baseball career and his father even stopped working to coach him. He transferred from El Cajons Grossmont High School to University of San Diego High School, Zito then attended UC Santa Barbara where he earned Freshman All-America Honors with 125 strikeouts in 85⅓ innings. In his sophomore season, Zito transferred to Los Angeles Pierce College so that he could be eligible for the Major League Baseball draft. At Pierce, he posted a 2.62 earned run average, went 9–2 with 135 strikeouts in 103 innings and he then transferred to the University of Southern California, where he was a first-team All-America selected by USA Today Baseball Weekly, Collegiate Baseball, and Baseball America
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Larry Dierker
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Lawrence Edward Dierker is a former Major League Baseball pitcher, manager, and broadcaster. During a 14-year baseball career as a pitcher, he pitched from 1964–1977 for the Houston Colt. 45s/Astros and he also managed the Astros for five years. Signed by the Colt. 45s at age 17, Dierker made his pitching debut on his 18th birthday –. In 1969, he became the Astros first 20-game winner, while compiling a 2.33 earned run average,20 complete games and 232 strikeouts over 305 innings and he was elected to the National League All-Star team in 1969 and 1971. On July 9,1976, Dierker pitched a no hitter against the Montreal Expos, as of 2016, Dierker is the last 17-year-old to make his major league debut. On May 19,2002, the Astros honored Dierker, retiring his No.49 jersey, from 1979 to 1996, Dierker served as a color commentator on the Astros radio and television broadcasts, a position he returned to in 2004 and 2005. Dierker was elected National League Manager of the Year in 1998, Houston finished in first place in four of the five years Dierker managed the team, failing only in 2000 when the Astros placed fourth. In 1999, Dierker had a scare during a game against the San Diego Padres. The Houston manager had been plagued by severe headaches for several days, during the June 13 game, Dierker had a grand mal seizure that rendered him unconscious and nearly killed him. He required emergency surgery for a cavernous angioma caused by a tangle of blood vessels in his brain. The game was suspended with the Astros ahead 4-1, it was not completed until the Padres returned to Houston on July 23, after four weeks of recovery, he returned to the helm of the Astros and guided the team through the duration of the season. The Astros won 97 games and a third consecutive National League Central Division title, Dierker penned a book entitled This Aint Brain Surgery, which detailed his baseball career as a pitcher and a manager. He later wrote My Team, in which he ruminated on the greatest players he had been witness to in his years of baseball, larry Dierker Oral History, Houston Oral History Project, July 14,2008
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Skip Schumaker
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Schumaker graduated from Aliso Niguel High School before a short, two-year career at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2001, his year with regular playing time, Schumaker had 100 total hits for a batting average of an even.400. He was selected in the 5th round of the 2001 MLB Draft by the St. Louis Cardinals, Schumaker spent the remainder of 2001 with the short-season New Jersey Cardinals, and in 2002 he had 158 hits for the Potomac Cannons. His minor-league career advanced from Single-A in 2003, when he was promoted to the Tennessee Smokies, a.316 batting average in 2004 was enough to give him a shot with the Cardinals during spring training in 2005. After spending the first two months of the season in Memphis, Schumaker made his debut on June 8 against the Boston Red Sox at Busch Stadium. Schumaker entered the game as a pinch-hitter for the pitcher, Chris Carpenter, Schumaker remained with the club until June 14, failing to pick up a hit in five at bats. On August 10, he was called back up to the Cardinals, on September 8,2005, Schumaker went over into the stands and made a great catch. In 27 Major League games of 2005, Schumaker batted.250 with an RBI, Schumaker hit his first Major League home run on April 5,2006, in a game against the Philadelphia Phillies. He played in 28 regular-season games in 2006 for St. Louis and he would still receive his first career championship ring as the Cardinals bested the Detroit Tigers in 5 games of the 2006 World Series. Schumaker became a capable leadoff hitter and a strong defensive outfielder with an above-average arm, however, he has difficulty against left-handers, from 2007 to 2009, he had a.210 batting average, a.278 on-base percentage, and a.226 slugging percentage against them. He had six hits in seven at bats against the New York Mets on July 26, the first Cardinal to do so since Terry Moore against the Boston Braves on September 5,1935. Combined, Schumaker and his teammate, Albert Pujols, were the first pair of Cardinals to hit five or more hits each since Charlie Gelbert and Taylor Douthit against the Chicago Cubs on May 16,1930. On February 9,2009, Cardinal 2nd baseman Adam Kennedy was released by the club, Schumaker, who played shortstop in high school and college began working out with Cardinals third base coach Jose Oquendo in spring training to prepare. Schumaker would go on to become the Cardinals starting second baseman during the 2009 season, on February 8,2010, Schumaker signed a two-year deal with the Cardinals worth $4.7 million, buying out his final arbitration years. On August 9,2010, Schumaker hit his first major league grand slam against the Cincinnati Reds, on August 23,2011, he made his major league pitching debut when he came in as a reliever in the top of the 9th. He faced 5 batters, striking out 2, walking 1 and he was added back to the 25-man roster for the 2011 World Series against the Texas Rangers and won his second championship title after the Cardinals won the series after a deciding 7 games. Schumaker signed another 2-year deal with the Cardinals on December 12,2011, on December 12,2012, the St. Louis Cardinals traded Schumaker to the Los Angeles Dodgers for minor league shortstop Jake Lemmerman. He played in 125 games for the Dodgers, hitting.263 and he also pitched two scoreless innings for the Dodgers during the season
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Connecticut Huskies
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The Connecticut Huskies, also known as the UConn Huskies, are the athletic teams of the University of Connecticut in the United States. The school is a member of National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I, the major sports at the university are football and mens and womens basketball, although many of the other sports have large followings and a tradition of success. UConn is one of only 15 universities in the nation that plays Division I FBS football, uConns womens teams are not known as the Lady Huskies, but simply as UConn Huskies, the same as the mens teams. UConns teams participate in the NCAAs Division I and in the American Athletic Conference for all sports except hockey, womens lacrosse. UConns football team participates in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the Huskies have been a member of the American since its founding in 1979 as the original Big East Conference, and are the only remaining charter member of that league. Since hockey is not sponsored by the American, the mens and womens programs are now members of Hockey East. Field Hockey and Womens Lacrosse are members of the new Big East, the club alpine skiing team competes in the United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association because of a stricter limit on NCAA skiing programs. Connecticut has won 21 NCAA team national championships.0 GPA, UConn is best known for having its mens and womens basketball teams consistently ranked in or near the top 10 in the nation in their respective divisions. The mens team won the NCAA Div, I title in 1999,2004, and 2011 under head coach Jim Calhoun, and 2014 under 2nd year head coach Kevin Ollie. Following the retirement of Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun, Kevin Ollie was appointed coach and was signed to a five-year deal in December 2012. The womens team, under coach Geno Auriemma, won the NCAA Div, I title in 1995,2000, 2002-2004,2009,2010, 2013-2016 including undefeated seasons in 1995,2002,2009,2010,2014, and 2016. Tamika Williams, Sue Bird, Asjha Jones, Swin Cash, Diana Taurasi, Maya Moore, as of 2009, UConn has officially become a Nike sponsored school, signing a 10-year, $46 million contract. The UConn baseball team is coached by Jim Penders and plays games at J. O. Christian Field. In 2010, the UConn baseball team set a record for wins in a season with 48. This eclipsed the mark of 39. The team played as the No.2 seed alongside No.1 Florida State, No.3 Oregon, the Huskies placed third in the regional with a 1–2 and played in front of 5,684 fans in their Friday opener against Oregon. The team finished the season ranked 22nd in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association poll, 23rd in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches poll, in the summer of 2010, Huskies George Springer and Matt Barnes were named to the Collegiate USA National Team. In 2011, UConn baseball was ranked 1st in the Big East Conference preseason poll, George Springer and Matt Barnes were named preseason Big East Player and Pitcher of the Year, respectively
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UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball
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The UNLV Runnin Rebels are a NCAA Division I mens basketball team who play at the Thomas & Mack Center or T-Mobile Arena in the Las Vegas suburb of Paradise, Nevada, United States. As of 2009, UNLV has the fourth-highest winning percentage in Division I history, ranking behind Kentucky, North Carolina and Kansas, UNLV is 33–19 all-time in the NCAA tournament with a 63.5 winning percentage. In July 2008, ESPNU named the program the eighth most prestigious collegiate basketball program in the nation since the 1984–85 season, in 1977, just seven years after joining Division I, The Rebels made the Final Four in a squad today known as the Hardway Eight. Ten years later, the made the Final Four with one loss. In 1990, UNLV won the NCAA Championship by beating Duke by a margin of 103–73, becoming the first team. Before becoming a powerhouse in the late 1970s, UNLV was often referred to as Tumbleweed Tech due to its relative obscurity. Led by famed coach Jerry Tarkanian, the Runnin Rebels were among the most exciting teams in the nation and they consistently led the nation in points scored, turnovers forced, and most importantly – wins. The Runnin Rebels were well known for going on long runs that turned close games into blowouts, Tarkanian was suspected of violating numerous NCAA regulations and was forced out in 1992 by then–president Robert Maxson. In 1998 Tarkanian received a $2.5 million out of court settlement when he sued the NCAA for violations stemming from its investigation of UNLV. On November 26,2005, for his achievements as coach of the Runnin Rebels, the last Rebel squad coached by Tarkanian won their tenth consecutive Big West Conference regular season title, but was barred from the NCAA Tournament due to probation. The Rebels had actually been barred from the 1991 Tournament only months after winning the title, the years after Tarkanians departure were tumultuous. UNLV hired former Villanova coach Rollie Massimino to replace Tarkanian, but after a 15–13 season in 1993–94, the community was outraged to discover that Massimino had been awarded a secret contract — a deal that ultimately led to Maxsons departure from UNLV. Massimino was replaced by well–respected Tarkanian assistant Tim Grgurich, but he lasted just 7 games in 1994 before resigning. Howie Landa and Cleveland Edwards finished the 1994–95 season, which ended with a 12–16 record—the schools first losing season in 34 years, the team hired UMass assistant Bill Bayno for the 1995–96 season. With a still-depleted roster, Baynos first year ended with a 10–16 record, however, Bayno engineered a very quick return to respectability. He was an excellent recruiter, bringing in future NBA talent including Shawn Marion, Tyrone Nesby, the Rebels returned to the NCAA Tournament in 1997, their first appearance in six years. Bayno was let go in 2000, after the NCAA found that UNLV had violated rules while recruiting Lamar Odom, Odom ultimately chose Rhode Island over UNLV. It was in the wake of Bayno that UNLV began looking for a coach to act as an anchor for the program
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Ben Howland
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Benjamin Clark Howland is an American college basketball coach for the Mississippi State Bulldogs and former player. Howland became the first mens coach in college basketball history to be fired shortly after winning an outright power-conference title. He is one of the few NCAA Division I coaches to take three different teams to the NCAA tournament, Northern Arizona, Pittsburgh, and UCLA. Born in Lebanon, Oregon, Howland first attended Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California, for a year transferred to Cerritos High School in Cerritos. While at Cerritos, he was a two-time All-CIF and two-time Suburban League Most Valuable Player in basketball, after high school Howland played college basketball for Santa Barbara City College then transferred to Weber State College in Ogden, Utah, a member of the Big Sky Conference. Known as a defensive specialist, he played professional basketball in Uruguay. He earned a degree in physical education at Weber State. 1972-73, Dos Pueblos High School, Goleta, California 1973-76, Cerritos High School, Cerritos, California 1976-78, Santa Barbara City College, led the Vaqueros to California State finals in 1978. 1978-80, Weber State College, named WSCs defensive MVP both years and led Wildcats to consecutive Big Sky titles and NCAA Tournament appearances in 1979 and 1980,1980, Played professionally in Bohemios First Division Uruguay, South America. Howland wanted to be a coach since his years living in Santa Barbara. At the age of twenty-four, he became an assistant at Gonzaga. His childhood friend Jay Hillock, the new coach, recruited Howland. At Gonzaga, one of Howlands duties was to guard future NBA all-star John Stockton in practice, after a year at Gonzaga, Howland got his first paid coaching job at the University of California, Santa Barbara as an assistant coach to Ed DeLacy. After Jerry Pimm replaced DeLacy in 1983, Howland helped Pimm lead the Gauchos to five appearances between 1988 and 1994. Starting in 1992, Howland applied for head coaching jobs at UC Irvine, Howlands first head coaching job was at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Under Howland, Northern Arizona captured the Big Sky Conference Championship in the 1996-97 season and he then led the Lumberjacks to the Big Sky Tournament Championship the following year, sending them to the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history. While at NAU, he was considered for head coaching jobs at UC Irvine again and at UCSB and he later ended up replacing Ralph Willard at the University of Pittsburgh, a member of the Big East Conference. He also took Pitt to three straight Big East Championship games, winning the 2003 tournament title, the first in school history, in 2002, Howland also earned several national coach-of-the-year awards
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UCLA Bruins men's basketball
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The UCLA Bruins mens basketball program represents the University of California, Los Angeles in mens college basketball. Established in 1919, UCLA has won a record 11 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championships, UCLA teams coached by John Wooden won 10 national titles in 12 seasons, from 1964 to 1975, including seven straight from 1967 to 1973. UCLA went undefeated a record four times, in 1964,1967,1972, Coach Jim Harrick led the team to another NCAA title in 1995. Former coach Ben Howland led UCLA to three consecutive Final Four appearances from 2006 to 2008, UCLA won 13 consecutive regular season conference titles between 1967 and 1979, an NCAA record they currently share with Kansas, whose streak is currently active. On March 30,2013, Steve Alford was named the schools 13th head mens basketball coach, UCLA mens basketball has set several NCAA records. 11 NCAA titles 7 consecutive NCAA titles 12 NCAA title game appearances*10 consecutive Final Four appearances 25 Final Four wins*38 game NCAA Tournament winning streak 134 weeks ranked No, cozens coached the basketball team for two seasons, finishing with an overall record of 21–4. Caddy Works was the coach of the Bruins from 1921 to 1939. Works was a lawyer by profession and coached the only during the evenings. According to UCLA player and future Olympian Frank Lubin, Works was more of a coach with little basketball knowledge. Wilbur Johns was the UCLA basketball head coach from 1939 to 1948, from 1948 to 1975, John Wooden, nicknamed the Wizard of Westwood, served as head coach at UCLA. He won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period, seven of those in a row, within this period, his teams won a mens basketball-record 88 consecutive games. Prior to Woodens arrival, UCLA had only won two championship seasons in the previous 18 years. By 1962, with the no longer in place, Wooden had returned the Bruins to the top of their conference. This time, however, they would take the next step, a narrow loss, due largely to a controversial foul call, in the semifinal of the 1962 NCAA Tournament convinced Wooden that his Bruins were ready to contend for national championships. The result was a increase in scoring, giving UCLA a powerhouse team that went undefeated on its way to the schools first basketball national championship. Woodens team repeated as champions the following season before the 1966 squad fell briefly. UCLA was ineligible to play in the NCAA tournament that year, in January 1968, UCLA took its 47-game winning streak to the Astrodome in Houston, where Lew Alcindor squared off against Elvin Hayes in the Game of the Century before a national television audience. Houston upset UCLA 71-69 as Hayes scored 39 points, in a post-game interview, Wooden said, We have to start over
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Jamie Dixon
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James Patrick Dixon II is an American basketball coach and the current head coach of the TCU Horned Frogs mens basketball team. He previously served as the coach of the University of Pittsburgh mens basketball team from 2003 through 2016. In 2009 he was the coach for the FIBA Under-192009 gold-medal winning United States national basketball team for which he was named the 2009 USA Basketball National Coach of the Year. Dixon began his career in 1989 as the head coach at Te Aute College. He then became an assistant coach at UC-Santa Barbara and then at the University of Hawaii, Dixon then served as an assistant under Ben Howland at Northern Arizona University. After a brief stint as an assistant at Hawaii under Riley Wallace, Dixon was promoted as Pittsburghs head coach when Howland left for UCLA following the 2002–03 season. In 13 years at Pitt, Dixon had a record of 328–123 and he won 188 games in his first seven seasons, tying the NCAA Division I record for most wins in the first seven seasons of a head coaching career. He was awarded the Naismith College Coach of the Year honors following the 2008–09 season, Dixon won Big East Coach of the Year honors in 2004 for leading Pitt to a school-record 31 wins and the Big East regular season championship. He took Pitt to the game of the Big East Mens Basketball Tournament in 2004,2006,2007 and 2008. He is Pitts first and only coach to guide the Panthers to seven consecutive NCAA tournament appearances. His success at Pitt continued through the 2010 season, perhaps his best coaching performance to date. The Panthers tied for place in the Big East and earned a No.2 seed in the Big East Tournament. He is the first and only coach in Pitts history to lead his team to seven consecutive NCAA tournament appearances. At the end of the 2010 season, Dixon is the winningest coach in Big East history with a current.721 winning percentage in eight seasons of league games and he also stands second on Pitts all-time wins list, behind only the legendary Doc Carlson. On March 31,2010, Pitt extended Dixons contract by two years, which make him Pitts head coach through the 2017–18 season. On April 2,2010, Dixon was named the Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year by CollegeInsider. com, on October 23,2010, Dixon received national attention when he assisted in removing victims from a severe car accident in a Pittsburgh suburb. On December 22,2010, Dixon won his 200th game with a 61-46 win over American. With the victory, Dixon tied the all-time NCAA Division I record held by Mark Few, the achievement of winning his first 200 out of 255 games also ranked Dixon among the all-time top-15 for the quickest coaches to achieve 200 victories in regards to total number of games played
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Pittsburgh Panthers men's basketball
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The Pittsburgh Panthers mens basketball is the NCAA Division I intercollegiate mens basketball program of the University of Pittsburgh, often referred to as Pitt, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Pitt mens basketball competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Panthers were retroactively recognized as the pre-NCAA Tournament national champion twice by the Helms Athletic Foundation, on March 28,2016, the school announced the hiring of Kevin Stallings as coach after the departure of Jamie Dixon. The University of Pittsburgh began playing basketball in 1905–06 under coach Benjamin Printz. The University did not field a team during the 1909–10 and 1910–11 seasons, flint led the Panthers to eight winning seasons during his ten years at the helm and coached future Pitt coach H. C. Henry Clifford Doc Carlson, MD took over as coach in 1922 and those teams were led by National Player of the Year, 3-time All-American and Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Charlie Hyatt. Carlson was a coach who would be inducted into the Naismith. He also developed the widely emulated Figure Eight Offense and also experimented with various conditioning techniques, under Carlson, and led by two-time All-American Claire Cribbs, Pitt continued success through the 1930s winning four Eastern Intercollegiate Conference Championships. On February 28,1940, Pitt played in the first ever televised basketball game, Carlson also led Pitt to its first ever NCAA appearance en route to the 1941 NCAA Final Four. Carlsons tenure at Pitts helm lasted for 30 consecutive years before he retired following the 1952–53 season, Pitt moved their competition into the Fitzgerald Field House in 1951, leaving the Pitt Pavilion, housed inside of Pitt Stadium. Pitt would continue to play in the Fieldhouse until 2002, timmons also led Pitt to an NCAA appearance in 1963 and its first NIT appearance in 1964. Timmons was succeeded by head coach Charles Buzz Ridl who became famous for his amoebe defense, with All-American Billy Knight, Ridl led Pitt to the Elite Eight in 1974, with early round victories over St. Josephs and Furman. Pitt lost to national champion North Carolina State in the Eastern Regional Final played in Raleigh. Following the graduation of Knight and Martin, Pitt made an NIT appearance the following year, Pittsburgh native Tim Grgurich, who was an assistant coach under Ridl, became Pitts next head coach. He led Pitt into the inaugural 1976–77 season of the Eastern Collegiate Basketball League and that initial year, Larry Harris, a 66 forward with an impressive outside shot and an ability to score points in traffic, won the league scoring title. Grgurich also led Pitt to the 1980 NIT, Grgurich was succeeded by Lafayette coach Dr. Roy Chipman who began Pitts rollercoaster-like ride back to national significance. In his first season at the helm, the Panthers won the Eastern Eight Conference Tournament, in the 1981 NCAA Tournament, Pitt defeated Idaho in overtime in the first round, they lost to North Carolina in the second round. Chipmans Panthers enjoyed similar success the season, defeating archrival West Virginia for their last Eastern Eight Tournament Championship
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Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball
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The Ohio State mens basketball team represents The Ohio State University in NCAA Division I college basketball competition. The Buckeyes are a member of the Big Ten Conference, the Buckeyes won their only National Championship in 1960 and have made a total of 27 NCAA Tournament appearances. The Buckeyes share a rivalry with the Michigan Wolverines, in which OSU has an 93–71 series lead. The Ohio State University is one of two teams to make an NCAA tournament appearance every decade since the 1930s. The Buckeyes play their games at Value City Arena in The Jerome Schottenstein Center which opened in 1998. The official capacity of the center is 19,200, Ohio State ranks 18th in the nation in average home attendance. Thad Matta was named the coach of Ohio State in 2004 to replace coach Jim OBrien after being involved in supposed NCAA violations which cost Ohio State over 113 wins between 1998 and 2002. The first basketball team at The Ohio State University was formed in 1898, sparing success followed the Buckeyes throughout their time as an independent school. In the year 1912, some thirteen years after forming their first basketball team, the Buckeyes joined the Big Nine Conference, the Olsen era is also highlighted by appearing in the final game for the first ever NCAA Championship Tournament in 1939 where the Buckeyes lost to Oregon 33–46. The Buckeyes would make three more Final Four appearances under Olsen, along with winning five Big Ten championships, following Harold Olsen as head coach Tippy Dye and Floyd Stahl made their stints with the Buckeyes. While not seeing the amount of success as Olsen did, Dye. Of all other Buckeye coaches, it was Fred Taylor who would give Ohio State basketball its greatest claim to fame, with the hiring of Taylor in 1958, not much was expected following an 11–11 season during the 1958–1959 season. However, in 1960, the second coach, Taylor. The 1960 championship season is the only NCAA Tournament championship that the Buckeyes have compiled since that date, Taylors Buckeyes continued their dominance by being the runner-up the following two seasons, and making a total of five tournament appearances during Taylors 18 seasons tenure. With the departure of his team, Taylor began to see teams accustomed to Ohio State basketball of the past. Taylors last season at Ohio State in 1976 saw the Buckeyes going 6–20, Taylor also achieved seven conference titles and an impressive overall winning percentage of over 65%. Past the Taylor era, Ohio State saw Eldon Miller, Gary Williams, between 1976 and 1997 the Buckeyes made the NCAA Bracket only eight times, while being crowned conference champions only twice. In 1997, Jim OBrien was hired to head coach Randy Ayers
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Florida Gators men's basketball
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The Florida Gators mens basketball team represents the University of Florida in the sport of basketball. The Gators compete in NCAA Division I and the Southeastern Conference and they play their home games in the Exactech Arena at the Stephen C. OConnell Center on the universitys Gainesville, Florida campus, and are led by head coach Mike White, the Florida Gators mens team annually plays an eighteen-game conference schedule that is preceded by an out-of-conference schedule that includes an annual game against in-state rival Florida State. Their conference schedule consists of a pair of games against five SEC teams. Historically, the Gators did not have significant rivals in mens basketball, since the late 1980s, however, Florida has built rivalries with Kentucky and Tennessee as the Gators have become consistent contenders for the Southeastern Conference championship. The modern University of Florida was created in 1905, when the Florida Legislature passed the Buckman Act, the first Gators basketball team compiled a 5–1 record, but the following three seasons were canceled during and immediately after World War I. The team was restarted for the 1919–20 season without a professional coach, head coach William G. Kline, who also coached the Florida Gators football team, led the Gators basketball team from 1920 to 1922. By the mid-1920s the team outgrew the University Gymnasium, so the university built another gym to hold the crowds of the student population. Dubbed the New Gym, the Gators played there until 1949, in December 1932, the University of Florida joined the Southeastern Conference as one of its thirteen charter members. The Gators spent most of the first half-century of SEC play in the half of the standings. They only finished higher than fourth twice between 1932–33 and 1979–80, cody had previously coached the Clemson and Vanderbilt basketball teams, Maurer had previously coached the Kentucky and Tennessee basketball squads. None of them were able to build the Gators into consistent contenders in conference play, in hopes of breathing life into the program, Florida hired Norm Sloan as its first full-time head coach for the 1960–61 season. He compiled a record of 85–63 in six seasons, including the Gators first two wins over long-dominant Kentucky in SEC play, sloans Gators did not receive a postseason tournament invitation during his tenure, however, until 1975 only the conference champion was guaranteed an NCAA bid. Nonetheless, according to Florida historian Norm Carlson, Sloan elevated the Gators basketball program from an intramural program, Sloan left Florida for his alma mater, North Carolina State, after the 1965-66 season. Tommy Bartlett succeeded Sloan as head coach in 1966–67 and his Gators experienced initial success during his first three seasons, finishing second, fifth and third respectively in SEC play. His first team notched the schools first 20-win season, a sweep by Tennessee left them one game short of their first SEC title. Led by center Neal Walk and forward Andy Owens, the received a bid to the 1969 National Invitation Tournament—the first postseason tournament invitation in team history. Bartlett could not sustain the level of talent in recruiting, john Lotz, a respected assistant under North Carolinas Dean Smith, succeeded Bartlett in 1973–74
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Indiana Pacers
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The Indiana Pacers are an American professional basketball team based in Indianapolis. The Pacers compete in the National Basketball Association as a club of the leagues Eastern Conference Central Division. The Pacers were first established in 1967 as a member of the American Basketball Association and they play their home games at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. The team is named after Indianas history with the Indianapolis 500s pace cars, the Pacers have won three championships, all in the ABA. The Pacers were Eastern Conference champions in 2000, the team has won nine division titles. Five Hall of Fame players – Reggie Miller, Chris Mullin, Alex English, Mel Daniels, in early 1967, a group of six investors pooled their resources to purchase a franchise in the proposed American Basketball Association. For their first seven years, they played in the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum, in 1974, they moved to the plush new Market Square Arena in downtown Indianapolis, where they played for 25 years. Early in the Pacers second season, former Indiana Hoosiers standout Bob Slick Leonard became the head coach. Leonard quickly turned the Pacers into a juggernaut and his teams were buoyed by the great play of superstars such as Mel Daniels, George McGinnis, Bob Netolicky, Rick Mount and Roger Brown. The Pacers were – and ended – as the most successful team in ABA history, in all, they appeared in the ABA Finals five times in the leagues nine-year history, a feat that was never bettered by any other ABA franchise. The Pacers were one of four ABA teams that joined the NBA in the ABA–NBA merger in 1976, for the 1976–77 season the Pacers were joined in the merged league by the Denver Nuggets, New York Nets, and San Antonio Spurs. The league charged a $3.2 million entry fee for each former ABA team, as a result of the merger, the four teams dealt with financial troubles. Additionally, the Pacers had some financial troubles which dated back to their days in the ABA. The new NBA teams also were barred from sharing in national TV revenues for four years, the Pacers finished their inaugural NBA season with a record of 36–46. Billy Knight and Don Buse represented Indiana in the NBA All-Star Game, however, this was one of the few bright spots of the Pacers first 13 years in the NBA. During this time, they had only three non-losing seasons and only two playoff appearances, a lack of continuity became the norm for most of the next decade, as they traded away Knight and Buse before the 1977–78 season even started. They acquired Adrian Dantley in exchange for Knight, but Dantley was traded in December, while the Pacers second-leading scorer, the early Pacers came out on the short end of two of the most one-sided trades in NBA history. In 1980, they traded Alex English to the Nuggets in order to reacquire former ABA star George McGinnis, McGinnis was long past his prime, and contributed very little during his two-year return
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National Basketball Association
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The National Basketball Association is the major mens professional basketball league in North America, and is widely considered to be the premier mens professional basketball league in the world. It has 30 teams, and is a member of USA Basketball. The NBA is one of the four professional sports leagues in the United States. NBA players are the worlds best paid athletes by average annual salary per player, the league was founded in New York City on June 6,1946, as the Basketball Association of America. The league adopted the name National Basketball Association on August 3,1949, the leagues several international as well as individual team offices are directed out of its head offices located in the Olympic Tower at 645 Fifth Avenue in New York City. NBA Entertainment and NBA TV studios are directed out of offices located in Secaucus, the Basketball Association of America was founded in 1946 by owners of the major ice hockey arenas in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States and Canada. On November 1,1946, in Toronto, Canada, the Toronto Huskies hosted the New York Knickerbockers at Maple Leaf Gardens, the first basket was made by Ossie Schectman of the Knickerbockers. During its early years, the quality of play in the BAA was not significantly better than in competing leagues or among leading independent clubs such as the Harlem Globetrotters. For instance, the 1948 ABL finalist Baltimore Bullets moved to the BAA and won that leagues 1948 title, Following the 1948–49 season, the BAA took in the remainder of the NBL, Syracuse, Anderson, Tri-Cities, Sheboygan, Denver, and Waterloo. The new league had seventeen franchises located in a mix of large and small cities, as well as arenas and smaller gymnasiums. The process of contraction saw the leagues smaller-city franchises move to larger cities, the Hawks shifted from the Tri-Cities to Milwaukee in 1951, and then to St. Louis in 1955. The Rochester Royals moved from Rochester, New York, to Cincinnati in 1957, japanese-American Wataru Misaka broke the NBA color barrier in the 1947–48 season when he played for the New York Knicks. He remained the only player in league history prior to the first African-American, Harold Hunter. During this period, the Minneapolis Lakers, led by center George Mikan, won five NBA Championships, to encourage shooting and discourage stalling, the league introduced the 24-second shot clock in 1954. If a team does not attempt to score a goal within 24 seconds of obtaining the ball, play is stopped. In 1957, rookie center Bill Russell joined the Boston Celtics, who already featured guard Bob Cousy and coach Red Auerbach, and went on to lead the club to eleven NBA titles in thirteen seasons. Center Wilt Chamberlain entered the league with the Warriors in 1959 and became a dominant individual star of the 1960s, russells rivalry with Chamberlain became one of the greatest rivalries in the history of American team sports. The 1960s were dominated by the Celtics, led by Russell, Bob Cousy and coach Red Auerbach, Boston won eight straight championships in the NBA from 1959 to 1966
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Kristen Mann
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Kristen Cherie Mann is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA. Born in Lakewood, California on August 10,1983, Mann is the daughter of Kathy Deeds and she has two brothers, Mack and Guy, and one sister named Payton, all younger than her. She went to Foothill High School, playing basketball and softball. She played first and third base for her high school team. In basketball she holds 25 school records, and was a Nike All-American, Mann went to the UC Santa Barbara, alongside fellow WNBA player Lindsay Taylor, and graduated in 2005 with a degree in Womens Studies. She played basketball all four years at UCSB, and played softball for the 2003 season and she played first base and was a designated hitter with a batting average of.263 for the season. The Gauchos won the Big-West tournament championship in 2002–03, during the summer of 2003 Mann was a member of Team USA and helped win the gold medal in the inaugural FIBA World Championship for Young Women in Sibenik, Croatia. Source Following her collegiate career, she was selected 11th overall in the 2005 WNBA Draft, in her rookie season, Mann averaged 3.0 points and 7.7 minutes per game. In 2006, Mann was inserted into the starting line-up and averaged 7.4 points,3.4 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game, in 2007, Mann started 17 of the Lynx 34 games and posted career highs in scoring and rebounds. On February 6,2008 the Atlanta Dream selected Mann in their expansion draft and she was traded to Indiana midway through the 2008 season in exchange for Alison Bales. While a member of the Indiana Fever, she played in five games averaging just over 6 minutes player per game, former Lynx teammates Lindsey Harding and Eshaya Murphy joined Mann for training camping prior to the 2009 season. On June 4,2009, Mann was waived from the Mystics, Mann signed partway through the 2010 season with the Minnesota Lynx and would play a total of five games with them to finish out the season. She is also a singer/songwriter and has released recordings with Gabriel Mann, no relation, but was a college friend under the band name Sapphica
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Women's National Basketball Association
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The Womens National Basketball Association is a professional womens basketball league in the United States. It is currently composed of twelve teams, the league was founded on April 24,1996 as the womens counterpart to the National Basketball Association, and league play started in 1997. The regular season is played from June to September with the All Star game being played midway through the season in July, many WNBA teams have direct NBA counterparts and play in the same arena. The four aforementioned franchises, along with the Atlanta Dream and the Los Angeles Sparks, are all independently owned. The creation of the WNBA was officially approved by the NBA Board of Governors on April 24,1996, and announced at a conference with Rebecca Lobo, Lisa Leslie. The new WNBA had to compete with the recently-formed American Basketball League, while not the first major womens professional basketball league in the United States, the WNBA is the only league to receive full backing of the NBA. The WNBA logo, Logo Woman, paralleled the NBA logo and was selected out of 50 different designs. On the heels of a gold medal run by the 1996 USA Basketball Womens National Team at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. The first WNBA game featured the New York Liberty facing the Los Angeles Sparks in Los Angeles, the game was televised nationally in the United States on the NBC television network. Penny Toler scored the leagues first point, the WNBA centered its marketing campaign, dubbed We Got Next, around stars Rebecca Lobo, Lisa Leslie and Sheryl Swoopes. In the leagues first season, Leslies Los Angeles Sparks underperformed, the WNBAs true star in 1997 was WNBA MVP Cynthia Cooper, Swoopes teammate on the Houston Comets. The Comets defeated Lobos New York Liberty in the first WNBA Championship game, the initial We Got Next advertisement ran before each WNBA season until it was replaced with the We Got Game campaign. Two teams were added in 1998 and two more in 1999, bringing the number of teams in the league up to twelve and we expect to keep growing the league. In 1999, the chief competition, the American Basketball League. When a lockout resulted in an abbreviated NBA season, the WNBA saw faltering TV viewership, on May 23,2000, the Houston Comets became the first WNBA team to be invited to the White House Rose Garden. Before this invitation, only mens sports teams had traveled to the White House, at the end of the 2000 season, the Houston Comets won their fourth championship, capturing every title since the leagues inception. Led by the Big Three of Sheryl Swoopes, Tina Thompson, and four-time Finals MVP Cynthia Cooper, under head coach Van Chancellor, the team posted a 98–24 record through their first four seasons. After 2000, Cooper retired from the league and the Comets dynasty came to an end, the top contender in the 2001 season was the Los Angeles Sparks
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New York Liberty
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The New York Liberty is a professional basketball team based in New York City, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Womens National Basketball Association. The team was founded in 1997 and is one of the eight franchises of the league. The team is owned by The Madison Square Garden Company, who owns the Libertys National Basketball Association counterpart. Home games are played at Madison Square Garden in the borough of Manhattan, the Liberty have qualified for the WNBA Playoffs in fourteen of its twenty years. The franchise has been home to many players such as Teresa Weatherspoon, Becky Hammon, Leilani Mitchell, Essence Carson. They have the most appearances in the WNBA Finals without a championship, prior to the teams first season, to avoid potential trademark infringement, the team purchased the trademarks of the defunct Liberty Basketball Association. The adage always the bridesmaid, never the bride, could be used to describe the Liberty, when the WNBA opened in 1997, the Liberty was one of the first teams to choose a player, and they signed college superstar Rebecca Lobo to a contract. Lobo was a starter for two seasons but was injured in 1999, and her injuries eventually led to her retirement several seasons later. Point guard Teresa Weatherspoon emerged as a star and the Liberty made it to the 1997 championship game, in 1999, they added Crystal Robinson with the 6th overall pick and returned to the WNBA Finals, where they again faced Comets. In Game 2, Teresa Weatherspoons halfcourt shot at the buzzer gave the Liberty a one-point road win that tied the series, however, the Liberty lost the third game of the series and the Comets became champions for a third straight time. In 2000, the Liberty traded for Tari Phillips who blossomed in New York makinge four straight all-star teams, in 2001, Weatherspoon became the WNBAs all-time assist leader. 2003 marked a transition for the Liberty, with team leader Teresa Weatherspoons WNBA career winding down, the 2004 season saw Hammon replacing Weatherspoon at the teams starting point guard spot. Six games during the 2004 season were moved to Radio City Music Hall as Madison Square Garden was hosting the 2004 Republican National Convention and these games marked the first time Radio City had hosted a professional sporting event since the Roy Jones Jr. boxing match held in 1999. With team leader Tari Phillips being signed to the Houston Comets, however, she was injured midway through the season. The loss of Wauters was felt as the team was two games to none by the Indiana Fever in the first round of the playoffs. The Liberty saw a poor 2006 season, winning only 11 games, at the beginning of the 2007 WNBA season, the team traded Becky Hammon to the San Antonio Silver Stars for Jessica Davenport, a first round pick in the 2007 WNBA Draft. They also acquired center Janel McCarville through the dispersal draft associated with the dissolution of the Charlotte Sting, in the Eastern Conference semifinals, the Liberty, as huge underdogs, faced the defending champion Detroit Shock in a best-of-three series. The Liberty defeated the Shock by winning Game 1 in New York, in Games 2 and 3 the Liberty lost both games to the Shock in Detroit, 76–73 and 71–70 respectively
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2011 WNBA draft
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The 2011 WNBA draft is the leagues annual process for determining which teams receive the rights to negotiate with players entering the league. The draft was held on April 11,2011 at the ESPN studios in Bristol, the first round was shown on ESPN, while the second and third rounds were shown on NBA TV and ESPNU. The lottery selection to determine the order of the top four picks in the 2011 draft occurred on November 2,2010, the Minnesota Lynx won the first pick, while the Tulsa Shock, Chicago Sky and Lynx were awarded the second, third and fourth picks respectively. The remaining first-round picks and all the second- and third-round picks were assigned to teams in order of their win-loss records in the previous season. Unless indicated otherwise, all players listed are Americans who played at U. S. colleges, April 7,2010, Connecticut receives a second-round pick from Tulsa as part of the Chante Black/Amber Holt transaction. April 8,2010, Minnesota receives Connecticuts first-round pick and Tulsas second-round pick from Connecticut as part of the Kelsey Griffin transaction, may 13,2010, Chicago receives a second-round pick from Los Angeles as part of the Kristi Toliver transaction. May 27,2010, Tulsa receives a second-round pick from Indiana as part of the Shavonte Zellous transaction, july 23,2010, Tulsa receives a first-round pick from Phoenix as part of the Kara Braxton/Nicole Ohlde transaction
College sports teams based in California