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unusual facts about A Championship



2010 A Championship Cup

With the A Championship starting later than the League of Ireland, the A Championship Cup was a warm-up competition for the clubs involved.


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1938 Stanley Cup Finals

It was the last time that a Chicago team would win a championship at Chicago Stadium until the Bulls won their second straight NBA championship in 1992.

1983 NASL Grand Prix of Indoor Soccer

The tournament consisted of three weeks of round-robin play for the purpose of seeding, followed by a Championship weekend at the Forum in Montreal.

2008 Dutch Caribbean Age Group Championships

2008 Dutch Caribbean Age Group Championships is a championship for young Track & Field athletes of the islands of the Dutch Kingdom.

2010 Dutch Caribbean Age Group Championships

2010 Dutch Caribbean Age Group Championships is a championship for young Track & Field athletes of the islands of the Dutch Kingdom.

2010 Formula Abarth season

Brandon Maïsano, part of the Ferrari Driver Academy scheme and driving for BVM – Target Racing, won the Alboreto Trophy as overall champion, taking four victories and three second places for a championship-winning margin of 22 points over runner-up Patric Niederhauser of the Jenzer Motorsport team.

2010 IIHF World Championship Division III

The IIHF announced on February 5, 2010 that the Division III Group A championship would be moved from Athens, Greece to Kockelscheuer, Luxembourg after the Hellenic Ice Sports Federation announced they would not able to host the tournament after problems with government funding.

2012 Dutch Caribbean Age Group Championships

2012 Dutch Caribbean Age Group Championships is a championship for young Track & Field athletes of the islands of the Dutch Kingdom.

Andrew Simmons

On 16 November 2010, Simmons competed in a Championship Tournament for Fightstar Sports Entertainment's vacant All-Counties Championship at the Barrington Centre in Ferndown, Dorset.

Anne Nason

Anne Nason was a championship golf player for The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Asociación de Fútbol de Santiago

In the early twentieth century, in Santiago there did not exist any organization for the various college football clubs that were emerging and therefore no any football tournament was contested, unlike what happened in Valparaiso, where competitions were held by the Football Association of Chile since 1895 and there was a championship each year.

Benjamin Bellamy

When Northamptonshire played Surrey at Northampton in 1920 the match produced 1,475 runs (a championship record which stood for nearly seventy years), including a century in around 35 minutes by Percy Fender.

Bill Klem

Of the 16 major league teams in existence during his career, all but one—the St. Louis Browns, who would not win a pennant until 1944—appeared in a World Series that he officiated; the only other teams which did not win a championship with Klem on the field were the Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies (neither of which won a title during Klem's lifetime) and the Detroit Tigers.

Bishop Guilfoyle High School

The first was the District 6 single A championship, achieved at DeGol Arena on the Saint Francis University campus.

Brent Dancer

He is a midfielder and plays for the WA Thundersticks in the Australian Hockey League, whom he won a championship with in 2008.

Brock Williams

Because he was a member of the Patriots during their 2001 Super Bowl championship season, Williams received a championship ring, which he later famously pawned for $3,500 at the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop that is now featured on the TV series Pawn Stars and never picked it back up.

C. Fred Bergsten

Bergsten received a BA from Central Methodist University, during which time he was valedictorian of his class and a championship debater, and then earned MA, MALD, and PhD degrees from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Carlos Lisboa

He played at Queluz for the two following seasons, winning a Championship and a Cup of Portugal.

Colin Kazim-Richards

On 24 May 2013 it was announced that Sussex Police had charged Kazim-Richards under Section 5 of the Public Order Act over an alleged homophobic gesture to Brighton fans on 12 February 2013 while he was playing for Blackburn Rovers in a Championship match at his old club Brighton and Hove Albion's Amex Stadium.

Digard

DiGard Motorsports, a championship-winning race team in NASCAR Winston Cup

Edmonton Rustlers

In winter 1933, Lady Bessborough, the wife of Governor General of Canada Lord Bessborough donated a championship trophy for the Dominion Women’s Amateur Hockey Association.

Floyd Mayweather vs. Carlos Baldomir

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Carlos Baldomir, billed as Pretty Risky, was a championship unification fight for Mayweather's International Boxing Federation Welterweight title and Baldomir's World Boxing Council and The Ring (magazine) Welterweight titles.

Formula Ford 1600

The Historic Sports Car Club organises a championship for cars constructed before 1971, which also features a race at Croix-en-Ternois in France.

Handicap race

An example of a championship using this system is the International GT Open.

Heinz Murach

When he was the coach of Borussia, reputed players like Lothar Emmerich, Sigi Held and Reinhard Libuda played there and therefore they were a championship contender, but unfortunately, could not perform up to the mark.

Heracles Chariot Racing

The game features a Championship mode consisting of 3 cups with 10 tracks spread across 5 mythical environments (including Mount Olympus and Hades), as well as single race and Battle modes.

History of the United States men's national soccer team

This set up a championship match between the United States and Mexico at Soldier Field in Chicago.

Ignacio Uribe

He spent 10 seasons with Athletic Uribe during which he played over 211 games, winning a championship and three Copa del Rey and retired in 1963.

Jason Bailey

Although Bailey did not play a post-season game with the team, he received a championship ring and was said to be a huge locker-room presence by captain Ryan Keller.

Jay Nady

Jay Nady (born August 23, 1947) is a championship boxing referee and the uncle of Kansas City Royals outfielder Xavier Nady.

Jegs High Performance

The third generation is led by Troy Jr., already a multi-time national event winner in Super Comp, and Cody, a circle track phenom who already has a championship to his credit.

Jeremy Metcalfe

He also had a productive career in karting, taking the Parma Industrials Karting Championship, a championship that was previously won by Scuderia Ferrari reserve driver Giancarlo Fisichella.

João Luiz da Ros

Recently he participated in the 2011 Rugby World Cup qualification, were the "Vitória Régia" won Paraguay, ascending to the South American A Championship, and Caribbean Champions Trinidad and Tobago, though qualifying for the final round, where they were eliminated.

Larry Bud Wright

The Sheridan Blackhawks last played for the 2008 IHSAA Class A championship on Friday, November 28 in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana losing to Cardinal Ritter High School denying Wright from a 4th consecutive championship

Murdo MacKenzie

Mackenzie appears as a character in the fictional Scrooge McDuck comic book, The Buckaroo of the Badlands (1992), set in 1882, in which the poor, newly hired Scrooge, helped by Theodore Roosevelt, rescues a championship bull belonging to Mackenzie.

Pulong Buhangin National High School

Michelle Salinas won third in radio broadcasting group contest at the S.Y. 2006-2007 National Schools Press Conference held at Baguio City, just a year after Francisco Bautista won a championship title in the same contest.

Ricardo Chambers

He enjoyed success at the NACAC Under-23 Championships later that year, setting a championship record of 45.09 seconds to win the 400 m and anchoring the Jamaican 4×400 metres relay team of Huntley Thomas, Leford Green and Bryan Steele to a second gold medal and record.

Ronnie Magsanoc

Magsanoc played collegiate ball with Benjie Paras and Eric Altamirano for the University of the Philippines, where he won a championship in 1986, before moving on to play professional basketball in the Philippine Basketball Association.

Rosa Morató

Morató won her first international steeplechase medal at the 2010 Ibero-American Championships in San Fernando, Cádiz, where she defeated Zulema Fuentes-Pila to win the gold medal in a championship record.

Sallins

Sallins GAA has its grounds in the centre of the village which include a championship sized pitch, a modern club house and dressing rooms.

Satsuki Fujisawa

Fujisawa's junior career began with a championship at the 2008 Pacific Junior Curling Championships over China's Sun Yue.

Stepan Popel

In 1929, Popel won a championship of Lviv, followed by E. Kaufman, Henryk Friedman, Oskar Piotrowski, etc.

Stuart Brennan

Stuart was awarded a Championship belt and made an honorary World Champion by the World Boxing Council for his portrayal of Howard Winstone in 'Risen', a part for which he had to lose two stones.

U.S. Cellular Community Park

The USCCP Soccer field is a championship-sized field that plays host to the NPSL's Southern Oregon Fuego.