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The Arizona Sandsharks played in the Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL) from 1992 until 1997 when the league folded. Charter members of the CISL, they were the city's first indoor soccer team since the Phoenix Inferno of the Major Indoor Soccer League. The Sandsharks...

The Chicago Owls were established in 1967 and played in the Professional Football League of America (PFLA). In 1968, several PFLA teams, including the Owls, joined the Continental Football League (CoFL). The Owls moved into Soldier Field, while the NFL Bears were still playing...

He's not pulling the strings, he's shredding them to save Hawkins.

The Grand Rapids Rampage played in??the Arena Football League??from 1998 to 2001. Their home field was the Van Andel Arena. They won the league's championship, the Arena Bowl, in 2001 but folded with the rest of the original league in 2009.??

The Colorado Crush was the city of Denver's second foray into the Arena Football League. They played from 2003 to 2008. Their home field was the Pepsi Center (now Ball Arena). The city's first Arena Football League Team was the Denver Dynamite.??

The Toronto Phantoms played in the Arena Football League??from 2001 to 2002. The team started in 1997 as the New York CityHawks. In 1999, the team moved to Hartford and became the New England SeaWolves, before moving to Ontario in 2001.

Ground was broken for Old Indiana Fun Park in 1973, but the park didn't open for another ten years, first as??Middle Country Renaissance Festival. It ran for six weekends until the end of the first weekend of October 1983. Construction of a ride park...

The original Minnesota Fighting Saints were charter members of the World Hockey Association in 1972. The team played its home games in St. Paul, while the rival NHL Minnesota North Stars played in suburban Bloomington. The Fighting Saints folded halfway through the 1975-76 season....

Cleveland's first independent TV station was WKBF, Channel 61, which began broadcasting on January 19, 1968. Competition from Cleveland's second independent TV station, WUAB Channel 43, combined with a soft economy, set the stage for a merger of the two stations with the channel...

Long before serving in Congress from 1997 to 2013, Dennis Kucinich was mayor of Cleveland from January 1978 to November 1979. His brief but controversial tenure included a battle with one of the area's major utilities as well as the city declaring bankruptcy. He...

Following the demise of the Indianapolis Racers in 1978, the Indianapolis Checkers were formed, joining the CHL in 1979. In 1984, they moved to the IHL, moving to Denver after the 1987 season.

Youngstown native Bernie Kosar played for the Browns from 1985 to 1993 and remains one the teams most beloved stars. Beginning with his rookie season in 1985, he led the Browns to five straight play-off appearances including the AFC Conference Championship game in 1986,...

It was Willard Mullin, a noted sports cartoonist, who affectionately dubbed the Brooklyn Dodgers with the nickname "Dem Bums".

The Portland Storm played in the World Football League (WFL) in 1974. Playing their home games at old Civic Stadium, the Storm finished with 7 wins, 12 losses, and 1 tie. The GM was former AFL great Ron Mix, and the head coach was...

Known as "The Wonderland of the Pacific Northwest" Lotus Isle amusement park opened in the summer of 1930 on Hayden Island. After a roller coaster accident and the suicide of the park's owner, it closed in 1932.

The Cleveland Rebels played in the Basketball Association of America,??forerunner of the NBA, for the 1946/47 season. The city would return to the NBA fold in 1970 with the formation of the Cavaliers.

The city's almost NFL team in 1995. Abandoned by the Colts in the middle of the night in 1984, Baltimore tried for years to either lure an existing team to town or get an expansion team. In 1993, the city came close to the...

??Founded as the Washington Darts in 1967, this outdoor soccer team was a originally a member of the original American Soccer League. In 1969 they joined the North American Soccer League. In 1972 they moved to Miami and became the Gatos. The following year...

Charter members of the World Hockey Association (WHA), the New York franchise began as the Raiders. Before the start of their second season, they became the Golden Blades. After only 20 games, they were taken over by the league and moved to Cherry Hill,...

???The Olympic Drive-In on St. Charles Rock Road in the County has been the target of frequent raids by police and of a newly formed decent films committee in an attempt to close the theatre for allegedly showing obscene films," said a newspaper report...

Vancouver was the the third stop for the charter member of the World Hockey Association (WHA), who began as the Miami Screaming Eagles. The team never played in South Florida and instead moved to Pennsylvania and became the Philadelphia Blazers before the WHA's inaugural...

Developed in 1986 by Konami, Double Dribble was one of the first video games to successfully resemble a physical sport. It debuted in arcades and was later offered in a home version for various gaming systems.

A downtown favorite, Fat Frank's, located in the U.S. Steel Building, served a big wiener on a nice bun. They served up their last dog in 2003.

The Pittsburgh Hardhats played in the??American Professional Slo-Pitch League (APSPL) from 1977 to 1980. The league sought to capitalize on the popularity??of softball as recreational??sport by turning it into a professional spectator sport. Several teams featured several Major League Baseball players??on their rosters.

It's really, really yours! The gift every kid wants for Christmas. A Red Ryder tee or sweatshirt. At least that's the story.

Ziegy's Bar-B-Q was located at 2164 South Emerson in Indianapolis. For a generation it was one of the top barbecue joints in the city. It closed in 1977 and the site has since become a gas station and convenience store.

The Chicago Enforcers??represented the Windy City in the short-lived XFL. The league was a joint venture between NBC and the World Wrestling Federation (now the WWE) but disbanded after its one and only season in 2001.

Splendid China was a restaurant and theme park in Four Corners, FL, near Kissimmee just off US-192/Irlo Bronson Hwy. It opened in 1993, and it's 75 acres featured??more than 60 one-tenth scale replicas of famous and not-so-famous Chinese buildings and landmarks. Each piece was...

Lakeside Park on Dayton's West Side was established in 1887 as a picnic grove. By the 1890s, the land at the corner of South Gettysburg Ave. and Lakeside Dr. had developed into an amusement park. It closed in 1967 and in 1996 the US...

Higbee's was a department store founded in 1860 in Cleveland. It almost went out of business during the Great Depression, but reorganized and became quite successful after World War II. In the 1950s and 1960s, suburban were locations were added at the new shopping...