Sentence examples for team relocation from inspiring English sources
Stadium funding proposals are usually initially very unpopular and only after voters are subjected to repeated threats of team relocation and are bombarded with one-sided information from incredibly well-funded political campaigns designed to convince voters new stadiums are in their best interests.
Bettman said he has heard in the past from Portland, Houston and Las Vegas as possible sites for team relocations.
Not only has the NFL confronted the same labor and performance enhancing drug challenges other pro sports leagues have, it has also dealt with controversial team relocations (including moving the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore, renamed as the Ravens) and mounting concerns about player health and safety.
Ranadive's group wanted to protect themselves after the NBA halted the original plans for the teams relocation by a group of investors from Seattle.
In the Western Conference finals, Dallas faced Oklahoma City, a team whose relocation from Seattle he had tried to prevent.
Commissioner Bud Selig has called Washington the prime area for a team's relocation, but he has not said when he would permit a team to move there.
At the same time, he wanted star power to draw people into Barclays Center following the team's relocation from New Jersey to Brooklyn.
Brooklyn developed a natural rivalry with Manhattan's New York Giants following their move to the NL, which became one of the game's most renowned and enduring feuds, even after each team's relocation to California in 1958.
"They told us that they did not oppose the contraction of the Montreal Expos, as long as they got paid out, but that they did not want public blame for the team's relocation or contraction".
The future of the Nets will be debated at a meeting today of the YankeeNets holding company, a session that could set the stage for the team's relocation to New York.
It's worth remembering how every one of the unaccountable moneybags involved in the team's relocation acted like an appalling turd in perpetrating its heist on Seattle.
