Sentence examples for team relocations from inspiring English sources

Bettman said he has heard in the past from Portland, Houston and Las Vegas as possible sites for team relocations.

From its point of view, Major League Baseball has always said the loss of the antitrust exemption would affect its minor league operations nationwide and create instability through team relocations, Gould said.

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.

Last year, the team introduced team relocation and rebranding.

This is the third NFL team relocation in 15 months.

In a recent poll conducted via Twitter, roughly 200 people responded to the question, "Which city should be at top of list for NBA team relocation?," and an overwhelming 90% chose Louisville over Seattle, Virginia Beach and other competing cities.

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.

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.

Both South Florida and Tampa Bay had fought for years to draw big-league baseball here, either by luring a failing team into relocations or through expansion, but neither team has built a loyal fan base, the key to survival.

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.