They called the team the Jetsons because of the contract as the city had managed to manufacture the Boeing 2707. Boeing 2702 is the first supersonic aircraft manufactured in America (ultimately canceled). It was the first professional franchise city in the state of Washington. They started playing in October 1967, coached by Al Bianchi, and counting on the team with the base all star Walt Hazzard and members of the Team of rookies Bob Rule and Al Tucker.

Despite this, his first season in the league was considered a failure at the end with 23 games won and 59 lost. The following season Hazzard was traded to the Atlanta Hawks in exchange for future member of the Hall of Famer Lenny Wilkens. This player game reinforced the perimeter of the Sonics, averaging 22.4 points, 8.2 assists and 6.2 rebounds per game in the 1968-69 season. Rule, meanwhile, improved obviously his rookie statistics, getting 24 points and 11.5 rebounds per game. However, the Sonics won only 30 games all season and was replaced by Wilkens Bianchi on the bench at the end of it.

Yonex Company, Limited founded in 1946, is a company Japan based in Tokyo, specializing in items of sports. In 1946, Minoru Yoneyama founded the Yoneyama Company, Ltd.., a company that produces floats timber and fishing nets. Its craft production in wood prosperous few years until the modern advances, including floats in plastic, forces the company to stop production.

At this point, frustrated to be set aside by the latest technology, Yoneyama promised not to fall behind technologically. Thus, he began an engagement which ultimately led to breakthroughs in the world of golf, the tennis, and badminton. Building on the strengths of wooden handicrafts, the company operates in the manufacture of rackets of badminton under the name of other brands.

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In 1961, the first racket of badminton brand Yoneyama is introduced. Two years later, Yoneyama Trading, Ltd.. was created in Tokyo to distribute rackets at International. The commitment of society to innovation has attracted considerable attention in 1968 when Yoneyama introduced the first racket of badminton in aluminum, the “# 7000″. In 1969, the company diversified its production and launches into the industry rackets of tennis.

In 1973, the company presents its new logo with the color combinations blue and green. A year later, the company name change and officially became Yonex. In 1980, Yonex introduced the first lightweight racquet, the “Carbonex 8″. Two years later, following the proper use of lightweight materials to build racquets, Yonex began exploring similar applications in golf clubs. In 1984, Yonex became the official sponsor of the All England Badminton Championships (Open in England).

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Building on the success of the isometric design in tennis, Yonex introduced in 1992 the first badminton racket isometric widebody, the “Isometric 500″. Yonex became the supplier of badminton official Olympics of 1992, in 1996, of 2000, of 2004 and those in Beijing in 2008 where 24 badminton medals were obtained with Yonex equipment, a feat no other sports manufacturer has achieved. In 2009, Yonex launched the “ArcSaber Z-Slash”, the first of a new generation of rackets. A year later, during tests in the Metropolitan Gymanasium of Tokyo, the speed of a spike of Malaysian Tan Boon Heong was recorded at 421 km/h. The speed record was certified by Guinness World Records on 8 March 2010 as the fastest smash in history.

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The Wigan Athletic Football Club is a club of football in England, the town of Wigan in Greater Manchester. It was founded in 1932 and plays in the Premier League English. In 2003, Wigan was promoted to the Football League Championship for the first time, and in 2005 finished second in that division which allowed the team to ascend to the Premier League for the first time in its history. The following season surprised to English football to reach the final of the Football League Cup and finish in the top 10 in the Premiership. From that season until this day have not lost the category.

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Wigan Athletic History:

The Wigan Athletic was founded in 1932 after he disappeared from the previous club in town, the Wigan Borough. The foundation of Wigan Athletic was the fifth attempt to establish a team in the city after the disappearance of Wigan County, Wigan Town, Town AFC, and the aforementioned Wigan Borough. The stadium Springfield Park, former home of Wigan Borough, was purchased by the sum of £ 2,850 and the team was chosen to participate in the Cheshire League.

In the early history of Wigan atheletic, his greatest joys came in the FA Cup. In the FA Cup in 1934-35, defeated Wigan Athletic 6-1 to Carlisle United in the first round, setting the record for the biggest victory of an amateur team to a professional team, a record not broken until today. In 1945 Wigan Athletic was chosen to play in another league, the Lancashire Combination, and in 1950 came close to being elected to participate in the Football League, but lost against Scunthorpe United by nine votes. In the FA Cup in 1953-54, Wigan played a game against Hereford United in front of 27,526 spectators, a record attendance in a game of two amateur teams in the amateur stage, and also a record for Wigan.

In the 1970s the Wigan Athletic was a founding member of the Northern Premier League. After failing 34 times their choice to play in the Football League, and even a controversial failed attempt to participate in the Scottish Second Division in 1972, Wigan was chosen to participate in the Football League as champion of the Northern Premier League in 1978, instead of Southport FC, who finished last in the Football League Fourth Division last season.

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Winnipeg Jets Logo – Winnipeg Jets is a professional team of ice hockey located in Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada). Play in the National Hockey League ( NHL), framed in the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference. His name is a reference to an old computer with the same name, Winnipeg Jets. This League franchise played in World Hockey Association from 1972 until 1979, when it was absorbed by the National Hockey League.

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Winnipeg Jets was one of four clubs happened to the NHL, where he remained until 1996. That year, the club was sold and moved to Phoenix, Arizona (United States) to become the Phoenix Coyotes. In May 2011, the local investor group True North Sports & Entertainment bought an NHL team, the Atlanta Thrashers, and moved to Winnipeg. The new club was called the Winnipeg Jets, in honor of the original franchise.

Before the creation of this franchise, the city of Winnipeg was represented in the professional leagues by Winnipeg Jets. The team was established in 1972 as one of the first 12 participants of the World Hockey Association, league aspiring to compete with the National Hockey League. During the brief existence of the tournament, the Jets were one of the most powerful clubs, with three league titles (1976, 1978 and 1979) and two second places (1973 and 1977). He also noted for being one of the first American club to track the European market.

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The WTA began in Houston , Texas USA. States. on September 23 of 1970 .

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Washington Nationals baseball franchise is the Major League Baseball based in Washington, DC since 2005. They operate in the National League. The Nationals have never played the World Series and remain one of the two formations of the current MLB (with the Seattle Mariners) never to have won a League title.

The franchise was founded in 1969 under the name of the Montreal Expos. After a decade of disappointing results, the team knows an upturn in the early 1980s, winning his only championship division in 1981. The Expos lost two finals of the National League 3-2 against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Low-performing during the late 1980s, then a rebound occurs at the beginning of the next decade with players like Larry Walker, Moises Alou, Marquis Grissom and Pedro Martínez. The division title obtained in 1981 had been achieved against a background of players’ strike; same pattern as in 1994. The Expos are leading their division when the season was halted due to strike. It does not repeat, frustrating the Expos who had previously aligned with the best results of the LMB. After the disappointment of 1994, the franchise began to lose players, fans and money.

Washington Capitals Logo – Washington Capitals is a team of professional ice hockey U.S. is established in Washington DC. It was founded in 1974 and is the team from the capital of the United States. He currently plays in the National Hockey League, established in the Southeast Division.

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Washington was, along with the Kansas City Scouts, one of two expansion franchises the NHL since the 1974-75 season. The owner of the team in his first season was Abe Pollin, who also owned the Washington Bullets of the NBA and who ordered the construction of the pavilion Capital Centre to house the two teams, while the first general manager of the club was Milt Schmidt. The Capitals told in the beginning with a staff of few experienced players in the league, and this was reflected in its first year of debut: a record of 8-67-5, the Capitals made ​​one of the worst releases of a team the NHL.

The run of poor results of the team continued in 1975-76, leading to string a run of 25 games without a victory. After several changes of general manager, coaches and players, the team began to experience a slight renovation. However, despite the team began to notice a slight improvement, the Capitals would not be classified in a playoff during the decade of 1970 and early 1980.

Vancouver Canucks is a professional team of ice hockey Canada which sits in the city of Vancouver (British Columbia). It was created in 1945 as an amateur team, and after passing through two minor league reached the National Hockey League in 1970. His nickname Canuck is a slang term used to refer to any individual in Canada. The team plays in the National Hockey League, framed in the Northwest Division.

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Although the Vancouver franchise entered the NHL in 1970, the city had its first professional team in 1911 : the Vancouver Millionaires, who got in its history five Stanley Cup, being the last one in 1915. When that team disappeared in 1926, the town had several minor league teams. One of them, the Vancouver Canucks, was established in 1945 as a whole amateur racing in the Pacific Coast Hockey League. In 1952 he joined the so-called Western Hockey League (not to be confused with the WHL professional), which won four titles in 1958, 1960, 1969 and 1970.

In 1967, a group of businessmen led by former Vancouver mayor Fred Hume, decided to submit a bid to clinch the championship expansion with the Canucks. However, the NHL rejected his proposal. Two years later, when the California Golden Seals going through economic problems, the Canucks made an offer to Californians to move the franchise to Canada which was also rejected by the league. Finally, Vancouver returned to make an offer to achieve the expansion franchise, with a budget of six million dollars. The NHL agreed and Vancouver Canucks debut in the 1970-71 season with Buffalo Sabres.

Download UEFA Champions League Logo – The Champions League Championship (official name in English: UEFA Champions League, also known as Spain and Latin America or just European Cup Champions) is the international tournament most important European football at club level organized by the Union of Associations European Football (UEFA).

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It was created in 1955/56 under the title European Champion Clubs Cup (original name in French: Coupe des Clubs Champions Européens), to face the champions of European football associations in their respective league championships. From season 1992/93 Champions League is named after the first introduction of league competition format in the quarter-final stage last season.

The winner of this competition dispute the European Super Cup UEFA and the FIFA Club World Cup. It is the competition between clubs with more prestige and media coverage of the world. It is held annually from June to May. The team is the defending champion FC Barcelona, who won his fourth title in the competition after beating Manchester United. The most titled club is Real Madrid with nine.

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Tottenham Hotspur Logo – The Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is a club of football in England, the municipality of Haringey in the city of London. It was founded in 1882 and plays in the Premier League English. His rival is the classic Arsenal, with whom dispute the North London derby. The club is called the Spurs for the fans. Tottenham Hotspur FC was founded in 1882. The club was founded on the initiative of the boys club cricket “Hotspur” and the local primary school. So at first the name of the club was “Hotspur FC”.

In 1883 the club is chaired by Mr. John Ripsher. The color of the club was by then dark blue. Although 7 years later, the shirt would change to red. And in 1884 the institution was renamed “Tottenham Hotspur Football and Athletic Club”. Three years later, comes the first classic, known as the North London derby against | Arsenal, then known as “Royal Arsenal”. The match was suspended due to darkness, with the “Spurs” winning 2-1. In 1888 the club moved to private lands in Northumberland Park.

In 1895 the institution became professional. The following year, some 6,000 spectators watched the friendly match against Aston Villa. The club is promoted to First Division of the League. In addition, there is another change of colors. Instead of red and blue becomes black and gold. A year later, he manages to reach a cup final for the first time, playing against the home team “Wellingborough” and losing 0-2 in the Charity Cup. And in 1898 the club became a limited company. A match against “Woolwich Arsenal” draws a crowd of 14,000 spectators. There is another change of color, white shirt and blue pants. In 1899 the club moved to White Hart Lane, where now stands.

In summer 2011 the club reached 3 major signings: goalkeeper American veteran Brad Friedel, midfielder Scott Parker and striker Emmanuel Adebayor. On the other hand would leave the club 7 players, of which two names that left their mark on White Hart Lane : former captain Robbie Keane, who joined Los Angeles Galaxy and the giant Peter Crouch, who left front squad to Stoke City, same computer that made ​​landfall Wilson Palacios and Jonathan Woodgate, who also dress in potters. Moreover players Alan Hutton and Jermaine Jenas signed him for Aston Villa, the latter on loan, and finally David Bentley also left the club to wear the shirt of West Ham on loan. The greatest joy for the hobby of Tottenham was the continuity of Croatian magician Luka Modric on the computer.