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First time the two teams played as leaders of their respective divisions Both teams won their division Both teams qualified for playoffs in the same season for the first time since 1906 First time the home team wins all games of the season series. 2009: White Sox: 4–2: White Sox, 2–1 White Sox, 2–1 White Sox 41–37
For the period when the tournaments overlapped between 1939 and 1948, Premo-Porretta ranked the NIT champion ahead of the NCAA champion twice (1939 and 1941) and the NCAA champion ahead of the NIT champion eight times. [28] Between 1939 and 1970, when teams could compete in either tournament, only DePaul (1945), [29] Utah (1947), [30] San ...
The first time the champions of two European leagues met was in what was nicknamed the 1895 World Championship, when English champions Sunderland beat Scottish champions Heart of Midlothian 5–3. [11] The first pan-European tournament was the Challenge Cup, a competition between clubs in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. [12]
Between the 1974 and 1995 seasons the numbers were based on the teams' finishing positions in the 1973 Constructors' Championship (with slight modifications, e.g. Ferrari's traditional numbers were 11–12 until 1980 and 27–28 from 1981 onwards) and each team only changed numbers if they had the driver who had won the World Drivers ...
The rivalry between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo between 2009 and 2018 has been the most competitive in El Clásico history, with both players being their clubs' all-time top scorers. In their period, many records were broken for both clubs; the two players alternated as top scorers in La Liga and the Champions League during most seasons ...
1989 to 1992 – AC Milan's assertion, and Barcelona's first title. In 1989, under the management of Arrigo Sacchi, Milan won the European Cup for the first time in 20 years, defeating 1986 champions Steaua București 4–0 in the final. In 1990, Milan retained their title, defeating Benfica 1–0 in Vienna.
The Soviet Union entered teams of athletes who were all nominally students, soldiers, or working in a profession, but all of whom were in reality paid by the state to train on a full-time basis. [ 176 ] [ 179 ] [ 180 ] The situation greatly disadvantaged American and Western European athletes, and was a major factor in the decline of American ...
The Milwaukee Brewers, an American League team between 1969 and 1997, and the Houston Astros, a National League team between 1962 and 2012, are the only franchises to play in both the ALCS and NLCS. The Astros are the only team to have won both an NLCS and an ALCS (2017, 2019, 2021, and 2022). The Astros made four NLCS appearances before moving ...