High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1980 Federation Cup was the 18th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women`s tennis. The tournament was held at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in West Berlin, West Germany, from 19–25 May. The United States won their fifth consecutive title, defeating Australia in their tenth and record eighth consecutive final.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1980 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. Coached by Bo Schembechler, Michigan won the Big Ten Conference championship with a record of 10–2 (8–0 in conference) and defeated the Washington Huskies in the 1981 Rose Bowl game, 23–6. After starting the season 1–2 with a narrow victory over Northwestern and losses to Notre Dame and South Carolina, the 1980 season looked like it would be disappointment. A quarterback controversy concerning the choice of Rich Hewlett to start the season over the popular John Wangler added to the early-season turmoil. However, the defense gathered strength over the course of...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1980 Toronto Blue Jays season was the franchise`s fourth season of Major League Baseball. It resulted in the Blue Jays finishing seventh in the American League East with a record of 67 wins and 95 losses. The season represented a turning point as Bobby Mattick became the second field manager in franchise history.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1980 IndyCar season, the second in the CART era of U.S. open-wheel racing, consisted of 12 races, beginning in Ontario, California on April 13 and concluding in Avondale, Arizona on November 8. The PPG Indy Car World Series Drivers` Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner was Johnny Rutherford. Rookie of the Year was Dennis Firestone. The entire season, including the 64th Indianapolis 500, was to be co-sanctioned by the both the USAC and CART, however the USAC withdrew from the agreement after the fifth race.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1980s professional wrestling boom was a surge in the popularity of professional wrestling in the United States throughout the 1980s. The expansion of cable television and pay-per-view, coupled with the efforts of promoters such as Vince McMahon, saw professional wrestling shift from a system controlled by numerous regional companies to a system dominated by two nationwide companies: Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment). The decade also saw a considerable decline in the power of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), a cartel which had until then domineered the wrestling landscape, and in the efforts to...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1980s in video gaming were a decade of some notable events and releases such as the crash of 1983. The decade was dominated by both Nintendo and Sega and their consoles. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The National Football League (NFL) playoffs are a single-elimination tournament held at the end of the 16-game regular season to determine the NFL champion. Six teams from each of the league's two conferences qualify for the playoffs based on regular season records, and a tie-breaking procedure exists in the case of equal records. It ends with the Super Bowl, the league's championship game, which matches the two conference champions. NFL post-season history can be traced to the first NFL Championship Game in 1933, though in the early years, qualification for the game was based solely on regular season records. The first true NFL playoff began in 1967,...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The season 1980–81 of the European Cup football club tournament was won for a third time by Liverpool in the final against Real Madrid. In eleven seasons up to and including this one, there were only four winners of the European Cup (Ajax, Bayern Munich, Nottingham Forest and Liverpool), but there were eleven different runners up. This record would have continued into the next year as well, but Bayern lost to first time finalists Aston Villa. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1980-81 Rugby Football League season was the 86th ever season of professional rugby league football in Britain. Sixteen teams competed from August, 1980 until May, 1981 for the Slalom Lager Championship. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1980-81 NHL season was the 64th season of the National Hockey League. Twenty-one teams each played 80 games. This was the first season that the Calgary Flames played in Calgary, Alberta. Previously, they were the Atlanta Flames and played in Atlanta, Georgia. The New York Islanders won their second consecutive Stanley Cup, defeating the Minnesota North Stars in 5 games. The most notable individual performer was Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers, who broke Bobby Orr's single season assist record and Phil Esposito's point mark for a new record of 164 points, winning his second of an unmatched eight straight Hart Trophies as the league's most valuable player. Данное издание...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1980-81 Montreal Canadiens season was the club's 72nd season of play. The Canadiens lost just once in their last twenty-seven home games. The Canadiens would earn at least 100 regular season points for the seventh consecutive season. Montreal qualified for the playoffs and were eliminated in the NHL's Preliminary round by the Edmonton Oilers three games to none. Four days after the Canadiens were eliminated, head coach Claude Ruel resigned. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1980-81 Calgary Flames season was the first season in Calgary and ninth for the Flames in the National Hockey League. The Flames came to southern Alberta from Atlanta, Georgia, where the franchise was known as the Atlanta Flames for the first eight years of its existence. The Flames became the third major-league team to represent the city of Calgary after the Calgary Tigers of the 1920s, and the Calgary Cowboys, which had folded in 1977. The Flames were purchased for $16 million USD by Nelson Skalbania in the spring of 1980. Before the sale was even announced, he had already sold 50% of the franchise to a group of Calgary-based investors including Harley Hotchkiss and Normie Kwong. On May...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1980-81 Edmonton Oilers season was the Oilers' 2nd season in the NHL, and they finished with 74 points, a 5 point improvement from their 1st season. Wayne Gretzky would run away with the Art Ross Trophy, awarded to the leading scorer, as he finished with 164 points, 29 points ahead of runner-up Marcel Dionne of the Los Angeles Kings. Gretzky would also win his 2nd straight Hart Trophy, awarded to the MVP of the NHL. His 164 points were an NHL record, previously held by Phil Esposito of the Boston Bruins in the 1970-71 NHL season when he scored 152 points. Youngsters Jari Kurri and Mark Messier would have very good offensive seasons, finishing 2nd and 3rd on the Oilers scoring list....
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The 1980–81 St. Louis Blues season was the 14th for the franchise in St. Louis, Missouri. The Blues won the Smythe Division for the first time in four seasons, with a record of 45 wins, 18 losses and 17 ties, good for 107 points, and second place overall in the entire NHL. This was the first time that the Blues had ever accumulated 100 or more points in a season. The Blues defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins in a five-game Preliminary Round, before losing the Quarter-finals in six games to the New York Rangers. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1980- 81 season was Blackpool F.C.'s 74th season (71st consecutive) in the Football League. They competed in the 24-team Division Three, then the third tier of English football, finishing second- bottom. As a result, they were relegated to Division Four, the League's basement division, for the first time in their history. Alan Ball was succeeded as manager during the season by Allan Brown, the Scot's second stint in the role. Colin Morris was the club's top scorer, with sixteen goals (twelve in the league, one in the FA Cup and three in the League Cup). Blackpool played local neighbours Fleetwood Town in the first round of the FA Cup. The 22 November tie was originally scheduled to be...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Nemzeti Bajnoksag I., the National Championship, or short the NBI, currently known as the Monicomp Liga for sponsorship reasons, is the highest level of professional football in Hungary since its inception in 1901. UEFA currently ranks the league 35th in Europe. Sixteen teams compete in the league, playing each other twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, the top team enters the qualification for the UEFA Champions League, while the runner-up and the third placed, together with the winner of the Hungarian Cup enters the UEFA Europa League qualification round. The bottom two clubs are...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. This was the final season of the original two region 2.Bundesliga, as the DFB sought to integrate the North and South divisions into a single division for the next campaign. This meant 22 teams faced the drop to the Oberliga (12 from the North, 10 from the South). There were 3 promotion spots to the Bundesliga on offer, while the remaining teams would enter the new single league 2.Bundesliga in the next season. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 1980–81 Segunda Division season saw 20 teams participate in the second flight Spanish league. CD Castellon, Cadiz CF and Racing de Santander were promoted to Primera Division. Granada CF, Palencia CF, Barakaldo CF and AgD Ceuta were relegated to Segunda Division B. The Segunda Division (Second Division) is the lower tier of the two professional leagues in Spain consisting of 22 teams. On 16 August 2006, the LFP reached an agreement with the banking group BBVA for sponsorship of the Segunda Division renaming the league Liga BBVA. From the season 2008-09 onwards, the name of the league is Liga Adelante. As...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 1980–81 Segunda Division B season saw 40 teams participate in the third flight Spanish league. Segunda Division B is the third level of the Spanish football league system. It is administered by the RFEF. The top two levels are La Liga, also referred to as the Primera Division, and the Segunda Division. Immediately below Segunda Division B is the Tercera Division. The division includes the reserve teams of several La Liga teams.The term Segunda Division B was first used during the inaugural La Liga season of 1928/29. It was used to designate a third level of teams after the Primera Division and a Segunda...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 1980/1981 Serie A season was won by Juventus F.C. Football is the most popular Sport in Italy. The Italian national football team has won the FIFA World Cup 4 times (1934, 1938, 1982, and 2006), trailing only Brazil (with 5). Italy's club sides have won 27 major European trophies, making them the most successful footballing nation in Europe.Other forms of football were played in Italy in ancient times, the earliest of which was Harpastum, played during the times of the Roman Empire. This game may have also been influential to other forms throughout Europe due to the expansion of the Empire, including...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. This season was something of a throwback to the 19th Century. Not only were Villa champions again, but they did it with just 14 players, of whom no less than seven were everpresent. Liverpool and Villa were top at the end of December, but Ipswich were just a point behind with games in hand. Villa finally edged in front of Ipswich on April 4 and remained in top spot to the end of the season. Ipswich were still in with a shout, but both clubs lost their games on May 2, leaving Villa as champions. Peter Withe won 11 caps for England and championship honours with Nottingham Forest in 1978. He had also played for...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 1980–81 season is the 84th season of competitive football by Rangers. Rangers played a total of 47 competitive matches during the 1980–81 season. The summer of 1980 saw Greig bring in Jim Bett from Lokeren for 150,000. Bett was joined by Colin McAdam a 165,000 signing from Partick Thistle. The side got off to a good start in the league, going on a fifteen match unbeaten run, including two Old Firm wins, was to end in November. A disastrous run in November and December all but ended the title challenge as the team finished third, twelve points behind champions Celtic. Данное издание не...
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