High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 10th IBF World Championships (Badminton) were held in Glasgow, Scotland, between 24 May and 1 June 1997. Following the results of the men`s singles.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1997 IIHF World U20 Championship were held in Geneva and Morges, Switzerland. The tournament was won by Canada who won their record fifth straight gold medal with a 2-0 victory over the United States in the gold-medal match. Mike York of the United States was the top scorer in the tournament with 5 goals and 5 assists for 10 points.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top eight seeds received a bye into the second round.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1997 North American Touring Car Championship was the second and final season of the North American Touring Car Championship. The series was organized by CART, and ran to Super Touring regulations. 18 rounds at 9 race meetings were organized, all but one (in Savannah, Georgia) supporting the CART World Series.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1997 Baltimore Orioles season saw the Orioles finishing 1st in the American League East with a record of 98 wins and 64 losses. They met the Seattle Mariners in the ALDS, and beat them in 4 games. However, in the ALCS, they would play the Cleveland Indians, where they would fall in 6 games. It would be their last winning season until 15 years later.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1997 IIHF World Women`s Championships was held March 31-April 6, 1997 in seven Canadian cities all in the Province of Ontario. Team Canada won their 4th consecutive gold medal at the World Championships defeating the United States in a repeat of the previous three finals, however this time the United States took Canada in the closest final so far, losing in overtime. Finland picked up their fourth consecutive bronze medal, with a win over China who made the Semi-Final for the second consecutive year.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1997 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the 1997 American League playoffs, began on Tuesday, September 30, and ended on Monday, October 6, with the champions of the three AL divisions—along with a "wild card" team—participating in two best-of-five series. The teams were:
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde were the defending champions and won in the final 7–6, 7–6 against Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1997 Major League Baseball expansion draft was conducted by Major League Baseball (MLB) on November 18, 1997 in the Phoenix Civic Center to stock the major league rosters of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Arizona Diamondbacks, new major league expansion franchises that were set to start play in the 1998 season. Tampa Bay was to join the American League East division, displacing the Detroit Tigers (who moved to the American League Central division, thus displacing the Milwaukee Brewers, who moved to the National League Central division), and Arizona joined the National League West division.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1997 Florida Marlins season started off with the team trying to improve on their record from 1996. Their manager was Jim Leyland. They played home games at Pro Player Stadium. They finished with a record of 92-70, winning the NL Wild Card got through the National League playoffs and won the World Series over the Cleveland Indians.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1997 Green Bay Packers season was the team`s 78th season in the National Football League. The season concluded with the team winning its second consecutive NFC championship, but losing in a 31-24 upset to John Elway`s Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXXII. The team narrowly missed its opportunity to post back-to-back Super Bowl wins.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1997 NCAA Men`s Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men`s NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 13, 1997, and ended with the championship game on March 31 in Indianapolis, Indiana. A total of 63 games were played.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1997 NASCAR Busch Series Season began February 15 and ended November 9. Randy LaJoie of BACE Motorsports won the championship.
