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Birmingham Stallions win United Football League title; third
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June 16, 2024 |
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The Birmingham
Stallions won the inaugural United Football League Championship by
defeating the San Antonio Brahamas 25-0 in The Dome at America's Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
The Stallions have now won three consecutive league titles, with the
first two as members of the United States Football League in 2022 and
2023.
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Major League Football postpones inaugural season to 2025.
June 15, 2024 |
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The proposed Major League Football has
postponed their inaugural season to the fall of 2025.
No reason was given. |
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Florida Everblades win
third straight ECHL Kelly Cup.
June 8, 2024 |
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The Florida Everblades won the 2024 ECHL Kelly Cup, defeating the Kansas
City Mavericks in the fifth game of the series.
The Everblades won their ECHL record setting third straight Kelly Cup title and their
fourth time overall.
They are the first ECHL team to win four titles.
The Birmingham Bulls
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Birmingham Legion WFC begin 2024 season with a road victory.
May 17, 2024 |
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The Birmingham Legion
WFC began their second season in the United Soccer League - W League
with a 3-1 road victory over the Greenville Liberty in South Carolina. |
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Birmingham Legion 2 begin inaugural season with a 1-1 draw.
May 15, 2024 |
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The Birmingham Legion
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began their inaugural season with a 1-1 against East Atlanta FC in
Protective Stadium. |
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RECENT DISCOVERY... Will Birmingham join the Arena Football
League?
April 30, 2024 |
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Back in 1991, the Arena
Football League was considering Birmingham as an expansion city for
the 1992 or 1993 season.
AFL creator Jim
Foster said that "Birmingham definitely does fit the
mold. We're looking for markets where the people love football in general."
The problem was finding a workable ownership group that would come forward.
The only person attempting to do so is Gadsden businessman John Ritchie, who
owns the Alabama Raiders of the Minor League Football Alliance. Ritchie says he
can't afford to own an Arena team but is interested in operating the local
franchise. He says he already owns the player equipment and has two years of
managing a football organization. His Raiders were 14-1 in the first year last
season and are currently 3-0 this season. "I don't want to exaggerate this and I
don't want to get people's hopes up, but I'm going to pursue it."
No viable ownership was ever found and Birmingham never joined the Arena
Football League.
However, the city did field an indoor football team in 2000. The
Birmingham
Steeldogs were an inaugural franchise in the AFL's developmental
league, arenafootball2, and played until the team folded after the 2007
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Peoria Rivermen win 2023-24 SPHL President's Cup.
April 28, 2024 |
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The Peoria Rivermen defeated the Huntsville Havoc two games to one to
win the 2023-24 SPHL President's Cup.
This is Peoria's second SPHL championship. |
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Oklahoma City Blue wins 2023-24 NBA G League
championship.
April 15, 2024 |
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The Oklahoma City Blue defeated the Maine Celtics in three
games to win their first
NBA G League
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Birmingham Bulls lose in first round of playoffs; 2023-24 season
ends.
April 13, 2024 |
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The Birmingham Bulls
finish the 2023-24 season with two straight overtime losses to
Evansville.
The Bulls finish with a 39-9-8-3 (W-L-OTL-SOL) record. |
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Birmingham Barons start 2024 season with shutout home victory.
April 5, 2024 |
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The
Birmingham Barons
began their 2024 season with a 12-0 shutout victory over the Chattanooga
Lookouts.
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Birmingham Squadron end 2023-24 season; miss playoffs.
March 30, 2024 |
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The
Birmingham Squadron closed out their 2023-24 season with a victory
but did not win enough games to advance to the playoffs.
The Squadron finished with a 15-19 record. |
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National Indoor Soccer League merging into Major League Indoor Soccer.
March 29, 2024 |
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In a joint announcement, the National Indoor Soccer League will merge
into Major League Indoor Soccer "effective immediately".
Not many details were given, but it appears the NISL might continue with
their schedule, which includes both the men's and women's Magic City SC
squads.
More details to follow as they are available. |
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Birmingham Legion begin 2024 season with road victory.
March 9, 2024 |
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The Birmingham Legion
started their 2024 season with a 1-0 road victory over the Phoenix
Rising.
Phoenix won the title last season in the USL Championship. |
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Magic City SC begin inaugural seasons with road losses.
February 4, 2024 |
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Both the men's and women's Magic City SC
squads began their inaugural seasons with road losses.
Both squads travelled to Fayetteville to take on the Fury, with the
men's squad losing 11-2 and the women's squad losing 11-1.
Next up for both will be home exhibition matches against an unannounced
opponent. |
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Montreal Alouettes win 2023 Canadian Football League Grey Cup.
November 19, 2023 |
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The Montreal Alouettes come out on top as they defeat the Winnipeg Blue
Bombers 28-24 in the 110th Grey Cup.
It was the Alouette's seventh time to win the Grey Cup.
In 1995 the
Birmingham Barracudas were members of the Canadian Football League
for a single season before folding. |
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Phoenix Rising wins 2023 United Soccer League Championship title.
November 12, 2023 |
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Phoenix Rising won the 2023
United Soccer League
Championship title 3-2 in a penalty shootout against the Charleston
Battery after both sides had played to a 1-1 draw through regulation and
extra time.
It is the first championship for the Rising franchise. |
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Tennessee Smokies win 2023 Southern League title.
September 26, 2022 |
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The Tennessee Smokies defeated the Pensacola Blue Wahoos to win the 2023
Southern League
championship.
This is the Smokies first true championship, but in 2004 due to
Hurricane Ivan the Southern League decided to award co-championships to
the Smokies and the Mobile BayBears. |
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BirminghamProSports.com debuts official logo.
September 18, 2023 |
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After years of tinkering with ideas, I finally decided on a logo for
this website!
I wanted to incorporate a few city symbols in the logo... the Vulcan
statue, the old train station sign, and the "All American City" logo the
city earned in the 1970's. I never could find a way to incorporate a
"Magic City" image, sadly. Vulcan in a top hat was not going to happen.
I also didn't want an exact copy of the Vulcan statue... I think he is
quite boring. In mythology Vulcan was ugly, so I made my Vulcan a little
wilder looking but tried to accurately copy the statue's hammerhead and
apron.
I kept him a grey tone like the statue, and I wanted him to be popping
out of the logo. I thought I'd make the train station sign a rusty color
to play off Vulcan's grey and if the original sign had never been torn
down, I'd think it would have a fair amount of rust on it today.
I've always like the font used at the Vulcan statue and wanted to use
something similar, so Art Deco was used. It looks old timey but still
looks cool to me.
The bottom portion was taken from the All-American City shield logo. The
vertical lines also remind me of the old TCI smokestacks I saw as a
youngster growing up in Ensley.
So, that's it. I hope everyone likes it.
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Birmingham Barons sold to Diamond Baseball Holdings.
September 11, 2023 |
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The
Birmingham Barons
announce they have been sold to Diamond Baseball Holdings.
The club will remain the Double-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox,
led by General Manager & President Jonathan Nelson.
Former owners Jeff and Stan Logan will remain involved with the club in
an advisory capacity.
DBH owns and operates select minor league baseball clubs affiliated with
Major League Baseball across the country. One of those teams is the
Southern League's Mississippi Braves.
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Southern Professional Hockey League rebrands as SPHL.
August 1, 2023 |
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The Southern Professional Hockey League announces that effective
immediately it will simply be known as the SPHL.
The league has branched out in recent years to include teams in both the
southeast and midwest United States and feels the old name was too
restrictive. Similar to what the ECHL did in changing from the East
Coast Hockey League, our continued success and expansion outside of the
original footprint of the league has allowed the hockey world to
recognize us simply as the SPHL, stated Commissioner Doug Price.
The original league logo will continue to be used, but the words
Southern Professional Hockey League has been removed. |
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| Team Names List |
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For the teams that suited up and played, you're probably well aware of
their team names.
But what about the teams that were proposed but never played any games?
Do you think you know all their names?
You might remember some of them,
but I'll bet there are a few you've never heard before.
Click here to check out my
page dedicated to all the team names and find out just how good your
memory really is! |
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