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1. Washington Capitals -- Teams
   The Washington Capitals are one of five teams in the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Capitals play at the MCI Center, and wear uniforms of bronze and blue. The team's name was chosen because it plays in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.
2. Los Angeles Kings -- Los Angeles Kings Tickets
   Since the team came into the league in 1967, fans that purchase Los Angeles Kings tickets have seen a team that remains competitive every year, but unable to fid the key to a Stanley Cup Championship. Although located in an area dominated by outdoor sports like football and baseball, the sale of Kings tickets has remained high and fan support has remained strong since the teams first games. When Wayne Gretzky joined the team in 1989... the sale of Kings hockey tickets took off like never before, as the interest in hockey in California skyrocketed.
3. 1917
   The National Hockey League, founded in 1917, is the second-oldest of the four major professional team sports leagues in North America. Today, the NHL consists of 30 Member Clubs, each reflecting the League's international makeup, with players from more than 20 countries represented on team rosters. According to a Simmons Market Research study, NHL fans are younger, more educated, more affluent, and access content through digital means more than any other sport. The NHL entertains more than 100 million fans each season in- arena and through its partners in national television (VERSUS, NBC, TSN, CBC, RDS, RIS, NASN, NHL Network and HDNet) and radio (Westwood One and XM Radio). Through the NHL Foundation, the League's charitable arm, the NHL raises money and awareness for Hockey Fights Cancer, Hockey's All-Star Kids and NHL Diversity, and supports the charitable efforts of all NHL players. For more information on the NHL, log on to NHL.com.
4. Memphis Grizzlies -- Teams
   The Memphis Grizzlies are a National Basketball Association team based in Memphis, Tennessee. The current head coach was Mike Fratello, replacing Hubie Brown (who resigned in November 2004); the team is owned by Michael Heisley. The President of Basketball Operations is former Los Angeles Laker and Hall of Famer Jerry West.
5. Videogames
   Videogames currently seem to be at the Birth Of A Nation stage. Gamers and press are recognizing the technical merits and legitimacy of videogames in being able to convincing convey a story. Popular games like Final Fantasy X, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and The Getaway are good examples of that. Whether videogames will progress to the next 'cinema' art stage is largely dependent on two things. First, developers need to stand up as artists and continue to envision and create new possibilities of expression with videogames. Second, gamers need to see videogames as more than time-wasting stress-relieving outlets and appreciate the efforts of revolutionary developers like UGA and titles like Rez.
6. Nike -- Nike Skateboarding
   While these acquisitions were unfolding in the United States, Nike was pushing hard into overseas markets, and by 2003 international sales exceeded domestic sales for the first time. Starting in 2002 the company ... concentrated on building an extensive program to address the perennial charges of labor exploitation. Nike began allowing a monitoring organization it had cofounded, the Fair Labor Association, to conduct random factory inspections. It also built an in-house staff of approximately 100 employees to inspect hundreds of factories and grade them on labor standards. In early 2005 Nike took an unprecedented step toward greater transparency by issuing a list of its more than 700 contract factories. Such moves provided the basis for an improving relationship between Nike and its critics.
7. The Penguins -- Breeding
   When Mercury failed to renew their contract, The Penguins briefly went to Atlantic Records. But the company released only one single, "Pledge of Love," an R&B cover of a white pop hit, which lasted only one week on the R&B charts.

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