The Yankees have been Major League Baseball's most successful franchise with 26 World Series championships and 39 American League Pennants. They have more championships than any other North American franchise in professional sports history, passing the 24 Stanley Cup championships by the Montreal Canadiens in 1999.
The Red Wings were an affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals for 33 years (1928-1960), before spending 42 years (1961-2002) as a farm club of the Baltimore Orioles. The franchise played from 1929 through 1996 at Silver Stadium before moving to the modern facilities at Frontier Field in 1997. The Red Wings are currently the Triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins major-league club Rochester has had a franchise in the league now known as the International League since as early as 1885. The current franchise has been playing in Rochester since 1899, when the team was known as the Rochester Bronchos. The Red Wings are the oldest and longest running minor league franchise in the history of professional sports and are one of only two franchises in North American professional sports to have captured a league championship in every decade of the 20th century.
When the University at Buffalo football team takes the field for the 2008 season, it will be greeted with a feeling of excitement and optimism that hasn’t been felt at UB Stadium in a long time. Led by 2007 Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year Turner Gill, Buffalo returns 18 starters, including four All-MAC selections, to a team that went 5-3 in MAC play a season ago and earned a share of the 2007 MAC East Division regular season title. The five wins overall were the most by the Bulls since moving up to Division I-A in 1999, and was just one of many milestones achieved by the football team last year.
The Americans are one of the oldest franchises in the AHL, celebrating their 50th consecutive season in the American Hockey League in 2005-06. The Amerks became a joint affiliate in 1956, of both the Montreal Canadians and the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League. In the summer of 1968, the team was sold to Vancouver, where the Amerks were established as the farm team of the expansion Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League. In the summer of 1972, a group of Rochester businessmen bought the Americans franchise from Vancouver and the Boston Bruins became the Amerks' parent team shortly after in 1974. The Americans are currently affiliated with the Florida Panthers and in June of 2008, the Sabres officially ended their affiliation with the Amerks.
If they were a swim team and not a college basketball team, the Nazareth College Golden Flyers would have had a difficult time transitioning from the shallow end to the deep end of the pool in 2006-07. As games transitioned from one half to another, the Golden Flyers had difficulty holding their breath and their season became more renowned for coughing up second-half leads than for winning basketball games. The end result was that Nazareth struggled to keep its collective head above the break-even mark as it finished 11-14 overall and 6-8 in the tough Empire 8 Conference. As the calendar turns to 2007-08, the Golden Flyers hope to able to swim with the E8’s bigger fish as they come equipped with a roster that is talented, experienced and. . . yes. . . deep.
Back in 1923, a franchise called the Rochester Jeffersons entered the NFL and played a few seasons. They disbanded and Rochester was left without a team until 1946. Just after World War II, four men started a pro travel football team named the Rochester Raiders. The team dominated the other football teams of that era. However, the invention of television and the rising popularity of high school football in the fifties caused the Raiders and other travel football teams to fade away. In 1983 a new team hit the "Roc" football scene. The Raiders took the "Roc" by storm and did not miss a beat. They also dominated the Rochester football scene thru the 1980's. In the 2003-2005 seasons they posted a 42-6 record as a national travel team, and after an amazing 2006 season the Raiders have accomplished the 1st winning "playoffs & championship" game in 86 years.
The USA Today Sports Weekly college football season preview magazine has St. John Fisher College ranked sixth in its Division III preseason poll. Fisher is set to return over 40 letterwinners from last year’s 11-2 campaign, including nine players with starting-experience on the defensive side of the ball.
The 2007 Cardinals will play arguably the nation’s toughest schedule this fall, starting with No. 1 Mount Union College in the season opener for both teams. Fisher will face the Purple Raiders, who ended Fisher’s season each of the last two years (2006 – national semifinals; 2007 – national quarterfinals), at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 6th in Alliance, Ohio. Fisher is also one of only two schools to play three teams ranked in the top 25, hosting No. 21 Ithaca College on September 27th and No. 11 Salisbury University on October 11th.
“It’s an honor to be ranked in a preseason poll and it shows the respect our program has gained over the years,” says head coach Paul Vosburgh, who will enter his 18th season with the Cardinals this fall. “But at the same time, our record is 0-0, just like everyone else’s, and we know we’re going to have to come into training camp ready to work and improve week by week if we’re going to live up to the expectations we have.”
Over the last five years, Fisher has compiled an overall record of 49-12 and has advanced to the postseason in each campaign.
In 2007-2008, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team took another positive step forward as they try to climb back into contention in the difficult Atlantic 10 Conference. Under first year head coach Mark Schmidt, the Bonnies went 8-22 overall (2-14 A-10) but played many postseason teams close, including Elite Eight qualifier Xavier and NIT participants Charlotte and Dayton. Despite the less-than-stellar record, Bonas continues to have strong support with many fans filling Bob Lanier Court at the Reilly Center for each home game, regardless of opponent. Opposing teams have long feared traveling to Olean, where the home court advantage is truly a deterrent to any visiting squad. Be sure to tune in this upcoming season as the exciting, young St. Bonaventure team continues to grow and make the right moves towards a return to postseason play.
The Rochester Razorsharks were founded in 2005 as a professional basketball team in the American Basketball Association. The Razorsharks' won the 2006 ABA championship, continuing what has become a Rochester basketball tradition: The Rochester Royals won the National Basketball League championship in their first season, 1945-46, and the Rochester Zeniths captured the Continental Basketball Association crown in their maiden campaign in 1978-79. In March of 2007, the RazorSharks announced they were leaving the ABA to help form the new Premier Basketball League. The team's first year in the PBL was very successful, compiling an 18-2 record—the best in the league
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