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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.

ROCHESTER RED WINGS BASEBALL

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.

AMERKS HOCKEY

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.

NAZARETH GOLDEN FLYERS BASKETBALL

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.

UNIV. BUFFALO BULLS FOOTBALL

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.

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