That skid cost Ruff the NHL's longest-tenured coach his job after nearly 16 years with the franchise.
And any fundamental problem with the franchise competitions cannot be blamed on officials.
For the second time in three years, the Sacramento Kings will host their regular-season finale with the franchise's future uncertain.
With the franchise now better known and a more aggressive foreign marketing campaign, Paramount has higher hopes for its big-budget sequel.
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The game came under scrutiny from video-game critics after a shakeup at Infinity Ward, the developer most often associated with the franchise.
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Jay-Z owns less than 1 percent of the Nets, but has had a major impact with the franchise's move to his hometown.
In the end, Gomez asserts, it allows a community to collaborate with the franchise and thus transcend the traditional notion of audience.
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The Cavaliers haven't won four games in a row since March 17-24, 2010, which was LeBron James' final season with the franchise.
Jones started the 2012-13 NBA season with the Dallas Mavericks, where he averaged 12.7 minutes per game through 50 games with the franchise.
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We know what we have to do to get ourselves back with the franchise application and it's a matter of getting on with it.
Jay-Z attended only a handful of games this season, but his affiliation with the franchise provided a necessary buzz for its first season in Brooklyn.
He is the longest serving captain in the NHL (appointed in October 1999) and is the only player to record 1, 000 points with the franchise.
Then again, watching Strawberry make the rounds with reporters and Mets brass was a reminder of all that's gone wrong with the franchise since he left it 19 years ago.
Still others do not trust Disney with the franchise.
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Still, the Jets may need Haley or someone with a similar background to help develop a formidable passing attack and work with quarterback Mark Sanchez, who will enter a make-or-break fourth season with the franchise.
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They have also lost several other key players to free agency during the last few months, giving Ryan a new-look roster to work with in a season that could affect his long-term future with the franchise.
If you have a franchise, your franchise organization will be handling most of the referrals from online travel agencies, but those didn't originate with the franchise organization, and they can't fairly claim credit for 'getting' it for you.
So with the franchise process suspended, affecting the West Coast route, three franchises including Great Western and Thameslink that were already on track, and throwing into doubt future franchising throughout Britain, we've come to a situation that would stretch the imagination of the writers of BBC2's outrageous satire The Thick Of It.
Katy Perry has had a successful relationship with Electronic Arts and Maxis with The Sims franchise.
The faithful might get nervous, but we can look to what Disney has done with the Marvel franchise for instruction.
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Another approach would let a company carry on running trains once its concession expires, in competition with the new franchise-holder.
Bill Davidson finally ended with the sale of the franchise in the summer of 2011 from his widow, Karen Davidson, to current owner Tom Gores, players might have grown accustomed to a calm status quo.
We have said we will make major investments with the Harry Potter franchise so successful in Orlando, elsewhere in the Universal theme park.
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Given the fact that this city has been clamoring for a hockey team ever since the Jets left, and with the success of the AHL franchise (the Manitoba Moose), it seems very likely that the residents of Winnipeg will have no trouble filling the stands.
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Two years after the introduction of the Asiaweek 1000, we expanded the franchise with a list that ranked the region's largest banks, The Asiaweek Financial 500.
The Cardinals also let Whisenhunt go on Black Monday, Dec. 31, cutting ties with the winningest coach in franchise history and the one who helped resurrected a sad-sack franchise.
The Tennessee Titans had it right with Haynesworth in applying the Franchise tag and a year-to-year proposition.
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Finnish game studio Rovio went from relatively unknown to center stage with the Angry Birds franchise.
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Someday the Gucci and Versace boutiques will be buzzing again, perhaps with the same Asian firms holding the franchise.
DreamWorks was struggling then, with only the Shrek franchise throwing off real money. 3-D might offer a flood of new revenue.
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