The Negro League teams were started in the nineteen twenties to give black people a place to play baseball.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

A group called the League of Pastoral Peoples says 50,000 camels were brought to the fair in 2004.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

D.C.United won the M.L.S.Cup, the league championship, on the strength of a Most Valuable Player performance by Olsen.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

At a meeting of the National Negro Business League, Madam Walker explained that she was a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

And finally,this week Michael Vick won a conditional return to the National Football League.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

No black man had played for a major league baseball team since eighteen eighty-four.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

Last month, John Madden announced his retirement as a National Football League broadcaster.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

"Another way of looking at it is that a free agent in a sports league is the same thing as anybody else in the United States labor market.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

The United States,however, became involved unofficially in a number of league activities.

VOA: special.2011.02.03

England has always been known to be a fast and physical league."

VOA: special.2010.06.02

Rickey was president of the team. He wanted to find a black player who could deal with the insults and racial pressure he would face in the league.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

Mister Norworth reportedly had never seen a major league baseball game.

VOA: special.2011.04.04

He received support from a new group, the Anti-Imperialist League.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

It was a hard life for Negro League players.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

Major League Soccer came with a different purpose.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

It is the same disease that caused the death a decade ago of former star National Football League running back Walter Payton.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat spoke at a meeting of the Arab League last week in Cairo.

VOA: standard.2010.05.03

All the same, the Arab League chief noted that China is a development model to be emulated.

VOA: standard.2009.11.07

Thursday in Bangkok, Marciel said they urged the Burmese to begin a dialogue with the opposition National League for Democracy before next year's elections.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

Thirty-nine elaborate parade floats will celebrate a variety of themes, from the bicentennial of the war for Mexican independence to American major league baseball.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

Each year the Washington-based League of Conservation Voters releases a scorecard that rates the performance of members of Congress on environment and energy issues.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

We've just completed the Indian Premier League in the country; not a single incident.

VOA: standard.2009.06.12