But first we go to a sports bar in Washington for the final game of this year's National Basketball Association championship.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

That began changing when Jackie Robinson played his first game for New York's Brooklyn Dodgers on April fifteenth,nineteen forty-seven.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

It is often a winning card. In one kind of poker game, the first card to each player is given face down.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

The first men's hockey game will be between the United States and Switzerland on February sixteenth.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

The first family can watch a movie in the small theater, play ping-pong in the family game room or bowl in the small bowling alley.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

But first, let me explain a little about the game.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

PepsiCo will not be advertising its flagship soft drink in the game for the first time in 23 years.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

It's not as if you are looking at the Canada game as your first game,". "I mean those are important games.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

More than 55,000 people turned out for the first World Cup Qualifying match held at Soldier Field, home of the 1994 World Cup opening game.

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

First Mariners game of the season. Plus Jacob here keeps bugging me aboutseeing you again.

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His first attempt at a perfect game came in 2007 against the Texas Rangers.

VOA: standard.2009.07.24

Buehrle threw 116 pitches and had six strike outs in the 5-0 victory, the first perfect game since Randy Johnson threw one for Arizona in 2004.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

It was the first-ever soccer game played at 11-year-old M&T Bank Stadium, which is the home field for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League.

VOA: standard.2009.07.25

President Barack Obama, a White Sox fan, who chatted with the pitcher in the clubhouse of the All Star game last week before throwing out the first pitch, is left handed like Buehrle.

VOA: standard.2009.07.24

Brazil dominated the match overall, but trailed the United States until the final minutes of the game because of two early U.S.goals the first by Clint Dempsey in the 10th minute and the second by Landon Donovan in the 37th.

VOA: standard.2009.06.29

At the Chicago White Sox U.S.Cellular Field on Chicago's South Side, the 30-year-old pitcher retired all 27 batters from the Tampa Bay Devil Rays without allowing anyone to reach first base, pitching a perfect game and putting his name in a record book occupied by only 17 others in Major League history.

VOA: standard.2009.07.24