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The Women's Tennis Association (WTA), formed in 1973 by Billie Jean King, is the main organizing body of women's professional tennis.
It organizes the WTA Tour, the worldwide professional tennis tour for women.
The WTA's counterpart organization for men's professional tennis is the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
The WTA was formed in the month of June 1973, and is able to trace its beginnings back to Houston, Texas, with the first Virginia Slims tournament, which was organized by Gladys Heldman and held in September 1970.
The WTA gives out awards every year for players who have done well during the season.
The WTA is based in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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The four Grand Slam tournaments, also known as The Majors, are the most important tennis tournaments.
This is due to the world ranking points players can earn, their tradition, the prize-money, and public and media attention.
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Sir Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton MBE (born 7 January 1985 in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England) is a British Formula One racing driver, currently racing for the Mercedes AMG Petronas team.
A seven-time World Champion, he is often regarded as one of the greatest F1 drivers in history.
Hamilton won the British Formula Renault, Formula Three Euroseries, and GP2 championships as his racing career advanced.
He became an F1 driver for McLaren-Mercedes in , making his Formula One debut (first race) 12 years after his first meeting with Ron Dennis.
Hamilton comes from a mixed-race background, with a black father and white mother.
He is often labelled one of "the first black driver in Formula One".
In his first season in Formula One, Hamilton set many racing records.
He finished second in the 2007 FIA Formula One World Championship, just one point behind Kimi Räikkönen.
He won his first World Championship the next season by one point ahead of Felipe Massa, overtaking Timo Glock on the final lap in Brazil.
He signed for Mercedes at the end of 2012 to race for them in the 2013 season.
Hamilton has gone on to win five more World Championships, all with the Mercedes team, becoming the most successful British driver in Formula One history.
Hamilton was born at Lister Hospital in Stevenage, England, He was named after American sprinter Carl Lewis.
His mother, Carmen Larbalestier (now Carmen Lockhart) is British.
His father's parents emigrated from Grenada to the United Kingdom in the 1950s.
Hamilton's parents separated when he was two.
At first he lived with his mother.
When Hamilton was twelve, he started living with his father, Anthony.
Hamilton was raised Roman Catholic.
Hamilton's first taste of racing came at radio-controlled cars.
His father bought him one in 1991, and Hamilton did well.
Hamilton started kart racing when he was six.
His father bought him his first go-kart as a Christmas present.
His father said he would support his racing as long as he worked hard at school.
To support his son Anthony had to take extra jobs, but he found enough time to attend all of Hamilton's races.
In October 2007, Hamilton announced his intention to live in Switzerland.
He said this was to avoid the media scrutiny in the United Kingdom.
Hamilton later admitted on the television show Parkinson, that taxation was part of the reason for his decision.
Hamilton was publicly criticised by UK MPs, including Liberal Democrat MP Bob Russell, for avoiding UK taxes.
He settled in Luins in Vaud canton on Lake Geneva.
On 18 December 2007, Hamilton was suspended from driving in France for one month.
He had been caught speeding at  on a French motorway.
His Mercedes-Benz CLK was also impounded.
Two days before the  Australian Grand Prix, Victoria Police witnessed Hamilton "deliberately losing traction" in his silver Mercedes, and impounded the car for 48 hours.
Hamilton immediately released a statement of apology for "driving in an over-exuberant manner".
In May 2010, Hamilton was charged with intentionally losing control of a vehicle.
Karting
Hamilton began karting in 1993 at the age of eight.
He quickly began winning races and class championships.
At the age of ten he approached McLaren F1 team boss Ron Dennis for an autograph.
He told him, "Hi.
I won the British Championship and one day I want to be racing your cars."
Dennis wrote in his autograph book, "Phone me in nine years, we'll sort something out then."
Hamilton made good progress through the karting ranks.
Ron Dennis signed Hamilton to the McLaren driver development program.
This contract included an option of a future F1 seat.
Hamilton would become the youngest ever driver to secure a contract which led in an F1 racing position.
Hamilton continued his progress in karting.
In the top level of karting, his team mate was Nico Rosberg.
Rosberg would later drive for the Williams and Mercedes GP teams in Formula One.
Following his karting successes the British Racing Drivers' Club made him a ‘Rising Star’ Member in 2000.
In 2001, Michael Schumacher made a one-time return to karts and competed against Hamilton along with other future F1 drivers Vitantonio Liuzzi and Nico Rosberg.
Hamilton ended the final in seventh, four places behind Schumacher.
Although the two saw little of each other on the track Schumacher praised the young Briton (see quote box).
Formula Renault and Formula Three
Hamilton began his car racing career in the 2001 Formula Renault UK Winter Series.
He finished fifth overall in the winter series.
This led to full Formula Renault UK seasons in 2002 and 2003.
Hamilton finished 2002 in third place.
In 2003 he won the championship with ten wins and 419 points.
Since he had enough points to win the championship, Hamilton missed the last two races of the season.
He made his debut in the British Formula Three Championship at the season finale.
He did show his speed at both the Macau Grand Prix and Korea Super Prix.
In Korea, he qualified on pole position in his first visit to the track.
It was only his fourth F3 race.
Hamilton made his debut in the Formula 3 Euro Series in 2004.
Hamilton ended the year fifth in the championship.
He first tested for McLaren in late 2004 at Silverstone.
Hamilton moved to the Euro Series champions ASM for the 2005 season.
He dominated the championship, winning 15 of the 20 rounds.
He also won the Marlboro Masters of Formula 3 at Zandvoort.
With his success in Formula Three, Hamilton moved to GP2 for the 2006 season.
He won the GP2 championship at his first attempt, beating Nelson Piquet, Jr. and Timo Glock.
His 2006 GP2 championship happened at the same time there was a vacancy at McLaren.
Juan Pablo Montoya left Formula on to race in NASCAR, and Kimi Räikkönen left to join Ferrari.
Hamilton was confirmed as the team's second driver.
He would be paired with defending champion Fernando Alonso for the  season.
He was told of McLaren's decision on 30 September.
The news was not made public until 24 November.
McLaren was afraid the news would be overshadowed by Michael Schumacher's retirement announcement.
Formula One career
Hamilton would be the team-mate of defending double World Champion Fernando Alonso.
Alonso had joined McLaren after leaving Renault.
On his debut at the Australian Grand Prix, he qualified fourth and finished third in the race.
He became the thirteenth driver to finish on the podium in his first F1 career race (excluding those in the first ever World Championship round).
In Bahrain, Hamilton got his first front-row start, qualifying and finishing second.
Hamilton again finished second behind Massa in the Spanish Grand Prix.
This put him in the lead in the drivers championship.
Hamilton broke Bruce McLaren's record of being the youngest driver to ever lead the world championship.
During qualifying for the European Grand Prix, Hamilton crashed at the Nürburgring due to a front right tyre failure.
He was unable to complete qualifying and started the race in tenth position.
During a heavy rainstorm which caused the race to be temporally stopped, Hamilton slid off into a gravel trap.
He was able to rejoin the race after the restart.
His ninth place finish in this race was his first non-podium and non-points finish.
Hamilton won the Hungarian Grand Prix from pole position.
At first, Alonso had set the fastest time, but he received a five-place grid penalty for blocking Hamilton in the pit lane; an action that prevented Hamilton from running his final qualifying lap.
McLaren was also penalised and earned no constructor's points for the race.
Afterwards, Hamilton said he had restored his relationship with Alonso.
He went on to qualify second in Turkey.
Hamilton was running in third place.
He got a flat tyre, and had to drive slowly back to the pits.
He finished the race in fifth place.
His championship lead was reduced.
Alonso beat Hamilton in the Italian and Belgian Grands Prix.
Hamilton now had a two-point lead in the title race.
His lead increased to 12 points after winning the Japanese Grand Prix.
The race was in heavy rain, and Alonso crashed out of the race.
After the race, there was investigated by the race stewards (officials).
They looked at Hamilton's actions behind the safety car.
Both Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber crash out of the race while following Hamilton.
The race stewards did not find that anybody did anything against the rules.
Hamilton earned the pole position in China.
The race saw both dry and wet weather conditions.
Hamilton retired from the race.
He was experiencing heavy tyre wear.
He tried to enter the pits.
He ran wide and into the gravel trap.
His car was stuck, and Hamilton recording the first retirement of his Formula One career.
Hamilton went into the final race of the season with a four point lead.
In the Brazilian Grand Prix, Hamilton would only manage to score two championship points, as he finished the race in seventh position.
Hamilton was passed by Räikkönen at the start.
He was blocked in by Massa and Räikkönen into the first corner, and caught off balance.
Hamilton was passed by Alonso in Turn 3.
Hamilton attempted to re-pass Alonso in Turn 4.
He ran wide, and dropped to eighth place.
Then a problem started on lap 9.
Hamilton had a gearbox problem.
He was stuck in neutral and could not select any gears.
Hamilton reset the settings on his steering wheel.
The gearbox started working again.
He had lost 40 seconds while his car was coasting.
For most of the race, Massa was leading and Räikkönen was in second.
If the race had ended this way, Hamilton would have become world champion.
During the second round of pit stops, Räikkönen the lead from Massa.
Räikkönen won the race to become the 2007 Formula One World Champion.
Team tensions
The first sign that Hamilton was unhappy with his team appeared after he finished second at Monaco.
His post-race comments suggested he had been forced into a supporting role.
The FIA looked to see if McLaren had broken rules by enforcing team orders.
FIA determined that McLaren did not break any rules.
During qualifying at the Hungarian Grand Prix, Alonso held Hamilton up in the pits.
This caused Hamilton to miss one last lap to try and earn the pole position.
Alonso was moved back to the sixth starting position.
This moved Hamilton to the pole.
McLaren was docked constructors championship points.
Hamilton said he thought Alonso's penalty was "quite light if anything" and only regretted the loss of constructors' points.
As a result of these events, the relationship between Hamilton and Alonso temporarily collapsed.
The pair were not on speaking terms for a short period.
After the Japanese Grand Prix, Alonso felt that a race stewards' verdict had settled the championship in Hamilton's favor.
He said: "I'm not thinking of this championship anymore, it's been decided off the track.
The drivers' briefing has no purpose.
You go there to hear what Charlie Whiting and the other officials say.
Twenty one drivers have an opinion, Charlie and the officials another, and so it's like talking to a wall".
After the season was over, Alonso and McLaren terminated their contract on 2 November 2007.
Both sides agreed to the departure of Alonso.
2008 season
In January 2008, Hamilton signed a new five-year contract to stay with McLaren-Mercedes until the end of the 2012 season.
For the  season, Heikki Kovalainen would drive the second car for McLaren-Mercedes.
The first race of the 2008 season, the Australian Grand Prix, Hamilton qualified on pole and won the race.
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In the Bahrain, Hamilton destroyed his car during a practice crash.
He used a spare chassis and took third place in qualifying.
In the race, he crashed into the back of Alonso's car and finished 13th.
He was back on the podium in Spain finishing third.
Hamilton finished second in Turkey, and won the Monaco Grand Prix a two weeks later, putting him back into the championship lead.
He qualified on the pole in Montreal but he crashed into the back of Kimi Räikkönen during the race.
There was a red light at the end of the pit lane.
Hamilton did not see  that Räikkönen was stopped at the light.
Hamilton was given a 10 position starting grid penalty for the next race, the French Grand Prix.
Hamilton went on to win the British Grand Prix in difficult, wet conditions.
This was called one of his best performance to date.
Hamilton himself said in the post race press conference that it was his most difficult and most meaningful win.
Hamilton won the Belgian Grand Prix, but this win was called into question.
He was left the race track in a chicane avoid hitting Kimi Räikkönen.
The race officials said that gave Hamilton an unfair advantage.
McLaren said that their monitoring equipment showed Hamilton slowed down to let Räikkönen past.
Hamilton was given a 25 second penalty.
The penalty dropping him to third place.
McLaren appealed the penalty to the FIA World Motor Sport Council.
The council said the case was inadmissible.
At Fuji, Hamilton took pole in qualifying.
Felipe Massa was his closest rival for the Championship title.
Massa could only manage to qualify fifth.
As the race began Kimi Räikkönen made a good start, and passed Hamilton.
Hamilton ran wide at the first corner.
This forced some of the drivers behind him to go off the track.
Hamilton was given a drive-through penalty for his actions.
On the second lap, when Hamilton tried to pass Massa at turn 10, Hamilton pulled alongside and made a move to pass him.
Massa then ran wide and both cars hit.
Hamilton car went into a spin.
Massa was given a drive-through penalty for this move.
Hamilton dropped down to last place.
He managed to finish the race in 12th position, but earned no points.
At the Chinese Grand Prix, Hamilton was much faster than all the other cars in practice.
He qualified on pole position.
He went on to win the race, and a 7 point lead in the World Championship.
The Brazilian Grand Prix was the last race of the year.
Hamilton needed to finish at least fifth the to win the World Championship.
After a hard fought race Hamilton was in fifth place.
In the closing laps of the race, it started to rain.
Sebastian Vettel passed Hamilton for fifth position.
Massa had already won the race.
With Hamilton in sixth place, it looked like Massa would win the title.
During the final lap both Vettel and Hamilton passed Timo Glock.
Glock was using dry-weather tyres and Hamilton was using wet-weather tyres.
This put Hamilton back into fifth place.
Hamilton's pass gave him one more point than Massa.
Hamilton had won the 2008 Formula One World Championship.
He became the youngest driver to win the title, as well as the first black driver.
He is also the first British driver to win the World Championship since Damon Hill in 1996.
Racial abuse
On 4 February 2008, Hamilton was verbally taunted and abused during pre-season testing at the Circuit de Catalunya in Catalonia.
Several Spanish spectators wore black face paint and black wigs.
They wore shirts saying "Hamilton's ".
Hamilton had become unpopular in Spain because of his rivalry with Spaniard Fernando Alonso.
The FIA warned Spanish authorities not to let this behavior continue.
the FIA announced on 13 February 2008 that it will launch a "Race Against Racism" campaign.
2009 season
Hamilton started the  season-opening Australian Grand Prix from 18th place on the grid.
Hamilton finished the race in third place after Jarno Trulli was penalized.
Trulli had passed Hamilton while behind the safety-car.
There was a post-race stewards' hearing.
Hamilton and McLaren told the stewards they did not let Trulli pass.
The McLaren radio communication proved that was a lie.
Hamilton was disqualified from the race for providing "misleading evidence" during the stewards' hearing.
He later apologized in private to FIA race director Charlie Whiting for lying.
During the next six races, Hamilton did not perform well.
He qualified outside the top ten three more times, with fifth place his best start.
He only scored a few points.
At Nürburgring he qualified fifth.
On the first lap he and Mark Webber hit each other.
Hamilton had a flat tyre and damaged his car.
He finished 18th.
Hamilton's performance improved at the Hungaroring.
Hamilton started fourth.
A good start with a KERS assisted car start moved him to second place by the first corner.
By lap 13 he was leading the race.
He finish 11.5 seconds ahead of Räikkönen.
It was Hamilton's 10th career win and the first for a KERS-equipped car.
In Valencia, Hamilton qualified on pole position for the first time in the season, and his team-mate, Heikki Kovalainen qualified second.
In the race a poor pit stop by the mechanics lost Hamilton first place.
He finished second.
Hamilton crashed out of the next two races, the Belgian and Italian Grands Prix.
This removed any chance of defending his title.
In September, at the Singapore Grand Prix, Hamilton took his second win of the season.
He finished third at the next two races, the Japanese and Brazilian Grands Prix.
In the inaugural (first ever) Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Hamilton qualified on the pole.
He led the race, but retired on lap 20 due to a rear brake problem.
This was his first mechanical-related retirement in Formula One.
2010 season
After a difficult 2009 season, Hamilton set out with a new challenge for the title.
He finished third in Bahrain.
In Australia, Hamilton failed to make the top ten in qualifying.
He starting the race from eleventh place on the grid, and ending the race in sixth place.
He had a late-race collision with Mark Webber.
At Malaysia, McLaren misjudged the weather during qualifying, and let Hamilton go out on the wrong tyres for the wet conditions.
He started 20th on the grid for the race, but came through with a sixth place finish.
Hamilton was given a warning during the race.
He weaved four times trying to break the aerodynamic tow of Vitaly Petrov.
Hamilton was not trying to block him.
After the race the rules were clarified.
A driver may weave only once, even to break a tow.
In Shanghai, Hamilton finished in second place, behind teammate Jenson Button.
This was McLaren's first 1-2 finish for two and a half years.
Hamilton was involved in a pit lane incident with Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel.
Both drivers received a reprimand from race stewards.
Hamilton qualified third for the Spanish Grand Prix.
Near the end of the race he was running in second behind Mark Webber.
Hamilton had already set the fastest lap of the race.
The next to the last lap of the race, he ran off the track and hit the wall.
The left front suspension was destroyed and Hamilton was out of the race.
The wheel rim had failed and destroyed the tyre, sending Hamilton out of control.
He was classified with a 14th place finish.
The next weekend at Monaco Hamilton and teammate Jenson Button raced with a diamond encrusted steering wheel.
Hamilton's steering wheel had the year "08" placed on it in diamonds for his championship in 2008.
Button had the year "09" on his wheel for his championship in 2009.
Hamilton qualified and finished fifth.
For the Turkish Grand Prix, Hamilton qualified a season's best second.
Hamilton was running in second place when Vettel and Webber collided with each other on Lap 40.
That moved Hamilton into first place.
Jenson Button was then in second place.
They passed each other once before the end of the race.
Hamilton took his first victory of the 2010 season, moving him to third in the Drivers Championship.
Hamilton qualified on pole for the Canadian Grand Prix.
He has started from the pole at every of his F1 races at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
Hamilton won the race and moved into the lead the Drivers Championship.
A day after the Grand Prix Hamilton flew back into the UK and drove Ayrton Senna's championship winning McLaren MP4/4.
Hamilton was clearly excited and overcome with emotion.
He described it as 'one of the best days of his life'.
He also stated that he had 'ticked off one of his dreams' by driving the car.
Hamilton qualified third in Valencia.
He passed Mark Webber at the start of the race.
During a safety car period, Hamilton passed the second safety car line about 0.5 seconds after the safety car exited the pits.
Hamilton passed the safety car instead of slowing down to follow the safety car.
Fernando Alonso was behind Hamilton and had to remain behind the safety car.
Alonso complained on the radio to his team.
The stewards investigated the incident and penalized Hamilton with a drive through penalty.
There was a 20 minutes before the penalty was announced.
This allowed Hamilton to build up a large gap with the car behind him.
When he served his penalty, he stayed in second place.
This made Alonso and the Ferrari team mad.
Hamilton then accused Alonso of "sour grapes".
Hamilton and Alonso made-up before the next race.
Hamilton finished second and retained his lead in the drivers championship.
He finished second at Silverstone and fourth at Hockenheim.
In Hungary, Hamilton qualified fifth but retired during the race due to engine problems.
He lost the championship lead to Webber.
After the one month long summer break, Hamilton won the Belgium Grand Prix and set the fastest lap.
This moved him into first place in the championship.
But at both the Italian and Singapore Grands Prix, he retired from the race.
This has moved him into third place.
Most consecutive podiums from debut race: 9 –  Australian GP 2007 – British GP 2007 (previous record was 2 by Peter Arundell – Monaco GP 1964 – Dutch GP 1964)
Most consecutive podiums for a British driver: 9 – Australian GP 2007 – British GP 2007 (tied with Jim Clark – Belgian GP 1963 – South African GP 1963)
Youngest driver to lead the World Championship: 22 years, 4 months, 8 days – at the Bahrain GP 2007 (Previous record was 23 years, 7 months, 22 days by Fernando Alonso at the Malaysian GP 2005)
Most wins in a debut season: 4, Canadian, USA, Hungarian and Japanese GPs 2007 (equalling Jacques Villeneuve, European, British, Hungarian and Portuguese GPs 1996)
Most pole positions in a debut season: 6, Canadian, USA, British, Hungarian, Japanese and Chinese GPs 2007 (Previous record was 3 held jointly by Jacques Villeneuve () and Juan Pablo Montoya ())
Most points in a debut season: 109
Second youngest F1 World Champion : 23 years and 300 days.
Sebastian Vettel is now the youngest champion.
In his debut season, Hamilton took the record of Youngest World Drivers' Championship runner-up, at 22 years and 288 days, previously held by Kimi Räikkönen at 23 years and 360 days.
In 2009, this record was taken by Sebastian Vettel, who was 22 years and 122 days when he secured runner-up position in the championship.
Hamilton is the first driver of black heritage to compete in Formula One (although Willy T. Ribbs tested an F1 car in 1986).
He is the first driver of black heritage to win a major race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in any discipline.
In addition, he is the third youngest driver to achieve an F1 pole position, and the fourteenth F1 driver to achieve a podium finish on his debut.
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Todd Bentley (born 1976) claims to be a Canadian Evangelical Christian and practiced as an Evangelist before being denounced.
He was one of the main preachers who are part of the Charismatic revival meetings in Lakeland, Florida known as the Florida Healing Outpouring.
Attendance at the meetings was as high as 10,000 visitors a night from around the world.
Todd Bentley has since been denounced as a false prophet by Christian communities.
When Bently was a child he lived in Gibsons, British Columbia, a small place in west Canada.
At the time when Todd Bentley's mother and father stopped being married, Bentley wrote in a book about himself that he made in 2008 called, The Journey into the Miraculous,  that he had problems and did illegal drugs.
He also said in this book that he had drank too much alcohol.
Bentley said that he changed to believe in Jesus and be a Christian, and when he did that he did not have problems with drugs or drinking alcohol anymore.
He became a Christian when he was 18 years old.
What Bently believes
Bentley's other beliefs and style are seen as being from "Spiritual Leader" to "False Prophet" by other Christian leaders.
He yells 'Bam!'
during sermons, He has an unusual appearance for a preacher such as tattoos and piercings.
At greater issue is Bentley's mysticism and spirituality, which is nontraditional for the Pentecostal and Charismatic congregations he serves and counter to others.
Two major points of contention are the manner and veracity of the Faith Healing he conducts in his services and an encounter he discusses with an angel that was a harbinger of financial wellbeing.
Other major theological debates have arisen from Bentley's references to several trips he has made to Heaven and meetings with the Paul the Apostle.
These controversies were highlighted by the media coverage of the Lakeland revival.
Faith healing
Bentley heavily features faith healing, a common feature of the Charismatic movement.
His behavior in conducting the healings has come under fire for the violence with which it is sometimes done.
Bentley most commonly places his hands on an individual's head or area of infirmity but sometimes has more violently kicked out or hit the volunteer while calling out for the power of God to descend.
In response, some people may stand and physically tremble, while others may literally fall down to the ground in what they call "falling under the power" of the Holy Spirit.
The medical corroboration of both the injuries sustained by healings and the healings themselves has been a common topic of dissension in the media.
The Angel Emma
A controversy surrounds his alleged encounter with an angel he called 'Emma' at an AOG church in 2001.
Bentley stated that the female angel gave him a vision of gold dust, and afterwards he received a breakthrough in terms of financial stability.
Among Assembly of God congregants, especially, there was debate about whether such a professed encounter was in line with AOG doctrine as set out in the 16 Fundamental Truths The most persistent challenge was twofold; whether the experience of a specifically female angel who prophesied financial well-being was a Biblically recognized phenomenon, and whether preaching about such an encounter was theologically responsible - would it bring converts to worship such an angel rather than the God who sent her?
Bentley has argued that it was God's choice, and not his own, that an angel appeared to him in that manner.
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Division I is the highest level of college sports in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States.
Its schools generally have the biggest budgets, the best facilities, and offer more their students more athletic scholarships than Divisions II and III.
Football Bowl Subdivision
Pacific-12 Conference
Football Championship Subdivision
Big South Conference
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
Northeast Conference
Patriot League
Southland Conference
Pioneer Football League
Other conferences
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College Hockey America (women only)
National Collegiate Hockey Conference (men only)
New England Women's Hockey Alliance
Western Collegiate Hockey Association (women only)
The only Division I all-sports conference that plays either men's or women's ice hockey is the Big Ten.
It started a men's hockey league in 2013–14.
These conferences only play water polo.
All three run men's and women's leagues.
Golden Coast Conference
Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association
Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges
Pacific Coast Swim Conference
In some sports, the NCAA does not split schools into divisions because only a small number of schools play a given sport.
Technically, conferences in these sports are not Division I. However, most of the schools in these conferences are in Division I in other sports.
Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association
Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association
Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association
Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association
Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics League (men only)
Midwest Independent Conference (women only)
Mountain Rim Gymnastics Conference (women only)
Great America Rifle Conference
Mid-Atlantic Rifle Conference
Patriot Rifle Conference
Midwest Fencing Conference
Southland Bowling League
Division II is the middle division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
It is less competitive and less expensive than Division I, but more competitive than Division III, which offers no athletic scholarships.
Divisions II and III were previously known togther as the NCAA College Division.
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Great American Conference
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Great Lakes Valley Conference
Great Midwest Athletic Conference
Gulf South Conference
Lone Star Conference
Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association
Mountain East Conference
North Central Conference
Northeast-10 Conference
Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
South Atlantic Conference
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
California Collegiate Athletic Association
Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference
Conference Carolinas
East Coast Conference
Great Northwest Athletic Conference – Currently partners with the Lone Star Conference in football.
Pacific West Conference
Peach Belt Conference
Sunshine State Conference
These conferences play only one or two sports.
Note that the NCAA treats swimming and diving as a single sport.
Also, the NCAA counts men's and women's teams in the same sport as playing two different sports.
Bluegrass Mountain Conference (swimming and diving)
Deep South Conference (men's lacrosse)
ECAC Division II Lacrosse League (men's lacrosse)
Metropolitan Conference (swimming and diving)
New South Intercollegiate Swim Conference (swimming and diving)
Western Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (men's and women's lacrosse)
College athletics conferences
Division III is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States.
The division is made up of colleges and universities that choose not to offer their students athletic scholarships.
All-sports conferences
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference
American Rivers Conference
American Southwest Conference
Atlantic East Conference
Centennial Conference
City University of New York Athletic Conference
Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin
Colonial States Athletic Conference
Commonwealth Coast Conference
Great Northeast Athletic Conference
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference
Landmark Conference
Liberty League
Little East Conference
Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Middle Atlantic Conference — An umbrella organization for the following three leagues:
MAC Commonwealth, sponsoring 14 sports including men's and women's basketball, but not football
MAC Freedom, sponsoring the same set of 14 sports
Middle Atlantic Conference, not to be confused with the umbrella organization; sponsoring competition in 13 sports, including football, for both Commonwealth and Freedom members
Midwest Conference
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
New England Collegiate Conference
New England Small College Athletic Conference
New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
New Jersey Athletic Conference
North Atlantic Conference
North Coast Athletic Conference
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference
Northwest Conference
Ohio Athletic Conference
Old Dominion Athletic Conference
Presidents' Athletic Conference
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Skyline Conference
Southern Athletic Association
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference
State University of New York Athletic Conference
United East Conference
University Athletic Association
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference
USA South Athletic Conference
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Football-only conferences
Commonwealth Coast Football — operated by the Commonwealth Coast Conference, but a separate entity
Eastern Collegiate Football Conference
Ice hockey-only conferences
Colonial Hockey Conference (women only)
ECAC West (men and women)
New England Hockey Conference (men and women)
Northern Collegiate Hockey Association (men and women)
United Collegiate Hockey Conference (men and women)
Lacrosse-only conferences
Midwest Lacrosse Conference (men only)
Midwest Women's Lacrosse Conference
Ohio River Lacrosse Conference (men and women)
Men's volleyball-only conferences
Continental Volleyball Conference
Midwest Collegiate Volleyball League
United Volleyball Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is one of the major college sports conferences in the United States.
It was formed in 1953 by a group of seven colleges and universities that left the Southern Conference.
The 15 schools in the conference are split into two groups—the Atlantic and Coastal Divisions—in football and baseball.
Notre Dame does not play football in the ACC; in that sport, it remains an "independent" school that does not play in a conference.
However, it has agreed to play five of its 12 regular-season games each year against other ACC schools.
Syracuse does not have a baseball team; Notre Dame takes its place in the Atlantic Division for that sport.
As of the 2014–15 school year, the ACC holds championships in 26 sports.
Twelve of these are men's sports and 13 are women's sports.
One sport, fencing, has separate ACC men's and women's team championships, but has a single coeducational (men's and women's) NCAA team championship.
Baseball (men only)
Basketball (both)
Cross country (both)
Fencing (coeducational)
Field hockey (women only)
Football (men only)
Golf (both)
Lacrosse (both)
Rowing (women only)
Soccer (both)
Softball (women only)
Swimming and diving (both)
Tennis (both)
Track and field, indoor (both)
Track and field, outdoor (both)
Volleyball (women only)
Wrestling (men only)
He was born in Newhouse, Lanarkshire.
He worked as a coal miner, but his bosses stopped him from working when he made a union.
He became a politician, and was elected to (chosen for) parliament in 1892.
At first he was a Liberal, but he was interested in making a working class party.
He started the Independent Labour Party in 1893, and what became the modern Labour party in 1900.
He died in Glasgow following a series of strokes.
Benn, Caroline (1992) Keir Hardie London: Hutchinson
Kevin Jefferys (ed), Leading Labour: From Keir Hardie to Tony Blair  IB Taurus, 1999.
Kenneth O. Morgan, Keir Hardie, Radical and Socialist Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1975
Kenneth O. Morgan, Labour People: Leaders and Lieutenants, Hardie to Kinnock OUP, 1987.
Greg Rosen (ed), Dictionary of Labour Biography.
Politicos Publishing, 2001.
Greg Rosen, Old Labour to New, Politicos Publishing, 2005.
Biography of Hardie with quotes
Rhondda Cynon Taff Online : Unveiling the Keir Hardie Bust
BBC News: Memorial to Labour founder Hardie
Disease-related deaths in Scotland
The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is an American college athletic conference located primarily in the South Central and Southeastern United States.
The conference has 14 members.
It is a part of the NCAA's Division I.
Member Universities
Since July 1, 2012, there are 14 members, with Vanderbilt being the only private university.
Future members
On July 27, 2021, Oklahoma and Texas notified the SEC they are wanting to be a part of the conference.
On July 29, 2021, the presidents of the current 14 schools of the SEC all voted in agreement to give an offer to Oklahoma and Texas.
On July 30, 2021, both future SEC schools voted to accept the invitation, and will join the SEC at the start of the 2025–26 school year.
Angelo Fausto Coppi (15 September 1919 – 2 January 1960) was an Italian racing cyclist.
He was born in Castellania.
He was one of the most successful and most popular cyclists of all time.
He won the Tour de France twice, in 1949 and 1952.
He won the Giro d'Italia five times, in 1940, 1947, 1949, 1952 and 1953.
He also held the World Hour record (the farthest cycled in one hour) from 1942 to 1956.
He fought in the Second World War.
He was a prisoner of war of the British.
It is possible that Coppi could have won many more races in the five years that were lost because of the war.
Coppi died of malaria in Tortoni in 1960 at the age of 40.
Giro d'Italia:
Winner stage 11
Giro di Toscana
Giro del Veneto
Hour record - 45.798 km (Milan, Velodromo Vigorelli)
Italian National Road Race Championship
Giro della Romagna
Winner stages 4, 13 and 14
Winner stages 4, 8 and 16
Winner mountains classification
Winner stages 16 and 17
Tour de France:
Winner stages 7, 17 and 20
Winner stages 4, 11 and 17
Winner stages 6 and 18
Gran Premio di Lugano
Winner stages 7, 10, 11, 18 and 21
Winner stages 5, 11 and 14
World Road Cycling Championships
Winner stages 4, 19 and 20
Trofeo Baracchi
Winner mountain classification
Coppa Bernocchi
Giro dell'Appennino
Find-A-Grave profile for Fausto Coppi
Sportspeople from Piedmont
Hurricane Hazel was the worst hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season and one of the worst hurricanes of the 20th century.
Hazel killed as many as 1,000 people in Haiti before striking the United States just south of Wilmington, North Carolina as a Category 4 hurricane.
19 people were killed in North Carolina, and 81 people were killed when it hit Toronto, Ontario.
It is the strongest hurricane ever recorded to strike so far inland.
History of Grenada
1950s in North Carolina
20th century in West Virginia
20th century in Maryland
1950s in Pennsylvania
1950s in New York (state)
1954 in Canada
Miguel Ángel Indurain Larraya (born July 16, 1964) is a Spanish retired road racing cyclist.
He was a professional cyclist from 1985 to 1996.
He was the first person to win the Tour de France five times in a row from 1991 to 1995.
He also won the Giro d'Italia two times, in 1992 and 1993.
In 1994, he cycled 53.040 kilometres in one hour, which was a new hour record.
He also won the Olympic Gold medal for the time trial in 1996.
Indurain was very good at time trials.
In the five Tours de France that he won, he only won two stages that were not time trials.
He finished time trials much quicker than other cyclists, so he did not need to attack in mountain stages.
In the 1996 Tour de France, he had a bad cold and he could not win.
He retired later in 1997.
Tour de France finishings
1985: Withdrew, 4th stage
1986: Withdrew, 8th stage
1987: 97th
1988: 47th
1989: 17th
1990: 10th
1991: 1st
1992: 1st
1993: 1st
1994: 1st
1995: 1st
1996: 11th
Giro d'Italia finishings
1994: 3rd
Vuelta a España finishings
1985: 84th
1986: 92nd
1987: Withdrew
1988: Withdrew
1989: Withdrew
1990: 7th
1991: 2nd
1996: Withdrew, 12th stage
World Time-Trial Championship (1995)
Summer Olympics Men's Individual Time Trial (1996)
Dauphiné Libéré (1995, 1996)
Paris-Nice (1989, 1990)
Clásica de San Sebastián (1990)
Critérium International (1989)
Grand prix du Midi Libre (1995)
Volta a Catalunya (1988, 1991, 1992)
Tour de l'Avenir (1986)
Accolades ya boi emilio
French Légion d'honneur
Prince of Asturias Awards: Sports (1992)
Active member – Laureus World Sports Academy
1995 ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year
People from Navarre
Shimon Peres  (; born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923 – 28 September 2016) was a Polish-born Israeli statesman.
He was the President of the State of Israel.
Peres served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel.
He also served as Interim Prime Minister twice.
Peres has been a member of 12 cabinets.
His political career spanned over 66 years.
He was one of three leaders who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994.
The others were Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat.
On September 13, 2016, Peres, aged 93, suffered a severe stroke and was hospitalized in Ramat Gan, Israel.
He had suffered a massive brain hemorrhage.
Two days later, he was reported as being in a serious but stable condition.
However, on September 26, an examination found damage to his brainstem.
He died on September 28 of complications from the stroke.
His cousin was the American Hollywood actress Lauren Bacall.
Their fathers were brothers.
Shimon Peres The Biography (2006), Michael Bar-Zohar
Official Israeli Presidency website
Deputy government ministers of Israel
Disease-related deaths in Israel
Israeli civil servants
Presidents of Israel
Ehud Olmert, Hebrew: אהוד אולמרט , (born 30 September 1945 in Binyamina) is an Israeli lawyer and former politician.
He was Prime Minister of Israel.
Olmert was a Member of Knesset from 1974 to 2009, with an interruption from 1999 to 2003.
He was also mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003.
In 2006 he switched from Likud to newly formed Kadima.
He was the head of Kadima until September 2008.
Bio at Knesset Website
Israeli lawyers
Israeli mayors
Israeli prisoners
Jewish Israeli criminals
Kadima, Hebrew: קדימה‎‎ - Forward,  is an Israeli political party.
2000s establishments in Israel
Former political parties in Israel
Zionist parties
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova (Cyrillic: ; born June 27, 1985) is a Russian professional tennis player who is currently ranked World No.
She won the US Open singles title in 2004 and was the runner-up in singles at the French Open in 2006 and the US Open in 2007, losing both finals to Justine Henin in straight sets.
Jacques Anquetil (8 January 1934 – 18 November 1987), was a French road racing cyclist.
He was the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, in 1957 and from 1961 to 1964.
Anquetil was very good at riding time trials, and this helped him to win grand tours.
He also won the Giro d'Italia in 1960 and 1964, and the Vuelta a España in 1963.
This made him the first cyclist to win all three grand tours.
In 1956 he rode 46.159 kilometres in one hour, making a new hour record.
Anquetil was born in Mont-Saint-Aigan.
He died of stomach cancer in Rouen.
Major achievements
1957 - 1st overall; 4 stage wins; 16 days in maillot jaune
1959 - 3rd overall
1961 - 1st overall; 2 stage wins; 21 days in maillot jaune
1962 - 1st overall; 2 stage wins; 3 days in maillot jaune
1963 - 1st overall; 4 stage wins; 5 days in maillot jaune
1964 - 1st overall; 4 stage wins; 5 days in maillot jaune
1959 - 2nd overall; Stage 2 ITT win; Stage 19 ITT win; 7 days in maglia rosa
1960 - 1st overall; Stage 9b ITT win; Stage 14 ITT win; 11 days in maglia rosa
1961 - 2nd overall; Stage 9 ITT win; 4 days in maglia rosa
1964 - 1st overall; Stage 5 ITT win; 17 days in maglia rosa
1963 - 1st overall; 1 stage win; 16 days in jersey de oro
Other one-day classics and stage races
Super Prestige Pernod International (1961, 1963, 1965, 1966)
Grand Prix des Nations (1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1961, 1965, 1966)
Liège-Bastogne-Liège (1966)
Gent-Wevelgem (1964)
Bordeaux-Paris (1965)
Dauphiné Libéré (1963 - 1st overall; 1 stage win; 1965 - 1st overall, 3 stage wins)
1957 - 1st overall; 1 stage win - Time Trial Stage
1961 - 1st overall; 1 stage win
1963 - 1st overall; 1 stage win
1965 - 1st overall; 1 stage win
1966 - 1st overall; 1 stage win
Vuelta al País Vasco (1969)
Four Days of Dunkirk (1958, 1959)
Hour record in 1956 - 46.159 km
Gitane USA
The hour record for bicycles is the record for the longest distance cycled in one hour on a bicycle.
The first recorded hour record was in 1876 when F. L. Dodds rode 26.508 kilometres on a penny-farthing bicycle.
Many people since then have tried to be the fastest.
People trying to break the record have helped to change bicycle designs.
In 1972, the Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx set a record of 49.431 kilometres.
It was the record for twelve years.
Since that time technology has allowed much more aerodynamic bicycle designs.
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the group that controls the sport of cycling, has made rules to make cyclists ride cycles similar to Merckx's bicycle.
Instead there is now another record, the International Human Powered Vehicle Association (IHVA) hour record, for other designs.
The hour record for regular bicycles is called the UCI record.
Ondřej Sosenka holds the UCI hour record at 49.700 kilometres.
Sam Whittingham holds the IHVA hour record at 86.752 kilometres.
The Billie Jean King Cup is the premier team competition in women's tennis, launched in 1963 as the Federation Cup to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF).
The competition name changed to Fed Cup in 1995, and then to its current name, honoring American tennis great and women's rights advocate Billie Jean King, in September 2020.
Kateryna Volodymyrivna Bondarenko  (, born 8 August 1986) is a professional female tennis player from Ukraine and a doubles champion at Australian Open in 2008.
The younger sister of Alyona Bondarenko, she was born in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.
She plays right-handed and turned pro in 2000.
Port Arthur naval base in Manchuria, now called Lüshunkou
Port Arthur massacre (China) in the Sino-Japanese War in 1894
Battle of Port Arthur, a sea battle in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904
Siege of Port Arthur a land battle in 1904