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“There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA, and we strongly denounce the bad-faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others,” a league spokesperson said last week in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Sports teams, including minor league hockey team the San Diego Gulls, play at the Pechanga Arena.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The regulations direct the EFL board to take into account a number of factors, including "the need to protect the integrity and continuity of the competition" and "the reputation of the league".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
After all, Chelsea’s owner, the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, had been the man who fired him after winning two league titles three years earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
About half the school had joined the league; of those, a few had fallen away, and of the rest, a few had given in and joined.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
Once we’re leagued up, we’ll post the results, and there’ll be a weekly column here summing up the score, the scenario, and the stats.
From The Verge ● Feb. 28, 2019
He may be leagued with his appointees to abstract and share a larger percentage of the assets than the law allows, thus cheating legitimate creditors.
From Time Magazine Archive
The interests leagued against Wiley, finally manufactured charges that he had misused the funds of his Bureau; and, though exonerated by President Taft after a careful investigation had been made, he resigned in protest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other Post stockholders leagued to announce that Newhouse's 15% invasion was as far as he would be allowed to go.
From Time Magazine Archive
Big-hoofed gray horses spackled like wolves, that rolled their eyes and whinnied at my footfall, leagued with men as if strapped to their business by harness I could not see.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
Meanwhile Modred had stirred up a revolt, and leaguing himself with the Saxon invaders, had usurped Arthur's throne.
From Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson by William Wordsworth
The old self-depreciation waking up to life, the old enemy leaguing with languor and despondency to mar the sweet hopefulness of convalescence.
From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Rosa Nouchette Carey
Next, a charge was brought that he had been leaguing with a half-crazy woman called the Nun of Kent, who had said violent things about the King.
From A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte Mary Yonge
The personal advancement of the southern Hy-Nials was more to him than the political advancement of his country; and he disgraced his name and his nation by leaguing with the invaders.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
Ho, ye, Of God the least beloved, of Man the most, That like not leaguing with the lesser host, Behold the invested Mount, And that assaulting Sea with ne’er a coast.
From The Unknown Eros by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
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