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the highest level of a field of endeavor
when you've landed a tenure-track position at that university, you're playing in the major leagues
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Its YouTube platform continues to gain screen time with viewers and stands to grow even more as the company looks to acquire major league sports rights.
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Zev Fima, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2024
All told, Las Vegas has added three major league sports teams in the past decade, two of which are recent champions, Bailey Schulz reports.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024
Left fielder Al Gionfriddo — in what turned out to be his last major league game — raced to the bullpen fence (415 feet from home plate) to rob DiMaggio of the home run.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
Encouraged by the financial success of the Braves’ relocation from Boston to Milwaukee in 1953, O’Malley saw Los Angeles, which had no major league franchise, as the perfect site for a stadium and a new chapter in the Dodgers’ history.
—Jamie Barton, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
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Zev Fima, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2024
All told, Las Vegas has added three major league sports teams in the past decade, two of which are recent champions, Bailey Schulz reports.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024
Left fielder Al Gionfriddo — in what turned out to be his last major league game — raced to the bullpen fence (415 feet from home plate) to rob DiMaggio of the home run.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
Encouraged by the financial success of the Braves’ relocation from Boston to Milwaukee in 1953, O’Malley saw Los Angeles, which had no major league franchise, as the perfect site for a stadium and a new chapter in the Dodgers’ history.
—Jamie Barton, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
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