noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a football league (= a group of football teams who play against each other )
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The Premier League is one of the most popular football leagues in the world.
a league game (= played as part of a league competition )
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There's a big league game against Chelsea on Saturday.
bush league
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bush league reporting
Football League/Masters/Heisman etc Trophy (= the name given to a particular competition for which the prize is a trophy )
Ivy League, the
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an Ivy League college
league football (= in a football league )
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He was still playing league football at the age of 41.
league table
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The government’s school league tables are published today.
Major Leagues
Minor Leagues
Rugby League
the League championship (= for a particular group of teams or players )
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the Football League Championship
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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I get carried away, but I must learn now it's the big league .
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Strahler lasts one more year in the big leagues .
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Skerne Iron Works somehow failed to expand properly to make the big league .
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Besides, none of us is really in the big leagues of typing, anyway.
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But it was the launch of the Plus 8 in September 1968 that shoved Morgan into the big boots league .
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The major adjustment to life in the big leagues has been mental, Owens said.
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With plans to add another 100 staff by April, it is on the cusp of breaking into the big league .
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He has big-league power stuff but has a history of injury problems.
bottom
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Britain lags behind its competitors in every measure and is bottom of the league table.
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They are bottom of the league for 16 to 19-year-old education and training.
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We're bottom of the league right now.
different
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But this is in a different league from a full-size Pressurized Water Reactor.
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At the same time, its nuclear arsenal puts it in a qualitatively different league from its capitalist competitors.
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Believe me, the new car is in a different league and much bigger.
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In many ways, caffeine is in a different league from other recreational drugs.
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However, even PageMaker is in a different league compared to Ventura.
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As with the designated hitter, there would be different rules in different leagues .
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And that puts it in a different league from other singles.
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But his night of sleaze in Bangkok plunges him into a different league .
major
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The year before that, 1946, baseball allowed a black man into its major league for the first time.
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This is a much more predictable menace, however, at least to those in major league baseball.
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The alternative: lose two major league franchises.
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He has worked in middle relief throughout his four major league seasons, all with Milwaukee, and has no saves.
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The Mets led the major leagues in come-from-behind victories this season.
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There will never be a wild card in major league baseball, skeptics scoffed.
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When major league baseball began divisional play in 1969, there was, after some initial grumbling, little complaint.
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The concept of interleague play in major league baseball is certainly intriguing, worthy of serious consideration.
minor
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Another minor hockey league out in the middle of nowhere.
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The use of smokeless tobacco is now banned in the minor leagues .
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He is currently a pitching instructor for the Tampa Yankees, a minor league team.
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Claire is likely to return them to the minor leagues .
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Nothing he does is minor league .
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Just a couple of years later, he was about the best player in the lower minor leagues .
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It was truly the minor leagues .
national
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Oxford want to prove why they're ready to join the national league next season.
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It's totally impractical for them to enter their own national leagues , we all know that.
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They should shift to their own national leagues .
premier
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What is the fastest goal in the premier league so far this season?
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You're right about it being good just to be in the premier league and be one of the better teams.
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Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league ... maybe Keith Scott can keep them there!
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In short, it is good second division stuff, probably worth a Nobel prize, but not in the premier league .
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The prize at the end of the campaign trail is premier league football next season.
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Although journalists have placed Bristol in the premier league , there is no room for complacency.
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In their third premier league match, Swindon Town faced Liverpool, who brought three thousand supporters with them.
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It was charged with the objective of bringing Britain into the premier league for skills.
top
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When it comes to being selfish then you're top of the league .
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The 1991 World Cup generated unprecedented interest in rugby union and planted the sport firmly in the top league of spectator sports.
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Andy Mutch says every young lad wants to play in the top league and he is looking forward to it.
■ NOUN
baseball
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The new economics of major league baseball also work against inner-city talent, Towers says.
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Louis Cardinals major league baseball team.
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This is a much more predictable menace, however, at least to those in major league baseball .
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The 2001 season was canceled when a potential owner of the independent-league baseball team pulled out of a deal.
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Tuesday marks year number 50 since Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball .
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There will never be a wild card in major league baseball , skeptics scoffed.
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When major league baseball began divisional play in 1969, there was, after some initial grumbling, little complaint.
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The concept of interleague play in major league baseball is certainly intriguing, worthy of serious consideration.
championship
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He won four league championships as a manager.
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Mr ferguson has won an astonishing one league championship in only his seven years at Old Trafford.
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That means the Bangor club have lifted a double-double in league championship and cup competition this season.
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Amongst adult clubs, there was some success as well when Manchester Deaf F.C. won their local hearing league championship .
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They have never won the league championship .
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But Huddersfield lost and Leeds won, to take the subsidiary league championship outright, with 15 points from 10 games.
club
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In the nick of time: according to one recent report 80 out of 92 league clubs are technically insolvent.
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I never discovered whether Mr Cory supported Plymouth Argyle, our nearest league club .
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Johnrose, 22, has scored ten goals in 35 league appearance at Blackburn, his only league club .
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It is the first time since 1958-59 that league clubs have failed to survive until after Christmas.
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Ofahengaue gives All Black Bernie McCahill a taste of the explosive power that has captivated league clubs .
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In that case, the plaintiff was a professional footballer registered with a league club , Newcastle United.
football
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A round-robin is like a football league .
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Tears at Halifax, where Hereford's win meant the Yorkshire side go out of the football league .
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If they beat Halifax, then the Yorkshire side are kicked out of the football league .
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It is probably one of the newest purpose built grounds in the Football league and can hold about 12,000 spectators.
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Meanwhile the Deesiders have fixed up four attractive preseason friendlies against football league opposition at Holywell Road.
game
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Flanker Fox tested positive for the banned stimulant ephedrine following Neath's opening league game against Pontypridd on September 5.
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He managed his last major league game for the San Francisco Giants 20 years ago.
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Alton have three league games left and will looking to improve their points tally.
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Their first league game was played at the beginning of September, at the Glenpatrick Road pitch.
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Worked-out by the all-conquering micro-chip this gives Durham four home fixtures, including two Sunday league games , by April 26.
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It's five league games without a win now.
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We haven't lost in 13 league games 8 of which are wins.
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But this is no league game .
games
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Alton have three league games left and will looking to improve their points tally.
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Rochford ran in a couple more tries, condemning Chelmsford to a fifth defeat in nine league games .
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Worked-out by the all-conquering micro-chip this gives Durham four home fixtures, including two Sunday league games , by April 26.
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Crosby has 18 players in his squad all fighting to make a Wembley impression in the remaining four league games .
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It's five league games without a win now.
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We haven't lost in 13 league games 8 of which are wins.
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Ball retention was poor and they will have to improve on this for the league games .
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The previous record had been set by Fiorentina, who went 40 league games without defeat in 1955-56.
goal
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He's not let a league goal in yet.
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The fact that he scored 20 of his team's 48 league goals last season underlines that fact.
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At a guess he must have scored about 65 league goals in about 115 games + around 10 more in other matches.
leader
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Last weekend they huffed and puffed at the unbeaten league leaders Wasps and were within one try of blowing them down.
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The gap between Nottingham and the league leaders was indistinguishable, apart from scrummaging.
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The draw left both clubs on fifteen points, three behind league leaders Aberdeen.
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His immediate task is to get his team in shape for the visit of league leaders Newcastle United on Saturday.
match
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The team lost nine of their last 11 league matches and have now won only seven out of 49.
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Richardson Report: Gloucester's league match at Saracens was a cliff hanger right until the very last kick of the game.
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In the fourth division, Hereford United play their first home league match of the New Year.
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In the event he need not have worried as Liverpool won six of their remaining seven league matches and drew the other.
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So Last night's league match at the Link Centre in Swindon was curtain up on a dress rehearsal.
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There's one league match in January, but the crunch comes in April.
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Thus went Celtic's chance of beating Jock Stein's record of an opening unbeaten run of 16 league matches .
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Saints have arranged their league match at Leigh for Wednesday, November 11.
rugby
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Then Karam went to rugby league and the All Black position was again open.
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All that is motivated by their desire to compete against rugby league .
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The other code, rugby league , flourishes here in a somewhat different aspect.
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The school can boast of the first secondary school girls' rugby league team.
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Davies can at least reflect that after tomorrow, his rugby league education will be complete.
table
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The league table below takes this into account.
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Britain lags behind its competitors in every measure and is bottom of the league table .
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Scores are not ranked into a league table .
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This will probably have a worse risk-benefit trade off than the formalised use of league tables .
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Testing and league tables were established for the consumer and were supposed to make schools more accountable to parents.
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Dame Jill Knight I thank my right hon. Friend on behalf of the west midlands, which is also high in the league table .
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That's why we're so very alarmed at the Government's new league tables .
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The exam league tables have also been given a black mark by teaching unions.
team
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The same situation exists in soccer where some 90-odd league teams are far too many.
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Once you signed with a major league team , you were theirs in perpetuity to do with as they saw fit.
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The school can boast of the first secondary school girls' rugby league team .
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But on his city league team he had no drive, no hustle.
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Springand summer-league teams have road schedules that make some Division I schools look like stay-at-homes.
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They just finished playing on the same winter league team , which Ortiz said improved his fielding.
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He is currently a pitching instructor for the Tampa Yankees, a minor league team .
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The select team could be the Suns' summer league team, but Nelson said the league may not approve that idea.
title
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I believe that one day Manchester United will again win the league title .
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The Bulls are a tribe on a sacred journey, which is their fourth league title in six years.
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Shades of Manchester United and that elusive league title ?
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Ironically when Randalstown first won the league title two seasons Victorians again held the key to their title victory.
win
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It was United's first league win and their points of the new season.
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Their last league win , 3-2 against Southend 8 weeks ago.
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But what better place for Swindon to score their first league win of the season.
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In the fourth division Hereford scored their first league win of the year.
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Quins led 20-7 at the break, but Rugby scored 22 points in the second half to record their second league win .
■ VERB
lead
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Micah Blunt and Martin Clark led the league leaders' scorers with 20 points each.
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As a rookie, he made seven interceptions and led the league in punt returns and kickoff returns.
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In last weekend's round of matches Bayern defeated Porz, who led the league by one point.
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The Raiders lead the league with 11 plays of 40 yards or more.
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Arizona was leading the league in foreclosures and bankruptcies.
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The Mets led the major leagues in come-from-behind victories this season.
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Then, last year, she led the league in hitting again, but was left off the All-Stars.
play
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They play Cardiff in the league .
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Soccer always has been a game played enthusiastically in youth leagues around the country.
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In the fourth division, Hereford United play their first home league match of the New Year.
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In San Diego County, some 30, 000 kids play in organized soccer leagues , they said.
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He played league football at 50.
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Rivera had a chance to play major league ball last year, and in a pennant race yet.
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Very few people want to play rugby league .
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Why, if a league player wants a game, does he not play amateur league?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Major Leagues
the Minor Leagues
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Leaders of the Football League met to discuss the problems of violence at football games.
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Morocco is a member of the Arab League .
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The League of Nations was formed to promote international peace and security.
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the League of Women Voters
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the National Football League