<p>The Playoff Bowl was a third-place decider gameplayed after the end of the regular season. Officially acknowledged as the Bert Bell Profit Bowl, it was contested ten times, from the 1960 season to the1969 season, and all games were held atthe Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida.</p>
<p>From 1946 to his death in October 1959, Bert Bell served as NFL Commissioner. In much of the 1940s, he was a co-founder of the Philadelphia Eagles and a partner of the Pittsburgh Steelers. His death occurred during a game between Philadelphia’s Eagles vs Steelers. In the 1960s, more than a million dollars were donated to Bert Bell players’pension system.</p>
<p>After the National Football League(NFL) and theAmerican Football League(AFL) combined into one league in 1970, called the National Football League, there was discussion about continuing the Playoff Bowl, with the losers of theAFCandNFCChampionship Games playing each other during the idle week before theSuper Bowl. However, it was decided that a”losers’ game” may not attract many fans, and thus, the Playoff Bowl wasabolished.</p>
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<figure class="image">   <figure class="image"><img loading="lazy" data-height="410" data-width="740" data-size="w:740,h:410" hspace="5" vspace="5" src="https://ds-images.bolavip.com/news/image?src=https://images.bolavip.com/webp/en/full/BUS_20201221_BUS_167066_dallas_cowboys_danny_villanueva_in_action_vs_baltimore_colts_at_orange_bowl_stadium_in_1966__xgettyx.jpg_20222851_ef8e8714.webp&amp;width=740&amp;height=410" width="740" height="410"></figure><figcaption>    Dallas Cowboys Danny Villanueva in action vs Baltimore Colts at Orange Bowl Stadium in 1966. (Getty)   </figcaption></figure>
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<h2>How manyPlayoff Bowls wereplayed and when?</h2>
<p>Ten Playoff Bowls were played in the history of the competition, all held attheOrange Bowl in Miami, Florida,The games took place the week after the NFLchampionship game. The only exception to this was the final game ever, which took place the day before the NFL title game. Another competition followed called theNFL’sPro Bowl, which served as an all-stargame, and was played aweek after the Playoff Bowl.</p>
<p>The firstPlayoff Bowl, contested by the Detroit Lions andthe Cleveland Browns, was played onJanuary 7, 1961;theDetroit Lions won 17-16. The next one was played onJanuary 6, 1962, and the Detroit Lions clinched their second titleafter beating thePhiladelphia Eagles38-10. The Lions secured their third consecutivePlayoff Bowl trophy on January 6, 1963, when they were the better side against the Pittsburgh Steelers (17-10).</p>
<p>OnJanuary 5, 1964, the fourthPlayoff Bowl took place; theGreen Bay Packers beat the Cleveland Browns40-23. The fifth followed onJanuary 3, 1965, as this time, theGreen Bay Packers were a defeated side by St. Louis Cardinals (24-17). The Baltimore Colts celebrated an astonishing 35-3win vs theDallas Cowboys in the sixth edition played on January 9, 1966, in whatwas the most-watched game in the competition’s history with an attendance of 65,569.</p>
<p>TheBaltimore Colts continued their run, this time beating the Philadelphia Eagles 20-14, on January 8, 1967, in the seventhPlayoff Bowl. January 7, 1968, was the date for the eighth series, as theLos Angeles Rams smashed the Cleveland Browns30-6. TheDallas Cowboys made the headlines on January 5, 1969, after triumphing over theMinnesota Vikings 17-13 in the ninthPlayoff Bowl. Eventually, the final edition belonged to the Los Angeles Rams who ruthlessly trashed theDallas Cowboys 31-0 in the tenthPlayoff Bowl, played onJanuary 3, 1970.</p>

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<p>The World Series, which since 1903 has been scheduledbetween the champion teams of the American League (AL) and the National League, is the <a href="https://bolavip.com/en/mlb-t48464" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Annual Major League Baseball Championship Series</a> of both the United States and Canada (NL). The winner of the World Series Championship is decided by the <a href="https://bolavip.com/en/mlb/2021-mlb-playoff-format-how-the-baseball-postseason-will-be-played-20210331-0008.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">best-of-seven playoffs</a>, and the winning team is awarded the Commissioner’s Cup.</p>
<p>Since the series is played in North America during the fall season, it is often referred to as the Fall Classic. Since 2017, it has been formally recognized as the World Series presented by YouTube TV for sponsorship purposes. Before the two teams being divided into divisions in 1969, the team with the better regular-season win-loss record in each league directly advanced to the World Series, barring a tie involving a pennant playoff.</p>
<p>There have been 116 World Series games so far,66 of them have won the AL, and 50 the NL. The house-field advantage between the National League and the American League in the World Series was rotating year by year until 2002. The league that dominated the All-Star Game from 2003 to 2016 was awarded home-field advantage. The home advantage of the title team of the league with a superior record for winning every regular season was awarded beginning in 2017, even when all games for the 2020 season were hosted at a neutrally situated ballpark.</p>
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<figure class="image">   <figure class="image"><img loading="lazy" data-height="410" data-width="740" data-size="w:740,h:410" hspace="5" vspace="5" src="https://ds-images.bolavip.com/news/image?src=https://images.bolavip.com/webp/en/full/BUS_20201221_BUS_167030_max_scherzer_of_the_washington_nationals_celebrates_in_the_locker_room_after_defeating_the_houston_astros_to_win_the_2019_world_series__xgettyx_1.jpg_20222851_d0e7e98e.webp&amp;width=740&amp;height=410" width="740" height="410"></figure><figcaption>    Max Scherzer of the Washington Nationals celebrates in the locker room after defeating the Houston Astros to win the 2019 World Series. (Getty)   </figcaption></figure>
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<h2>Why do they call the World Series winners World Champions and when did it start happening?</h2>
<p>The alleged lack of rivalry from the globe led to North American media’s longstanding, and contentious practice of using the phrase “World Champions.”Today, in the United States, the sentence is more common but remains appropriate in Canada. Yet non-Americans typically ridicule this practice.</p>
<p>The usage of the term in baseball, which later became known as the World Series, begins with the organization of the National League and the earlier American Association championship series in the 1880s. The Major League Baseball later developed a four-year worldwide series dubbed The World Baseball Classic in order for a club tobecome a real World Champion.</p>
<p>In the 1950s, the recently founded <a href="https://bolavip.com/en/nba-t19117" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBA</a> used the term “World Champions.” The <a href="https://bolavip.com/en/super-bowl-t64781" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Super Bowl</a>, the <a href="https://bolavip.com/en/nfl-t20281" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NFL</a>-American Football League championship, has been specifically called after its first-round the World Championship Game.</p>
<p>In <a href="https://bolavip.com/en/nhl-t144419" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hockey</a>, the Stanley Cup was originally open only to Canadian clubs, but in 1914, the Cup trustees allowed American teams to participate, with the requirement that the Stanley Cup winners would be recognized as World Champions. However, since 1976, in honor of the Stanley Cup winners,they have stopped calling the winners “World Champions”, and have thus changed it to “Stanley Cup Champions”.</p>

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<p>The Australian Open is an annual tennis tournament in Melbourne Park in Australia in the last two weeks of January. The tournament is the first of the 4 Grand Slam tennis tournaments that precede the French Open, Wimbledon, and the American Open every year.</p>
<p>Itincludes men’s and women’s singles; men’s tournaments, women’s, and mixed doubles, wheelchair championships, and friendly exhibitions. It has been played on grassy courts since 1988, but since that time there have been three different forms of hardcourt: the green-colored Rebound Ace until 2007, the blue Plexicushion until 2019, and the blue GreenSet since 2020.</p>
<p>The tournament was initially foundedas the AustralasianChampionships, then in 1927, it was changed to the Australian Championships. The name Australian Open has officially been in use ever since1969. The Australian Open has been staged in fiveAustralian towns since 1905: Adelaide, Brisbane,Melbourne, Sydney, Perth.</p>
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<h2>Australian Open: How and where to watch in the UK?</h2>
<p>Thefirst Grand Slam of the season, the Australian Open 2021, to be playedfrom February 8 to 21,at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, will be broadcasted onEurosport, Eurosport Playerin the United Kingdom. In fact, Eurosport has been airing the Australian Open inthe UK for more than 25 years, since 1995.</p>
<p>In 2015, Eurosports’ rights with the Australian Openwere extended to 2021, with exclusive live rights for main warm-up tournaments on all screens.Thanks to this tournament,Eurosport showed a year-on-year rise of 35% in its uniquevisitors. The Australian Open coverage for Eurosport 1 rose 4% in 2019 with a +18% rise in the UK.</p>
<p>In compliance with the regulatory requirements of Australian public health and Immigration authorities, the Australian Open men’s qualification is held in Doha from 10-13 January and the allotted dates from 15-31 January will allow the players to travel in Melbourne and the support staff to undergo 14 days of quarantine.</p>

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<p>The<strong><a href="https://bolavip.com/en/olympics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Summer Olympic Games</a></strong>are usually held once every four years as a major international sporting multi-event. The first games took place in Athens, Greece in 1896, and most recently in Paris, France, in 2024.</p>
<p>The scale of the Olympics has grown from a 42 sport event program in 1896 to more than 300 competitions with more than 11,000 athletes, reaching gender parity in <strong>Paris 2024</strong>. What hasn’t changed in a while is the leader in theOlympics all-time medal table, with the United States still in control.</p>
<p>Since 1986, theUSAhave featured in 29 Summer Olympic Games so far. In 19of them, they have ranked first. This dominance comes thanks to the performance from its athletes in different events.</p>
<h2>Summer Olympics: How many medals do the USA have?</h2>
<p>A total of 2,649medals have been gathered by the US athletesthroughout the Olympic Summer Gameshistory.1,062 of them are gold medals, 839silver medals, and a number of 748have been bronze medals.</p>
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<h2>Summer Olympics: The USA vs Russia</h2>
<p>Russia in all its existence as part of the Soviet Union have had an arch rivalry with the US for many years now. The beginning of their rivalry dates back to the Cold War when they formed a deep rivalry. Frictions weakened during the 1990s, but the bond got broken again in 2014 and in 2016.</p>
<p>The Russian Federation, the Russian Empire, and the Russian Olympic Athletes are frequently mixed outside IOC outlets. Russian Athletes have so far appeared at the OIC for five different teams, as the Soviet Union, Russia, Unified Team, Russian Empire, and Olympic Athletes from Russia.</p>
<p>Thus, Russia have gathered a total of 1556 Summer Olympic Games medals, 590 of which gold, 486 silver, and 480 bronze. Their most successful form was while being part of the URS, winning a total of 1010 medals.</p>
<p>At Paris 2024, Russian athletes competed under the name “Individual Neutral Athletes,” referred to as AIN from the French term, Athlètes Individuels Neutres. This came after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.</p>

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