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The Pittsburgh Pirates from 1937–39 and Pittsburgh Raiders in 1944–45 continued professional basketball in the city in the National Basketball League. Pittsburgh had one of the founding members of what became the NBA, the Pittsburgh Ironmen however only played a single season 1947–48
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The fountain in Point State Park, which sprays water up to 150 feet (46 m) in the air at the head of the Ohio River. The location of the fountain at the tip of the Point previously served as a connector for two old bridges, the Manchester Bridge (over the Allegheny River) and Point Bridge (over the Monongahela). Both were removed in 1970 to ...
Up until the post Civil War era, most of this valley was farm land and small surface or near-surface mining areas. Starting with the industrial boom that the Civil War demanded, the area rich in coal (a key industrial component for steel and iron making and thus the linchpin for most major industrial concerns) grew rapidly along the rivers of the region.
1916 – The River States Conference was founded as the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (KIAC). Charter members included Berea College, Centre College, Georgetown College, Kentucky Wesleyan College, the University of Louisville, Ogden College, Transylvania University, and Western Kentucky State Teachers College (now Western Kentucky University) beginning with the 1916–17 ...
Fox Valley Lutheran graduate Adam Cootway, right, has a .333 batting average and .500 on-base percentage for the Fond du Lac Dock Spiders this season.
Ohio Valley Greyhounds; Established 1999 Folded 2007 Played in Wheeling, West Virginia at the WesBanco Arena: League/conference affiliations; Indoor Football League 1999–2000. National Indoor Football League 2001–2004. United Indoor Football 2005–2007
They are a member of the Ohio Valley League. [1] The Chiefs has been the primary nickname for various Paducah teams, who began play in 1897. Early incarnations of the Paducah Chiefs played in the Kentucky–Illinois–Tennessee League (KITTY League) in 1903 and 1912–1913, and in the Mississippi–Ohio Valley League in 1949–1950.