question: turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken

answers: Turducken

title: Thanksgiving dinner

text: with pigeon peas) or arroz con maiz (rice with corn), pasteles (root tamales) stuffed with turkey, pumpkin-coconut crème caramel, corn bread with longaniza, potato salad, roasted white sweet potatoes and Spanish sparkling hard cider. Turkey in Puerto Rico is stuffed with mofongo. Cuban-Americans traditionally serve the turkey alongside a small roasted pork and include white rice and black beans or kidney beans. Vegetarians or vegans have been known to serve alternative entree centerpieces such as a large vegetable pie or a stuffed and baked pumpkin or tofu substitutes. Many Midwesterners (such as Minnesotans) of Norwegian or Scandinavian descent set the

title: Turducken

text: chicken stuffed with a pigeon, with sage and apple stuffing) in 1990. Multi-bird roasts are widely available. In his 1807 "Almanach des Gourmands", gastronomist Grimod de La Reynière presents his "rôti sans pareil" ("roast without equal")—a bustard stuffed with a turkey, a goose, a pheasant, a chicken, a duck, a guinea fowl, a teal, a woodcock, a partridge, a plover, a lapwing, a quail, a thrush, a lark, an ortolan bunting and a garden warbler—although he states that, since similar roasts were produced by ancient Romans, the "rôti sans pareil" was not entirely novel. The final bird is very small

title: Salvadoran cuisine

text: ("stuffed bread") are warm submarine sandwiches. The turkey or chicken is marinated and then roasted with Pipil spices and hand-pulled. This sandwich is traditionally served with turkey or chicken, tomato, and watercress along with cucumber, cabbage, and traditional stuffed panes does not include Mayonnaise]. Other well-known Salvadoran dishes include "carne guisada" (saucy beef with potatoes and carrots), "lomo entomatado" (beef with tomatoes), "carne asada" (grilled steak, usually served with a type of Salvadoran salsa called "chimol"), "pasteles de carne" (meat pies), "pollo guisado con hongos" (chicken with mushrooms), "pacaya planta" (palm flowers breaded in cornmeal, fried and served with tomato

title: Stuffing

text: is mentioned in T.C. Boyle's book "Water Music". British celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has championed the ten-bird roast, calling it "one of the most spectacular and delicious roasts you can lay before your loved ones at Yuletide". A large turkey is stuffed with a goose, duck, mallard, guinea fowl, chicken, pheasant, partridge, pigeon, and woodcock. The roast feeds approximately 30 people and, as well as the ten birds, includes stuffing made from two pounds of sausage meat and half a pound of streaky bacon, along with sage, and port and red wine. In the United States and eastern Canada, multi-bird

title: Three Emperors Dinner

text: and the breasts are thinly sliced and arranged around the stuffing. The remaining carcass is pressed in a poultry press to extract all the juices and is added to a Rouennaise sauce, which is poured over the sliced duck. (This dish is today the speciality of the house at "La Tour d'Argent".) Ortolans sur canapés, ortolans (now a protected species) on toast. Aubergines à l'espagnole is a dish of aubergine shells filled with chopped aubergine, tomato and ham, gratinéed with gruyère. Cassolette princesse, (a.k.a. Cassolette argenteuil), A cassolette with a border of duchesse potatoes and an asparagus filling in cream

title: Three Emperors Dinner

text: consisting of tomato, red bell pepper, garlic, origanum, paprika, cayenne pepper, brown sugar, lemon juice, white wine, chicken stock and olive oil, stuffed with tomato flavoured rice. Pâté chaud de cailles is warm pâté of quail. Homard à la parisienne is lobster cooked in court bouillon, cut into slices and glazed with aspic, with a garnish of tomatoes stuffed with a macédoine of vegetables, dressed with a mixture of mayonnaise and aspic and garnished with sliced truffle. Canetons à la rouennaise is a dish of roast duckling stuffed with forcemeat. The legs and breasts are removed, the legs are grilled

title: Turducken

text: but large enough to just hold an olive; it also suggests that, unlike modern multi-bird roasts, there was no stuffing or other packing placed in between the birds. "Gooducken" is a goose stuffed with a duck, which is in turn stuffed with a chicken. An early form of the recipe was "Pandora's cushion", a goose stuffed with a chicken stuffed with a quail. Another version of the dish is credited to French diplomat and gourmand Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. The 1891 newspaper article "French Legends Of The Table" offers "Quail a la Talleyrand": The following for instance, is Talleyrand's fanciful

title: Mlinci

text: can also be quickly fried in poultry fat. Turkey with "mlinci" is a Croatian folk-cuisine specialty, especially in Zagorje and Slavonia. In Slovenia, duck or goose with "mlinci" is traditionally eaten on St. Martin's Day. In Serbia, they are usually prepared in the province of Vojvodina, where they are served with a pork or chicken fillet in smetana sauce. "Mlinci" can also be served by soaking the dried pieces in the drippings from roast meats. The roast meat is removed from the pan and the broken pieces are placed in the fat in the tray, and then baked for a

title: Stuffed eggplant

text: Stuffed eggplant Stuffed eggplants (, Iran: Karni Yarikh, , ) are a dish typical of many countries. Eggplants are stuffed with meat (lamb) and rice. In Turkey, this dish is called Patlican dolmasi. The ingredients include eggplant, minced meat, rice, onion, tomato paste, tomato, parsley, mint, salt, black pepper and sunflower oil. Optional ingredients include sumac, lemon juice, allspice, cinnamon, pine nuts, almonds, walnuts, mint, and olive oil which may be added for a better taste. Eggplants are stuffed with meat (lamb or beef) and bulgur or rice but a bit distinctly than its neighbors because of a wider use

title: Dolma

text: from the local mulberry trees. Stuffed vine leaves without meat are sometimes called "yalancı dolma", which means "liar's dolma" in Turkish. "Vişneli yalancı dolması" is a variation of stuffed vine leaves where the rice is seasoned with cinnamon, allspice and mint. The dolmas are slowly cooked together with morello cherries ("vişne"), and plums may be used also. A modern Israeli recipe has a meat-filled variant served in a pomegranate sauce with dried cherries. In Persian cuisine "basuts dolma" is a dish of cabbage rolls stuffed with beans and tart fruits. In Armenia, it is called Lenten Dolma or Pasuts Tolma

title: Náncsi Néni (restaurant)

text: Among the highlights of the menu are the húsleves (chicken broth), gulyas soup, pike perch, stuffed turkey breast, catfish paprikas, goose liver marinated in grape juice, and the famous túrógombóc, coated with breadcrumbs, caster sugar, and sour cream. The restaurant tries to offer the type of food that one would eat in a traditional Hungarian home, but also serves international cuisine, especially French. Depending on the season, seafood and game are also part of the menu. Náncsi Néni serves pálinka, the traditional Hungarian plum brandy, and a wide selection of local and international wines, selected by the Hungarian Wine Society.

title: Stuffing

text: Stuffing Stuffing or filling is an edible substance or mixture, normally consisting primarily of small cut-up pieces of bread or a similar starch and served as a side dish or used to fill a cavity in another food item while cooking. Many foods may be stuffed, including eggs, poultry, seafood, mammals, and vegetables, but chickens and turkey are the most common. Stuffing serves the dual purpose of helping to keep the meat moist while also adding to the mix of flavours of both the stuffing and the thing it is stuffed in. Poultry stuffing often consists of dried breadcrumbs, onion,

title: Stuffing

text: (1538), "forcemeat" (1688), and relatively more recently in the United States; "dressing" (1850). In addition to stuffing the body cavity of animals, including birds, fish, and mammals, various cuts of meat may be stuffed after they have been deboned or a pouch has been cut into them. Popular recipes include stuffed chicken legs, stuffed pork chops, stuffed breast of veal, as well as the traditional holiday stuffed turkey or goose. Many types of vegetables are also suitable for stuffing, after their seeds or flesh has been removed. Tomatoes, capsicums (sweet or hot peppers), vegetable marrows (e.g., zucchini) may be prepared

title: Stuffing

text: in this way. Cabbages and similar vegetables can also be stuffed or wrapped around a filling. They are usually blanched first, in order to make their leaves more pliable. Then, the interior may be replaced by stuffing, or small amounts of stuffing may be inserted between the individual leaves. It is sometimes claimed that ancient Roman and medieval cooks stuffed animals with other animals. An anonymous Andalusian cookbook from the 13th century includes a recipe for a ram stuffed with small birds. A similar recipe for a camel stuffed with sheep stuffed with bustards stuffed with carp stuffed with eggs

title: Turducken

text: Turducken is a dish consisting of a deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck, further stuffed into a deboned turkey.  Outside of the United States and Canada, it is known as a three bird roast. Gooducken is a traditional English variant, replacing turkey with goose.

title: Christmas dinner

text: vegetables. The Irish Christmas dinner which is eaten normally between 1.00 p.m. and 4.00 p.m. consists of turkey, ham, Brussels sprouts, roast potatoes, stuffing and various vegetables. The older tradition, still followed by many people in Ireland, is to serve a duck or a goose at Christmas. The dinner usually consists of roast turkey (although other poultry such as goose, chicken, duck, capon or pheasant are alternatives), sometimes with roast beef or ham or, to a lesser extent, pork. In some parts of Ireland, especially County Cork and Limerick, Spiced Beef will also be eaten. The centrepiece is typically served

title: Chicken Kiev

text: as cutlets, escalopes, sweetbreads, or chicken breasts, which are treated "à l'anglaise" ("English-style"), i.e. coated with eggs and breadcrumbs, and sautéed. Numerous recipes of such dishes, some of them with stuffings, are described both in Western and Russian cookbooks of the 19th century. Among the stuffed versions, one finds a recipe for a "fowl fillet "à la Maréchale"" stuffed with truffles and herbs in "The Art of French Cuisine of the 19th Century" (1847) by Marie-Antoine Carême, and a similar "filet de poulets à la Maréchale" with herbs and forcemeat in "La cuisine classique" (1868) by Urbain Dubois. Elena Molokhovets'

title: Dolma

text: stuffed with a filling of kashar cheese, tomato, onion, dill and parsley. In Turkey, stuffed sardines may be served as a mezze platter at traditional taverns called "meyhane". There are several varieties of dolma made with offal. "Dalak dolması", widely considered a delicacy of Armenian origin, is spleen stuffed with rice that has been seasoned with allspice, salt, pepper, mint, parsley and onion. It may be served an accompaniment with the anise-flavored liquor called "rakı". "Mumbar dolma" is intestine stuffed with a moist mixture of ground meat, rice, pepper, cumin and salt. The stuffed intestine is then boiled in water

title: Christmas dinner

text: a long time to decorate, with the remainder usually ending up on the Christmas tree as decorations. In Denmark, the traditional Christmas meal served on 24 December consists, according to one representative study, of duck (66% of households surveyed), roast pork with crackling (43%), turkey (8%), or goose (7%). The figures total more than 100% because some families prepare more than one kind of meat for Christmas dinner. The meat is served with boiled potatoes (some of which are caramelized, some roasted), red cabbage, and plenty of gravy. The main course is followed by a dessert of Risalamande, rice pudding

title: Peking duck

text: bones of ducks with vegetables. The cooked Peking Duck is traditionally carved in front of the diners and served in three stages. First, the duck skin is served with sugar and garlic sauce as dip. The skin tastes better while remaining warm, but it will cool down fast. The meat is then served with steamed pancakes (), spring onions and sweet bean sauce. Several vegetable dishes are provided to accompany the meat, typically cucumber sticks. Some restaurants offer watermelon radish sticks as alternative. The diners spread sauce over the pancake. Traditionally, the pancake is wrapped around the meat and spring

title: Christmas dinner

text: which are usually only prepared during Christmas time are romeritos, bacalao, and stuffed turkey. Tamale preparation varies from region to region. It is usual for tamale fillings to include beef or pork with red sauce, chicken with a green chile sauce or cheese with jalapeño "rajas" or strips inside a corn or rice masa and steamed inside corn husks or banana leaves. Sweet tamales filled with pineapple, raisins, strawberries, or corn are also common. Sweets such as flan, a brulee-like custard with carmelized sugar,buñuelos, fruit and milk or liquer-flavored gelatin or Champurrado. Beverages like canela (tea sweetened with pilloncillo), Rompope,

title: Stuffed peppers

text: of stuffed peppers in Bulgaria is made with mixed white cheese and eggs instead of meat and rice as stuffing. Ardei umpluţi () is Romanian for "stuffed peppers". This dish is usually prepared with bell peppers stuffed with ground meat (usually pork), rice, onion, and other vegetables and spices and then boiled in a sauce made from cream, tomatoes, and spices. Stuffed peppers in American cuisine is a dish where bell peppers (often the green, yellow, and red varieties) are typically filled with a stuffing such as ground beef, mixed with bread crumbs or cooked rice, eggs, herbs, and spices

title: Stuffing

text: filled with stuffing can present potential food safety issues. These can occur because when the meat reaches a safe temperature, the stuffing inside can still harbor bacteria (and if the meat is cooked until the stuffing reaches a safe temperature, the meat may be overcooked). For turkeys, for instance, the USDA recommends cooking stuffing/dressing separately from the bird and not buying pre-stuffed birds. (Stuffing is never recommended for turkeys to be fried, grilled, microwaved, or smoked). Stuffing Stuffing or filling is an edible substance or mixture, normally consisting primarily of small cut-up pieces of bread or a similar starch and

title: Turkey as food

text: stuffed turkey). Turkey meat has been eaten by indigenous peoples from Mexico, Central America and the southern tier of the United States since antiquity. In the 15th century, Spanish Conquistadors took Aztec turkeys back to Europe. Turkey was eaten as such as early as the 16th century in England. Before the 20th century, pork ribs were the most common food for the North American holidays, as the animals were usually slaughtered in November. Turkeys were once so abundant in the wild that they were eaten throughout the year, the food considered commonplace, whereas pork ribs were rarely available outside of

title: Peking duck

text: advanced notice. Crispy aromatic duck (香酥鴨 xiang su ya) is a similar dish to Peking duck. It is very popular in the United Kingdom, where it was created in the latter half of the twentieth century. The duck is first marinated with spices, then steamed until tender, and finally deep fried until crispy. The meat has less fat and is drier and crispier compared to that of Peking Duck. Crispy aromatic duck can also be seen in the United States, usually served with buns rather than pancakes. In Germany, some Asian fusion restaurants also serve crispy aromatic duck ("Knusprige Ente"),

title: Culture of England

text: saddle of lamb, with mint sauce or redcurrant jelly; pork, typically leg, shoulder or loin of pork, with crackling and apple sauce; honey-glazed gammon with cloves and parsley sauce; and poultry, such as chicken, duck (e.g. Aylesbury duck) and goose. Consumption of chicken increased from the 1950s when the introduction of poultry factories, pioneered in England by JB Eastwood Ltd. owned by Sir John Eastwood, significantly reduced the price. An English Christmas dinner traditionally consists of roast turkey, cranberry sauce, bread sauce, stuffing, gravy, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, chestnuts, Brussels sprouts and other vegetables. It is sometimes accompanied by

title: Turkish cuisine

text: contain meat. Spinach, leek, string bean and artichoke with olive oil are among the most widespread dishes in Turkey. Dolma is the name used for stuffed vegetables. Like the vegetables cooked with olive oil as described above dolma with olive oil does not contain meat. Many vegetables are stuffed, most typically green peppers ("biber dolması"), eggplants, tomatoes, or zucchini/courgettes ("kabak dolması"), vine leaves ("yaprak dolması"). If vine leaves are used, they are first pickled in brine. However, dolma is not limited to these common types; many other vegetables and fruits are stuffed with a meat or rice mixture. For example,

title: Tatar cuisine

text: Main dishes are usually based on meat, grains, and potatoes. Meat or chicken boiled in the broth is cut into small pieces and served as a main course, sometimes quickly fried in oil with onions, carrots, and bell peppers. Boiled potatoes are a favorite side dish, with grated horseradish served as an accompaniment. A chicken stuffed with eggs in milk ("tutırğan tawıq") is a special dish for holidays. "Bäliş" is the oldest traditional dish combining meat and grains. Pieces of fat meat (mutton, beef, goose, or goose and duck innards) are combined with grains (millet, spelt, rice) and baked in

title: Schnitzel

text: Turkey, the dish is spelled "schnitzel," "şinitzel", or "şnitzel," and pronounced in a similar way to German. It is made of chicken, and is usually served with rice, French fries, or pasta. Sometimes, it may have grilled cheese in it. It is often cooked at home, as it is an easy-to-do kind of food, but some restaurants have it on their menus. In West Ukraine (former Habsburg Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria), it is known as шніцель "shnitsel′"; in the rest of the country, it is called as відбивна "vidbyvna". It is usually made of pork, or sometimes chicken. The

title: Vine leaf roll

text: a variation of stuffed vine leaves where the rice is seasoned with cinnamon, allspice and mint. The dolmas are slowly cooked together with morello cherries ("vişne"), and plums may be used also. In a version from the Turkish chef Arda Türkmen, the rice is cooked in morello cherry juice with spices, sour pomegranate syrup ("nar ekşisi"), currants and toasted pine nuts. Vine leaves may also be used to wrap stuffed celery root. Before wrapping, the celery root is stuffed with rice that has been seasoned with cinnamon, salt, pepper, allspice, pine nuts and sugar. (This type of rice is called

title: Turducken


question: who won the first season of america's got talent

answers: Bianca Ryan

title: America's Got Talent (season 1)

text: (who played music by tapping his teeth), The Douglas Lee (who played water-filled drinking glasses), and Dave Nakfoor (who caught hard-boiled eggs in his mouth). Jessica Sanchez finished as the runner-up to Phillip Phillips on the season eleven of "American Idol". David and Dania made a cameo on Big Brother 19. America's Got Talent (season 1) The first season of "America's Got Talent" premiered on June 21, 2006 and concluded on August 17, 2006. The audition tour took place in April 2006, stopping at Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. Regis Philbin was the host for this season. David Hasselhoff,

title: America's Got Talent (season 13)

text: directly to the live shows and will not compete in the Judge Cuts round. In the first episode, Tyra Banks was the first to press the golden buzzer for acrobatic and dance group Zurcaroh. Simon Cowell was second to press it for 40-year-old singer Michael Ketterer. Howie Mandel was third to press it for 13 year old singer Courtney Hadwin. Mel B was fourth to press it for 15 year old singer Amanda Mena. Heidi Klum was the final judge to use the golden buzzer, using it for 15 year old singer Makayla Phillips. The Judge Cuts rounds began airing

title: America's Got Talent (season 9)

text: on the live shows. "Today Show" hosts Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie announced the winner on the July 30th live results show. Guests: The Rockettes, Enrique Iglesias and Sean Paul Guests: Lindsey Stirling, Lzzy Hale Guests: Kenichi Ebina, Taylor Williamson Guests: Taylor Williamson and The Illusionists Guest: Ariana Grande Snapple Save: America was allowed to vote for a contestant during each of the live semifinal shows via Google, saving them from getting eliminated. The acts that could be saved are those who finished in fifth, sixth and seventh place. At the end of the show, Nick Cannon announced who was

title: America's Got Talent (season 1)

text: Spring, Sugar n' Spice, Jessica Sanchez, N'Versity, Rabbi Baptiste, George Kelly, Andy Chitanga, Conrad Wright, Shawn Ryan, Sean and John, Natasha Le, Realis, Caitlyn Taylor Love, Marla and Michelle, Hell If I Know, Jesschelle, Trey Knight's Stilt World, Hoopalicious, and Desperation Squad. Acts that were eliminated include: Acts that advanced to the second round include: Seven additional acts from New York that also made it to the second round were briefly shown at the end of the show, since there were too many performers to fit into a one-hour episode. They include: The Hemphill Kids, Clarence Donaldson, Ten13 Concept, Billy

title: America's Got Talent (season 12)

text: of the show was the same as in season eleven, and Dunkin Donuts sponsors the show for a third consecutive season. A guest judge joined the panel for each episode of the Judge Cuts round: Chris Hardwick, DJ Khaled, Laverne Cox and Seal. Darci Lynne Farmer was named the winner on the season finale, September 20, 2017. She was the third ventriloquist, third child and third female to win a season of "America's Got Talent". 10-year-old singer Angelica Hale placed second, and glow light dance troupe Light Balance came in third. Farmer won the show's prize of $1 million and

title: America's Got Talent

text: This marks the second magician to win. Acrobatic group Zurcaroh and violinist Brian King Joseph came in second and third place respectively. Stand-up comedian Samuel J. Comroe and singer Michael Ketterer rounded out the top 5. "America's Got Talent Live" is a show on the Las Vegas Strip that features the winner of each season of "America's Got Talent" as the main performance. In 2009, "America's Got Talent Live" appeared on the Las Vegas Strip appearing Wednesday through Sunday at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, in a limited ten-week run from October through January featuring winner

title: Butterscotch (performer)

text: She gained national exposure in 2007 when she appeared on the second season of "America's Got Talent". She both sang and beatboxed, as well as a combination of the two while playing the piano, for her performances. The judges passed Butterscotch through several episodes and she was voted back by the viewers several times. She was in the final four (the last stage of the competition before the winner is announced), before being voted out by the viewers on the show which aired August 20, 2007. Official site http://www.butterscotchmusic.com Butterscotch (performer) Antoinette Clinton (born September 29, 1985), known by her

title: America's Got Talent (season 8)

text: shows from Radio City Music Hall in New York, after moving from the New Jersey Performing Arts Center last year. The 2013 winner was Kenichi Ebina, the first mime and the first foreign act to win the competition. The runner-up was comedian Taylor Williamson and singer/guitarist Jimmy Rose announced in third place. Sharon Osbourne initially stated that she would not return for season eight, but later said that she was staying with the show "for now." Osbourne confirmed that she would be leaving the show after a feud with NBC on August 6, 2012. Following her departure, Osbourne returned to

title: America's Got Talent (season 2)

text: Performance: July 24, 2007 Result: July 31, 2007 Performance: July 31, 2007 Result: August 7, 2007 Performance: August 7, 2007 Result: August 14, 2007 Performance: August 14, 2007 Result: August 21, 2007 America's Got Talent (season 2) The second season of America's Got Talent, an American television reality show talent competition, premiered on the NBC network on June 5, 2007 with a two-hour episode. Tabloid talk show host Jerry Springer succeeded Regis Philbin as host. Piers Morgan and David Hasselhoff returned as judges, joined by newcomer Sharon Osbourne. Brandy Norwood voluntarily stepped down as judge after a wrongful death lawsuit

title: America's Got Talent (season 5)

text: show is once again hosted by Nick Cannon with Sharon Osbourne and Piers Morgan as judges. Piers Morgan announced on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on July 27, 2010 that he signed a three year contract to stay on "Talent". America's Got Talent (season 5) The fifth season of America's Got Talent, an American television reality show talent competition, premiered in the United States on the NBC network and on Canada's Global on June 1, 2010. Soul singer Michael Grimm was named the winner on May 26, 2011, beating 10-year-old classical crossover singer Jackie Evancho. The season 5 selection

title: Jessica Sanchez

text: Jessica Sanchez Jessica Elizabeth Sanchez (born August 4, 1995) is an American singer and songwriter originally from Chula Vista, California. She was the runner-up on the eleventh season of the reality show "American Idol". Prior to appearing on "American Idol", Sanchez competed in the first season of "America's Got Talent" at the age of 11. Jessica Elizabeth Sanchez was born in Chula Vista, California on August 4, 1995 to parents, Edita (née Bugay) and Gilbert Sanchez. She was raised in Eastlake, Chula Vista along with two younger brothers. Her mother is a Filipina whose family is from Samal, Bataan in

title: Alexis Jordan

text: Alexis Jordan Alexis Jordan (born April 7, 1992) is an American singer and actress from Columbia, South Carolina. Jordan rose to fame as a contestant on the first season of "America's Got Talent" in 2006 at the age of 14. After being eliminated from the show, she began to upload cover songs to YouTube, which received millions of views. The exposure led Jordan to the attention of Norwegian production team Stargate and American rapper Jay Z, who both went on to sign her to their joint label, StarRoc. Her debut single, "Happiness", was released in September 2010, a feel good

title: America's Got Talent (season 12)

text: Other celebrity appearances included Marlee Matlin and Jeff Dunham. The following chart describes the acts, appearances and segments presented during the finale. America's Got Talent (season 12) Season twelve of the reality competition series "America's Got Talent" was ordered on August 2, 2016 and premiered on NBC on Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Howie Mandel, Mel B, Heidi Klum and Simon Cowell returned as judges for their respective eighth, fifth, fifth and second seasons. Supermodel and businesswoman Tyra Banks replaced Nick Cannon, who hosted for eight seasons, making her the first female host of the show and the second female to

title: America's Got Talent

text: Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, and Portland (Oregon). Non-televised producers' auditions were also held in Atlanta and Philadelphia. For the first time, online auditions were also held via YouTube. David Hasselhoff left to host a new television show and was replaced by comedian and game show host Howie Mandel. This made Piers Morgan the only original judge left in the show. The show premiered Tuesday, June 1, 2010, at 8 pm ET. Afterward, "Talent" resumed the same time slot as the previous season. On September 15, singer Michael Grimm was named the winner. He won a $1 million

title: America's Got Talent (season 1)

text: The first season of America's Got Talent premiered on June 21, 2006 and concluded on August 17, 2006. The audition tour took place in April 2006, stopping at Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. Regis Philbin was the host for this season. David Hasselhoff, Brandy Norwood, and Piers Morgan were the judges. This season's winner was Bianca Ryan.

title: America's Got Talent (season 5)

text: got to meet with and have a dinner and drinks with the judges, who offered advice to the contestants. The results show aired on Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 12:00am (1 hour) and featured performances from Sarah McLachlan and the cast of "American Idiot", determining who made the top four spots in the finals. Singing sensation Susan Boyle, who was a contestant on the third series of "Got Talent"'s sister show "Britain's Got Talent", was scheduled to perform at the results show but was not able to. The producers of the show had not been given the rights to the

title: America's Got Talent (season 5)

text: America's Got Talent (season 5) The fifth season of America's Got Talent, an American television reality show talent competition, premiered in the United States on the NBC network and on Canada's Global on June 1, 2010. Soul singer Michael Grimm was named the winner on May 26, 2011, beating 10-year-old classical crossover singer Jackie Evancho. The season 5 selection process appears to carry over that of the past two seasons, but the Las Vegas Round was changed to that of the second and third seasons, which gave the performers a second chance to showcase their act. Instead of an audition

title: America's Got Talent

text: Kevin Skinner, runner-up Barbara Padilla and fourth-place finisher The Texas Tenors. It featured the final ten acts which made it to the season four (2009) finale. Jerry Springer emceed, commuting weekly between Stamford, Connecticut, tapings of his self-named show and Las Vegas. In 2010, on the first live show of season five, the winner headlined "America's Got Talent Live" from Caesars Palace Casino and Resort on the Las Vegas Strip, which was part of a 25-city tour that featured the season's finalists. Jerry Springer returned as both host of the tour and the headliner of the show. In 2012, the

title: America's Got Talent (season 2)

text: America's Got Talent (season 2) The second season of America's Got Talent, an American television reality show talent competition, premiered on the NBC network on June 5, 2007 with a two-hour episode. Tabloid talk show host Jerry Springer succeeded Regis Philbin as host. Piers Morgan and David Hasselhoff returned as judges, joined by newcomer Sharon Osbourne. Brandy Norwood voluntarily stepped down as judge after a wrongful death lawsuit was brought against her for her involvement in a fatal car collision. The second season of the show was originally announced to debut in January 2007, with a timeslot of Sunday nights

title: America's Got Talent (season 9)

text: America's Got Talent (season 9) Season nine of the reality competition series "America's Got Talent" premiered on May 27, 2014 and was won by magician Mat Franco. Nick Cannon returned for his sixth season as host. This is Howie Mandel's fifth season, Howard Stern's third season, and Mel B and Heidi Klum both returned for their second season on the judging panel. The live shows were shot from Radio City Music Hall in New York. The season ended on September 17, 2014. Emily West took second place while Acro Army, a gymnastics group, took third place. On April 8, 2014,

title: America's Got Talent

text: September 16, Paul Zerdin was announced the winner of the season, making him the second ventriloquist to win. Comedian Drew Lynch was runner-up, and magician mentalist Oz Pearlman was in Third Place. "America's Got Talent" was renewed for an eleventh season on September 1, 2015. The season would have preliminary open call auditions in Detroit, New York, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, San Jose, San Diego, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Orlando, and Dallas. As in years past, hopeful contestants may also submit auditions online. On October 22, 2015, it was announced that creator Simon Cowell would replace Howard

title: America's Got Talent (season 4)

text: is the list of the acts who passed through to the live rounds. America's Got Talent (season 4) The fourth season of "America's Got Talent", an American television reality show talent competition, premiered on the NBC network on June 23, 2009. Country singer Kevin Skinner was named the winner on September 16, 2009. This season is the first season to be broadcast in high definition. This season's host is Nick Cannon, who replaced Jerry Springer. Springer had said that he could not host due to other commitments. David Hasselhoff, Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne returned judges, despite rumors that Osbourne

title: America's Got Talent

text: a dispute between Paul O'Grady, the planned host, and the British broadcaster ITV; production of this edition later resumed in 2007. The show attracts a variety of participants, from across the United States and abroad, to take part and who possess some form of talents, with acts ranging from singing, dancing, comedy, magic, stunts, variety, and other genres. Each participant who auditions attempts to secure a place in the live episodes of a season by impressing a panel of judges - the current line-up consists of Cowell, Howie Mandel, Mel B, and Heidi Klum. Those that make it into the

title: Kenichi Ebina

text: during the finals on September 17, he was announced the winner of the eighth season of "America's Got Talent" on September 18, 2013. He was also the first dance and first foreign act to win the competition. On the Season 9 Quarterfinal results show on August 13, 2014, Kenichi returned as a guest, performing a routine based on his audition performance, while interacting with versions of himself with superimposed faces of Heidi and Howie. The performance was also a demonstration of the app he is working on (apparently titled "Dance-ish Me") to be released in September, although no other specifics

title: America's Got Talent (season 1)

text: Januario, The King Charles Unicycle Troupe, Aaron Burr, and Daniel Colin. Acts that were eliminated include: Acts that advanced to the second round include: Three additional acts from Chicago that also made it to the second round were briefly shown at the end of the show, since there were too many performers to fit into a one-hour episode. They include: K Turbo, Sonia Lee, and Chadwick. Acts that were eliminated include: At this point, 58 of the 61 acts (29 with televised auditions and 29 without) that made it to the semifinals were divided into four groups. The 14 or

title: America's Got Talent (season 13)

text: America's Got Talent (season 13) Season thirteen of the reality competition series "America's Got Talent" premiered on May 29, 2018, on NBC. Howie Mandel, Mel B, Heidi Klum and Simon Cowell returned as judges for their respective ninth, sixth, sixth, and third seasons. Meanwhile, Tyra Banks returned for her second season as host. The live shows returned to the Dolby Theatre, beginning August 14, 2018. "AGT" is co-produced by FremantleMedia North America and Syco Entertainment, Cowell's company. Dunkin Donuts is a sponsor for a fourth consecutive season. Shin Lim was named the winner on the season finale, September 19, 2018.

title: America's Got Talent

text: eighth season, the winner was also made the headline act of a national tour with runners up following the final show, stopping in 25 cities. For season nine, however (2014), there was no tour; two shows were held in Las Vegas for the winner and some of the runner-up acts. (See "#America's Got Talent Live", below.) In its first season, the judging panel consisted originally of David Hasselhoff, Brandy Norwood, and Piers Morgan, with the program hosted by Regis Philbin. Prior to the start of the second season, Norwood was forced to step down due to a legal matter she

title: Angelica Hale

text: lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She has a younger sister, Abigail, who was born while Hale was still competing on "America's Got Talent". Hale continues to have quarterly checkups with her doctors. Angelica Hale Angelica Hale (born July 31, 2007) is an American child singer from Atlanta, Georgia. She competed in the 12th season of "America's Got Talent", where she became the runner-up. Angelica Hale was born to James Hale and Eva Bolando on July 31, 2007, in Atlanta, Georgia. James is reportedly half Filipino, half Caucasian, while Eva is from Iligan City, Philippines. At the age of four, Hale contracted

title: America's Got Talent (season 2)

text: at 8 p.m.; however, the network substituted another reality talent show, "". This season's winner was a ventriloquist and impressionist Terry Fator. The audition process for the second season is very similar to that of the first, except that only a buzzer sounds when the X is pressed. When all the judges X's have been pressed, a lonely blue spotlight centers on the act, indicating they've been struck out. Unlike the previous season, the acts who pass the auditions then attend a Las Vegas boot camp, where they have a chance to perfect their craft. At this point, acts are

title: Tourettes Without Regrets

text: her appearance on NBC's "America's Got Talent" as a finalist. Ellen DeGeneres was so impressed with her skills she invited Butterscotch to perform on her show where she amazed the crowd singing, playing the piano and beatboxing. Prior to America’s Got Talent, Butterscotch claimed titles as both the first International Female Beatbox Battle World Champion and the West Coast Beatbox Champion for both genders. Butterscotch has made such an impact on young women, she was even the inspiration of a teenage girl to be transformed into a beatboxer on MTV’s MADE. NBC Bay Area Tourettes Without Regrets in Oakland "The

title: America's Got Talent (season 1)


question: how many books are in the one piece series

answers: 83

answers: more than 80

title: One Piece

text: for an English-language release in North America in 2004, before the license was dropped and subsequently acquired by Funimation in 2007. "One Piece" has received praise for its storytelling, art, characterization, and humor. Several volumes of the manga have broken publishing records, including the highest initial print run of any book in Japan. The official website for Eiichiro Oda's "One Piece" manga announced that the manga has set a "Guinness World Record" for "the most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author". As of May 2018, the manga has sold over 440 million copies worldwide,

title: One Piece

text: manga was nominated for Favorite Manga Series in "Nickelodeon Magazine"s 2009 Comics Awards. In 2012, "One Piece" won the 41st Japan Cartoonists Association Award Grand Prize, alongside Kimuchi Yokoyama's "Nekodarake Nice". "Da Vinci" magazine named "One Piece" number three on their list of 2013's top manga, which was voted on 4,619 professional book reviewers, bookstore employees, and "Da Vinci" readers. On June 15, 2015, it was announced that Eiichiro Oda and "One Piece" had set the Guinness World Record for "The most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author" with 320,866,000 copies printed worldwide as

title: One Piece

text: television adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's "One Piece" manga series as part of the series' 20th anniversary celebrations. Eiichiro Oda will serve as executive producer for the series alongside Tomorrow Studios CEO Adelstein and Becky Clements. The series will reportedly begin with the East Blue arc. "One Piece" is the best-selling manga series in history; it sold 100 million collected "tankōbon" volumes by February 2005, and over 200 million by February 2011, before selling over 365 million copies sold in Japan and 440 million copies worldwide as of May 2018. According to Oricon, "One Piece" has been the best-selling manga series

title: One Piece discography

text: One Piece discography A number of musical CDs have been created for the media franchise built around Eiichirō Oda's manga "One Piece". Various theme songs and character songs were released on a total of 49 singles. Many of them were also released in collected form on the eight compilation albums or the 16 soundtrack CDs, along with background music from the anime television series, the series' feature films, and video games. The anime television series currently consists of 36 pieces of theme music; eighteen opening themes and eighteen ending themes. As of episode 279, ending themes were omitted and, starting

title: One Piece

text: in the category Favorite Anime Series. In a 2005 web poll by Japanese television network TV Asahi "One Piece" was voted 6th most popular animated TV series. Before the poll, Asahi TV broadcast another list based on a nationwide survey in which "One Piece" placed 4th among teenagers. In 2006, it was elected 32nd of the Top 100 Japanese anime by TV Asahi and 21st by its viewers. Funimation's first DVD release of the series "One Piece: Season 1 First Voyage" was nominated for the Fifth Annual TV DVD Awards. One Piece The manga has been adapted into an original

title: One Piece (video game)

text: One Piece (video game) One Piece also referred to as Shonen Jump's One Piece is a 2-D platforming beat 'em up video game for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance based on the 4kids dub of the "One Piece" anime. Developed by Dimps and published by Bandai, it was released on September 7, 2005. It is the only One Piece game to be only released in the USA, and the first out of two to not see a release in Japan. "Follow the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates and explore the Grand Line in search of

title: One Piece

text: for the "One Piece" series have been released. The first art book, "One Piece: Color Walk 1", released June 2001, was also released in English by Viz Media on November 8, 2005. A second art book, "One Piece: Color Walk 2", was released on November 4, 2003; and "One Piece: Color Walk 3 – Lion" the third art book, was released January 5, 2006. The fourth art book, subtitled "Eagle", was released on March 4, 2010, and "One Piece: Shark", the fifth art book, was released on December 3, 2010. The first guidebook "One Piece: Red – Grand Characters" was

title: One Piece discography

text: a "usual mix of trumpeting pirate bombast, rocking action music, and catchy individual themes". Margaret Veira of Active Anime states that the anime television series's "background music sets the mood and the scenes perfectly." One Piece discography A number of musical CDs have been created for the media franchise built around Eiichirō Oda's manga "One Piece". Various theme songs and character songs were released on a total of 49 singles. Many of them were also released in collected form on the eight compilation albums or the 16 soundtrack CDs, along with background music from the anime television series, the series'

title: One Piece

text: Tokyo Tower called the Tokyo One Piece Tower, which includes the Mugiwara Cafe, opened on March 13, 2015. Other "One Piece" media include a trading card game by Bandai called "One Piece CCG" and a drama CD centering on the character of Nefertari Vivi released by Avex Trax on December 26, 2002. A Hello Kitty-inspired Chopper was used for several pieces of merchandise as a collaboration between "One Piece" and Hello Kitty. A kabuki play inspired by "One Piece" ran at Tokyo's Shinbashi Enbujō throughout October and November 2015. "One Piece" is the first-ever manga series to hold a "Dome

title: One Piece

text: and twelfth films for release in North America, and these films have received in-house dubs by the company. The "One Piece" franchise has been adapted into multiple video games published by subsidiaries of Bandai and later as part of Bandai Namco Entertainment. The games have been released on a variety of video game, handheld consoles, and mobile devices. The video games feature role-playing games, and fighting games, such as the titles of the "Grand Battle!" meta-series. The series debuted in Japan on July 19, 2000, with "". Over forty games have been produced based on the franchise. Additionally, "One Piece"

title: One Piece

text: of bestselling comics for April/May 2007 and numerous times on "The New York Times" Manga Best Seller list. On "ICv2"s list of Top 25 Manga Properties Fall 2008 for North America, which is compiled by interviews with retailers and distributors, Nielsen BookScan's Top 20 Lists of graphic novels and "ICv2"s own analysis of information provided by Diamond Comic Distributors, "One Piece" came in 15th place. It rose to second place on their Top 25 Manga Properties Q3 2010 list. Allen Divers of Anime News Network comments in 2003 that the art style "One Piece" employs "initially seems very cartoonish with

title: One Piece

text: series' intended demographic is not interested. Written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, "One Piece" has been serialized in the manga anthology "Weekly Shōnen Jump" since July 22, 1997. The chapters have been collected into "tankōbon" volumes by Shueisha since December 24, 1997. In total, there are 914 chapters and 89 "tankōbon" volumes. Oda teamed up with Akira Toriyama to create a single crossover of "One Piece" and Toriyama's "Dragon Ball". Entitled "Cross Epoch", the one-shot was published in the December 25, 2006, issue of "Weekly Shōnen Jump" and the April 2011 issue of the English "Shonen Jump". Oda collaborated with

title: One Piece

text: manga: 2.85 million copies. Volume 57's print run of 3 million copies in 2010 was the highest first print for any book of any subject in Japan—a record that was broken several times by subsequent volumes and currently held by Volume 67's 4.05 million initial printing in 2012. Volume 60 was the first book to sell over two million copies in its opening week on Oricon book rankings, and later became the first book to sell over three million copies since the chart began in 2008. "One Piece" has also sold well in North America, charting on "Publishers Weekly"s list

title: One Piece

text: series. The first of these short stories was published in August 1996 in "Akamaru Jump" and later in "One Piece Red". The second was published in the 41st issue of "Weekly Shōnen Jump" in 1996, and reprinted in 1998 in Oda's short story collection, "Wanted!". Oda revealed that he originally planned "One Piece" to last five years, and that he had already planned the ending. However, he found it would take longer than he had expected. Oda stated that the ending would be what he had decided in the beginning; he is committed to seeing it through. When creating a

title: List of One Piece manga volumes

title: One Piece

text: every year since 2008 when the company began its manga chart, and it became the best-selling manga for the tenth consecutive year in 2017. Due to promotions for the "Strong World" film, all 56 volumes of the manga released at the time charted on Oricon's list of the top 200 manga for the week of December 7–13, 2009. Up until February 2012, "One Piece" had grossed at least ($1,404,220,000) in manga "tankōbon" sales revenue. Additionally, individual volumes of "One Piece" have broken publishing and sales records in Japan. In 2009, Volume 56 had the highest initial print run of any

title: One Piece

text: One Piece The manga has been adapted into an original video animation (OVA) produced by Production I.G in 1998, and an anime series produced by Toei Animation, which began broadcasting in Japan in 1999. Additionally, Toei has developed thirteen animated feature films, one OVA and eleven television specials. Several companies have developed various types of merchandising such as a trading card game and numerous video games. The manga series was licensed for an English language release in North America and the United Kingdom by Viz Media and in Australia by Madman Entertainment. The anime series was licensed by 4Kids Entertainment

title: One Piece

text: of December 2014. The first opening of the "One Piece" anime television series, "We Are!", won the Animation Kobe Theme Song Award of the year 2000. In February 2001, "One Piece" placed 9th among anime television series in Japan. In 2001, the readers of "Animage", a popular Japanese anime magazine, voted the anime television series in 5th place of The Readers' Picks for the Anime that should be remembered in the 21st Century. In June 2002, "Animage" readers voted "One Piece" to be the 16th best new anime of the year 2001, and gave it another 16th place in 2004

title: One Piece

text: based on the "One Piece" series have been released in Japan. The films are typically released in March in accordance with the spring vacation of Japanese schools. The films feature self-contained, completely original plots, or alternate retellings of story arcs with animation of a higher quality than what the weekly anime allows. The first three films were typically double features paired up with other anime films, and were thus, usually an hour or less in length. The films themselves offer contradictions in both chronology and design that make them incompatible with a single continuity. Funimation has licensed the eighth, tenth,

title: One Piece: Pirate Warriors

text: game has sold over 1.2 million units. One Piece: Pirate Warriors One Piece: Warriors is an action video game developed by Omega Force and published by Bandai Namco Games for PlayStation 3. It was released on March 1, 2012, in Japan, September 21, 2012, in Europe and September 25, 2012, in North America. The game was developed in commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the "One Piece" manga and anime franchise by Eiichiro Oda. "Pirate Warriors" was also the first title in the "One Piece" video game franchise which was released on a PlayStation system since "" in 2006. As

title: One Piece

text: making it the best-selling manga series in history. It became the best-selling manga for the tenth consecutive year in 2017. The series focuses on Monkey D. Luffy, a young man who, inspired by his childhood idol and powerful pirate "Red Haired" Shanks, sets off on a journey from the East Blue Sea to find the famed treasure One Piece and proclaim himself the King of the Pirates. In an effort to organize his own crew, the , Luffy rescues and befriends a swordsman named Roronoa Zoro, and they head off in search of the One Piece. They are joined in

title: One Piece

text: film, certain episodes of the anime television series, and all but the first feature film. They feature artwork by Oda and are written by Tatsuya Hamasaki. The first of these novels, "One Piece: Defeat The Pirate Ganzak!" was released on June 3, 1999. "One Piece: Logue Town Chapter" followed on July 17, 2000, as an adaptation of the anime television series' Logue Town story arc. The first feature film to be adapted was "Clockwork Island Adventure" on March 19, 2001. On December 25, 2001, saw the publication of the second, and so far last, light novel adaptation of an anime

title: One Piece: World Seeker

text: One Piece: World Seeker One Piece: World Seeker is an action-adventure video game based on the manga and anime series "One Piece". Developed by Ganbarion and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, the game will be the first video game in the franchise to feature an open world environment. The game is scheduled to be released on March 15, 2019 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows. Characters that will appear in the game will include the entire Straw Hat crew, Akainu, Tashigi, Smoker, Sabo, Rob Lucci, and Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji from Germa 66. The game will feature the

title: Omamori Himari

text: Volume 64 of "One Piece", which has been on the list for three weeks straight. "Omamori Himari" has also been featured on Nielsen BookScan's Best-Selling Graphic Novels List, with Volume 7 debuting at No. 22 between May 14, 2012 and May 20, 2012 before the volume's official release, No. 14 between May 21, 2012 and May 27, 2012 on its first week of sales, and No. 21 between May 28, 2012 and June 3, 2012 on its second week of sales, selling a total of 1,270 copies. Omamori Himari , also known as for short, is a Japanese manga series

title: One Piece

text: September 18, 2004, in first-run syndication on the Fox network as part of the weekend programming block Fox Box, and later aired on Cartoon Network on their weekday afternoon programming block Toonami in April 2005. Production was halted in 2006 after episode 143/104. Viz also ceased its home video release of the series after volume 11. On July 22, 2010, an interview with Anime News Network and Mark Kirk, senior vice-president of digital media for 4Kids Entertainment, revealed that 4Kids acquired "One Piece" as part of a package deal with other anime, and that the company did not screen the

title: One Piece Film: Strong World

text: "manga" anthology that has been publishing "One Piece" ever since the series' premiere, the magazine announced that it would publish the prequel to the film's story, depicting a confrontation between the Pirate King Gol D. Roger and Shiki the Golden Lion, which the first 1.5 million Japanese moviegoers where promised to receive in form of a "One Piece" "manga" "Volume 0", in its 53rd issue and that it will eventually be animated. The "One Piece" anime television series' episodes 426 through 429 formed a sub-series of special episodes depicting a prelude to the events in the film. Commemorating the release

title: The New York Times Manga Best Sellers of 2010

text: of life story, "D.Gray-man" contains demon-slaying, while "Otomen" is a romance series. Viz Media also introduced an aggressive release schedule for "One Piece" in 2010, releasing five volumes per month between January and June to bring the volume count of the English release from 24 to 53. On two separate occasions, five "One Piece" volumes (39–43 in week 15 and 44–48 in week 19) debuted on the Best Seller list simultaneously. Week 19 was also the first time a "Naruto" release did not appear in the top ten rankings. Weeks are numbered according to the convention used in the United

title: One Piece: Pirate Warriors

text: One Piece: Pirate Warriors One Piece: Warriors is an action video game developed by Omega Force and published by Bandai Namco Games for PlayStation 3. It was released on March 1, 2012, in Japan, September 21, 2012, in Europe and September 25, 2012, in North America. The game was developed in commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the "One Piece" manga and anime franchise by Eiichiro Oda. "Pirate Warriors" was also the first title in the "One Piece" video game franchise which was released on a PlayStation system since "" in 2006. As with the rest of the franchise, "Pirate

title: One Piece

text: times when children are likely to watch. The "One Piece" manga was a finalist for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize three times in a row from 2000 to 2002, with the highest number of fan nominations in the first two years. The German translation of its 44th volume won the Sondermann audience award in the international manga category, a yearly comic award given in seven categories by the Frankfurt Book Fair, the "Frankfurter Rundschau", "Spiegel Online" and Comicforum, at the Fair's Comics Centre in 2005. In a 2008 poll by Oricon, Japanese teenagers voted it the most interesting manga. The

title: One Piece

text: themselves. This Haki can also have physical impacts, such as causing tremors and destruction to the user's surrounding area. It is shown that when it is used too much Haki will stop working for certain periods of time, so it can't be in use constantly. While working as an assistant to Nobuhiro Watsuki, Oda began writing "One Piece" in 1996. It started as two one-shot stories entitled "Romance Dawn"—which would later be used as the title for "One Piece"s first chapter and volume. They both featured the character of Luffy, and included elements that would appear later in the main

title: List of One Piece manga volumes

long_answer: One Piece is a shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda that has been translated into various languages and spawned a substantial media franchise. It follows the adventures of the seventeen-year-old boy Monkey D. Luffy, whose body gains the properties of rubber from accidentally eating a supernatural fruit, as he travels the oceans in search of the series' titular treasure and gathers himself a diverse crew of pirates, named the Straw Hats. In Japan, the series is published by Shueisha—chapterwise in the manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump since July 22, 1997, and in tankōbon format since December 24, 1997. The series spans over 800 chapters and more than 80 tankōbon volumes.


question: when did ga state get a football team

answers: 2010

title: Georgia State Panthers

text: as independents for three years before joining the TAAC. Once Georgia State entered the CAA, a recurring question of whether the university should add football was brought up, leading to the commissioning of a feasibility study in 2006. After gauging student and alumni interest, the administration found enough support to continue onwards with the effort, leading to the hire of former Atlanta Falcons head coach Dan Reeves as a consultant. This culminated in the official launch of the football program on April 17, 2008. Due to GSU's membership as a part of the CAA, membership into the football division of

title: Georgia State Panthers football

text: extensive history of football than Georgia State, restarting its program in 1981 and winning six national championships at the FCS level. The football rivalry began after the hire of former Appalachian State (a major rival of Georgia Southern) athletic director Charlie Cobb to the same position at GSU. During Georgia State's press release introducing Cobb, he revealed that Georgia Southern's athletic director Tom Kleinlein told him "welcome, now the war is on." The two teams met on the gridiron during the 2014 football season at the Georgia Dome. During the run up to the game, fans from both teams expressed

title: Georgia State Panthers football

text: for Georgia Southern in school history. Currently, Georgia State leads Georgia Southern, 3-1. While GSU already had a history with Georgia Southern before the emergence of football, the schools entry into the Sun Belt Conference would start an intense football rivalry. After the first season of play between the two teams in 2014 with Georgia Southern beating Georgia State 69-31, it was agreed by both universities athletic departments to introduce a rivalry series, with points allocated for each sport played between the two schools. Georgia State would win the first and second years of the rivalry series, with the Panthers

title: 1902 Florida State College football team

text: Their pants were lightly padded, but their upper bodies were largely unprotected. Leather helmets with ear guards covered their heads, and shoehorn-shaped metal nose guards were strapped across their faces. The red and white clad Bainbridge Giants arrived by train, and they reportedly hoped to “hammer the life” out of Florida State. The Giants were “much heavier” than Florida State and had four football veterans from the University of Georgia, as well as one University of Virginia alumnus. The two teams trotted onto the field at 3:30 p.m. According to a reporter from the "Weekly Tallahasseean", Florida State moved the

title: Florida–Georgia football rivalry

text: situation at the Gators' own 29-yard-line, coach Doug Dickey decided to go for the first down rather than punt. Gators running back Earl Carr was stopped short by Bulldogs safety Johnny Henderson. Led by quarterback Ray Goff's game management and running back Kevin McLee's 198-yard rushing performance, the Bulldogs seized the momentum and scored three touchdowns on their way to a come-from-behind 41–27 win. After the game, Dickey said: "We were not outplayed. We were outcoached. I made some dumb calls." Sports writers seized on Dickey's "mea culpa", and in subsequent months and years popularized the phrase "fourth and dumb"

title: Georgia State Panthers football

text: by 2012 would be $3.1 million. On April 15, 2007, former Atlanta Falcons head coach Dan Reeves was hired by Georgia State as a consultant. On November 1, 2007, the university began discussing the possibility of adding football. It found that total costs would cost between $6.2 million and $33.8 million depending on several different factors, including whether a stadium would be built or a preexisting stadium would be used. On April 17, 2008, Georgia State launched its football program. On June 12, 2008, former Georgia Tech, Alabama, and Kentucky head coach Bill Curry was named as the Georgia State

title: Georgia State Panthers

text: 1990; Georgia State became a university in 1969). Also, Georgia State's URL and official logo's both contain the acronym. Georgia Southern, however, claims right of ownership since they have had a football team for a much longer time than Georgia State, and during that time managed to win 6 national championships at the FCS level. It should be noted that Georgia Southern doesn't officially recognize GSU as an abbreviation for the school, actively discouraging it in its identification standards, and generally uses GS in their own branding. The beginning of the football rivalry was initiated after the hire of former

title: Florida–Georgia football rivalry

text: Crabtree and Royce Goodbread. With Florida holding a commanding lead in fourth quarter, jubilant Gator fans prematurely rushed the field to tear down the goal posts, resulting in fist fights breaking out between supporters of the two schools. Order was restored, the game was completed, and Florida earned its first victory in the series by the score of 26–6. Georgia's All-American back Frank Sinkwich had broken his jaw in a game earlier in the season, but that didn't keep him off the field. Wearing a custom-made chinstrap attached to his helmet, Sinkwich ran 31 times for 142 and two touchdowns

title: 1897 Georgia Bulldogs football team

text: Bulldogs. In the second half of that game, a Georgia fullback named Richard Vonalbade ("Von") Gammon, was fatally injured in a play. In reaction to his death, the Georgia, Georgia Tech and Mercer football teams disbanded, the "Atlanta Journal" ran a headline proclaiming, the ""Death Knell of Football"" and the Georgia legislature passed a bill to outlaw football in the state of Georgia. As the bill sat on the desk of Georgia Governor William Yates Atkinson, a letter that Gammon's mother, Rosalind Burns Gammon, had written to the state legislature was revealed. In her letter, she pleaded with the legislators

title: Georgia State Panthers

text: Appalachian State (a major rival of Georgia Southern) athletic director Charlie Cobb to the same position at GSU. During Georgia State's press release introducing Cobb, he revealed that Georgia Southern's athletic director Tom Kleinlein told him "welcome, now the war is on." The two teams met on the gridiron during the 2014 football season at Georgia Dome. During the run up to the game, fans from both teams expressed their dislike for the other over social media outlets such as Twitter, at times trending with tags of "SouthernNotState" and "StateNotSouthern" both of which were used as slogans for shirts given

text: home game against Memphis was cancelled when the AAC bought out the contract between the schools for $1.1 million to reschedule a conference game between Memphis and UCF that was cancelled during the second week of the season due to Hurricane Irma. 2017 Georgia State Panthers football team The 2017 Georgia State Panthers football team represented Georgia State University (GSU) in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Panthers were led by first-year head coach Shawn Elliott. The season marked the first in which they played in the newly acquired Georgia State Stadium, a renovated Turner Field with

title: 2014 Florida State Seminoles football team

text: same job at the University of Georgia. Linebackers coach Charles Kelly was promoted to defensive coordinator while wide receivers coach Lawrence Dawsey and quarterbacks coach Randy Sanders were promoted as offensive coordinators. To round out the coaching staff, Bill Miller was hired to coach linebackers. The annual 'Garnet & Gold Game' was held on April 12 at Doak S. Campbell Stadium. The Garnet team, led by quarterback Jameis Winston, was victorious with a 31–14 win over the Gold team. Florida State football is broadcast on the Florida State University Seminoles Radio Network and the games are called by Gene Deckerhoff.

title: 2018 Georgia State Panthers football team

text: staff) Shawn Elliott. After a short recruiting year (due to turnover of staff), Elliott managed to put together one of Georgia State's highest rated recruiting classes. After losing the opening game at the Panther's new stadium Georgia State Stadium, a conversion of the former Turner Field, the Panthers would go on to become bowl eligible for the second time in the programs seven-year history, defeating the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers at the Cure Bowl. As of December 21, 2016, the Panthers have a total of 20 recruits committed. Eight are three-star recruits. On July 19, 2018, the Sun Belt released their

title: 2008 Florida Gators football team

text: Georgia in the first quarter, but Georgia was able to put points on the board with a 35-yard field goal cutting Florida's lead to 4. Georgia attempted an onside kick following the score, but was unable to recover the ball setting up the Gators at the Georgia 41-yard line. It took only 7 plays for Tim Tebow to cap the drive with a 1-yard rushing touchdown, bringing the score to 14-3. Florida's defense kept Georgia QB Matthew Stafford and Georgia RB Knowshon Moreno out of the end zone after Georgia got to the Florida 10-yard line. After having to settle

title: Georgia State Panthers football

text: The Georgia State Panthers football team is the college football program for Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. The Panthers football team was founded in 2010 and currently competes at the NCAA Division I FBS level.  The team is a member of the Sun Belt Conference.

title: History of Florida Gators football

text: state university's football team began varsity play when the Gainesville campus opened in September 1906. Tackle William Wetmore "Gric" Gibbs is the only known member of the lost 1905 team who played for the new university's team in Gainesville. Football and baseball games and track meets were held at University Athletic Field, a grassy playing surface flanked by low bleachers on West University Avenue just north of the present stadium site. Permanent bleachers were installed in 1911, and the facility was renamed Fleming Field in honor of former Florida governor Francis P. Fleming. From 1911 to 1930, Florida's football squads

title: 2008 Florida Gators football team

text: big, stupid brawl." The Bulldogs started the game on offense after Florida deferred to the second half. Neither team was able to score on their opening possessions as both defenses force the teams to punt. Georgia was able to get into the red zone and attempted a field goal from the 20-yard line, which was missed by kicker Blair Walsh. On the change of possession, the Gators capitalized with a 5-minute 80-yard drive finished off with a Percy Harvin rushing touchdown. With this touchdown, Percy scored a TD in every game thus far in the season. Florida's defense shut out

text: ball quickly into Giant territory. After several “buck runs” Florida State was “within six inches of Georgia’s goal.” The Giants held Florida State for two downs, but on the third Buchholz “barely pushed through Georgia’s right tackle for a touchdown.” Provence attempted an extra-point kick, but it failed. After sixteen minutes of action, Florida State led 5-0. Before the ball again was “advanced any great distance by either side,” the first half ended. McCord, of Florida State, kicked off the second half sending “the pigskin spinning to Georgia’s twenty yard line.” Bainbridge did not advance the ball, and Florida State

title: Georgia Southern–Georgia State rivalry

text: (Georgia State became a university in 1969). Additionally, Georgia State's URL and official logo both contain the abbreviation. Georgia Southern officially uses GS in all of its branding. The football rivalry began after the hire of former Appalachian State (a major rival of Georgia Southern) athletic director Charlie Cobb to the same position at GSU. During Georgia State's press release introducing Cobb, he revealed that Georgia Southern's athletic director Tom Kleinlein told him "welcome, now the war is on." The two teams met on the gridiron during the 2014 football season at the Georgia Dome. During the run up to

title: 1904 University of Florida Blue and White football team

text: R. Woller (right end), R. Cason (quarterback), Clarke (left halfback), Bridges (right halfback), C. McGuire (fullback) Florida State College wore purple and gold and were state champions. The team's coach was Jack Forsythe, who would become the first head coach of the Florida Gators two years later. FSC's assistant was Jock Hanvey. Both coaches played for the Clemson Tigers the year before when it faced Bridges and Cumberland in the SIAA championship game. A newspaper account reported: "The people of Lake City had expected at least one victory after a long series of defeats encountered by the university and were

title: Georgia State Panthers football

text: Georgia Dome including then Georgia governor Sonny Perdue, former mayor Andrew Young, amongst other dignitaries. Later during the last game of the season on November 18, Georgia State would play FBS defending national champion and number 10 ranked Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, losing 63–7. The single touchdown was earned during a kick return by Albert Wilson. Georgia State would finish its inaugural year with a 6–5 record. During its second year of play, the Panthers would record a 3–8 record. The season would be marked by a constant shuffle of quarterbacks after the 2009 starter Drew Little was suspended for

title: 1966 Florida Gators football team

text: 5, the Gators lost for the first time during the 1966 season, falling to the rival Georgia Bulldogs by a 27–10 score at Gator Bowl Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida. Florida was ranked No. 7 in the AP Poll prior to the game, and dropped out of the AP top 10 after the loss. Bulldogs running back Ron Jenkins led the attack for Georgia with 88 rushing yards and a touchdown on 20 carries. On their first possession, the Gators sustained an 86-yard scoring drive with fullback Graham McKeel scoring the touchdown. Thereafter, the Gators were limited to a field goal,

title: 1903 Florida State College football team

text: was trying to promote good feeling between the two towns.” Hughes considered the Georgians too unpleasant, and Florida State never played Bainbridge again. The East Florida Seminary team beat FSC 16–0. "The victors had the home team beat at every point. A large crowd witnessed the game." Florida State played Georgia Tech at Piedmont Park in Atlanta on November 7, “a sunny and mild autumn day.” Georgia Tech made two touchdowns in the first half after “easy gains.” In the second, Clarke, Georgia Tech’s left tackle, “made one of the prettiest bucks…which had been seen” and scored a third time.

title: History of Florida Gators football

text: beaten easily by all its opponents (including out-of-state southern teams Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, and Georgia Tech). The Lake City team lost its final game to state champion FSC, coached by Jack "Pee Wee" Forsythe (a former lineman for John Heisman at Clemson, who was later the Gators' first coach). The University of the State of Florida was in Lake City during its first year of existence (1905–06), while the first buildings of its new campus were constructed in Gainesville. The 1905 football season was a lost one, since university president Andrew Sledd ruled several players ineligible for academic reasons. The

title: History of Georgia Bulldogs football

text: Sanford Stadium during the 1990 Georgia Tech game towing a banner reading "'Fire Ray Goof'". This nickname was resurrected after Goff's teams began to fall below expectations again. Goff had a 2–2 bowl record. Goff's 1995 team was on the receiving end of Steve Spurrier's "Half a Hundred" game in which his Florida Gators team put up 52 points on the beleaguered Bulldogs. They were the first and, to date, only team to do so inside Sanford Stadium. He was fired at the end of that injury-plagued season, despite the Bulldogs being invited to the Peach Bowl. Jim Donnan left

title: Georgia State Panthers

text: 2009, as a highly stylized cartoon panther beneath the old Georgia State wordmark. On May 7, 2014, Georgia State announced its intentions to purchase Turner Field and the surrounding parking lots after the Atlanta Braves announced that they would move to the new SunTrust Park in Cobb County, west of Atlanta. This would include re-purposing Turner Field into a 30,000 seat stadium that would house the Georgia State Football program as well as the school's soccer programs. It would also include rebuilding a baseball stadium in the footprint of the old Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium that was knocked down after the

title: Georgia State Panthers

text: in making GSU a secondary name for the university. In February 2012, the university announced that it had commissioned a study to find the feasibility of moving up to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the highest level of collegiate football, citing that the shifts in landscape due to conference realignment offered opportunities that should be carefully considered. The study was conducted by Collegiate Consulting, who concluded that the university was in a good position to move up to the FBS. On April 9, 2012, Georgia State officially accepted an invitation to rejoin the Sun Belt Conference on July 1, 2013.

title: 2008 Florida Gators football team

text: a team coached by a national championship winning head coach. Alabama entered the game with a 21-13 series lead over the Gators. After winning the coin toss, the Gators elected to defer to the second half and the Alabama offense took the field after the touchback kickoff. With just three plays and one net yard, the Gators defense forced Alabama to punt early. Although without leading Gator WR Percy Harvin, who sustained an injury during the Florida State game, the Gators acted quickly and put together a nine play drive that finished with a Tim Tebow touchdown pass to first

title: Florida–Georgia football rivalry

text: shadow of the Gators' goal line when they were stuffed on fourth down, checking the Bulldogs momentarily but pinning the Gators deep in their own territory. On the third play following the change of possession, Gators quarterback Kerwin Bell dropped back into his own end zone and lofted a long pass to streaking receiver Ricky Nattiel, who went 96 yards for a touchdown. The Bulldog momentum was snuffed out and the Gators went on to a convincing 27–0 victory, eventually completing an undefeated conference schedule for the first time in Gators history. The 1985 Florida Gators entered the contest on

title: 2008 Florida Gators football team

text: year in a 42-30 win over the Gators. In that win, Knowshon Moreno's one-yard touchdown run in the first quarter sparked a "" by the entire Bulldogs team in the end zone, known as the "Gator Stomp." Georgia head coach Mark Richt defended his actions in having his team intentionally celebrate. He was quoted as saying "I wanted to make sure we left this game with our hearts on the field." He was later quoted in summer media presses: "In hindsight, I shouldn't have done it. I won't do anything like that again. It could have easily turned into a

title: Georgia State Panthers football


question: when does the first nba basketball game start

answers: October 17, 2017

title: NBA Friday

text: NBA Friday NBA Friday is a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on ESPN. Formerly known as "NBA Friday Coast to Coast" during doubleheader nights, the program starts the first Friday of the NBA season, and typically runs uninterrupted throughout the entire season. In 2006, "NBA Friday" was preempted from March 10 to March 31, due to ESPN deciding against counter programming the NCAA Tournament. Nearly all "NBA Friday" telecasts consist of a doubleheader, with one game typically from the east coast at 8:00 p.m and the west coast at 10:30 p.m. The "KIA NBA Shootaround Pregame Show", the

title: NBA TV

text: of the broadcast is repeated during the overnight and early morning hours. On October 11, 2017, it was announced that the "Players Only" franchise, which made its debut last season on TNT, will show live games on NBA TV, starting October 24, 2017 and every Tuesday after that, for the first half of the 2017-18 season before transitioning to TNT for the remainder of the regular season starting January 23, 2018. NBA TV HD is a 1080i high definition simulcast feed of NBA TV that is available on most providers. All studio programs and original programs are shot in HD,

title: Barclays Center

text: Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center. MTA Regional Bus Operations service is provided by , and buses. The first NBA basketball game played at the new arena was an NBA preseason game between the Nets and the Washington Wizards on October 15, 2012. The first regular season NBA game at the Barclays Center took place on November 3, 2012, when the Nets beat the visiting Toronto Raptors 107–100. The originally scheduled season opener home game was supposed to take place on November 1 against now-cross town rivals the New York Knicks, in what was planned to be a historic event; however, the game

title: NBA Wednesday

text: NBA Wednesday NBA Wednesday is a weekly presentation of the National Basketball Association on ESPN. Debuting in 2002, NBA Wednesday starts the first Wednesday of the NBA season and runs throughout the entire season. Games typically air at 9:00 p.m EST, following an ESPN's presentation of "ACC Wednesday" college basketball. "NBA Wednesday" is occasionally preempted by "ACC Wednesday" or other college basketball doubleheaders, as well as Wednesday Night Baseball. NBA Wednesday, like NBA Friday, is not exclusive; local sports networks may still air the game in their market. In that case, the ESPN broadcast on these markets is subject to

text: and LeBron James both times. The first telecast of an NBA game on Christmas Day dates back to the league's early years. In 1947, the Providence Steamrollers played in New York against the Knicks on WCBS channel 2 at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. Stan Lomax and Bob Edge called that game. Fifteen minutes later, at 8:15 p.m. Central Time, Joe Wilson broadcast the game between Baltimore Bullets and Chicago Stags for WBKB channel 4 in Chicago. The first nationally televised Christmas Day NBA broadcast occurred in , when ABC broadcast a game between the Los Angeles Lakers and San Diego

title: NBA Gametime Live

text: chosen at random if they have the correct answer, is announced at the end of the halftime show (although sometimes the winner is announced on NBA TV's Twitter page, before halftime) with the correct answer displayed. On October 24, 2017, the channel replaced Fan Night with "Players Only." Making its debut on TNT in February 2017, it will show live games on NBA TV and every Tuesday after that, for the first half of the 2017-18 season before transitioning to TNT for the remainder of the regular season starting January 23, 2018. Webber hosts, while Thomas & McHale give analysis

title: The Starters

text: new umbrella, which at that time was unknown. On October 1, 2013, Tas Melas revealed that "The Basketball Jones" would not continue. The show relaunched in the 2013–14 NBA season on NBA TV, with episodes airing in late October. A video announcement was released on YouTube on October 2, 2013, where it was announced that "TBJ" was officially joining NBA TV and would continue as "The Starters". The entire team has moved their operations from Toronto to the NBA TV headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. On October 21, 2013, "The Starters" launched their first podcast, the first of a group of

title: NBA Wednesday

text: Scott, with analyst Tim Hardaway (who was later replaced by Greg Anthony). NBA Wednesday NBA Wednesday is a weekly presentation of the National Basketball Association on ESPN. Debuting in 2002, NBA Wednesday starts the first Wednesday of the NBA season and runs throughout the entire season. Games typically air at 9:00 p.m EST, following an ESPN's presentation of "ACC Wednesday" college basketball. "NBA Wednesday" is occasionally preempted by "ACC Wednesday" or other college basketball doubleheaders, as well as Wednesday Night Baseball. NBA Wednesday, like NBA Friday, is not exclusive; local sports networks may still air the game in their market.

title: NBA Gametime Live

text: NBA Gametime Live NBA Gametime is a television program that is the flagship program of NBA TV. The show began airing on October 30, 2008. The show has a studio host and various studio analysts. It airs live and provides the viewer live look-ins at NBA games, during which it shows a team's actual broadcast while providing analysis, interviews, and breaking news. The show airs live six days a week, not airing on Thursdays due to the NBA's commitment to "The NBA on TNT". The postgame edition, exclusive to NBA Playoffs coverage, airs daily and covers all playoff games. During

title: NBA Countdown

text: NBA Countdown NBA Countdown, branded for sponsorship purposes as NBA Countdown Presented By Straight Talk Wireless or Mountain Dew, is a pregame television show airing prior to National Basketball Association (NBA) telecasts on ABC and ESPN. "NBA Countdown" typically airs thirty minutes prior to games on ABC and ESPN. In 2006, the first and so far only one-hour edition of the pregame show aired, prior to Game 1 of the 2006 NBA Finals. Unlike NBC's NBA studio show, which was known as "NBA Showtime" for the first ten years of its existence, ABC's studio has been without much consistency. It

title: NBA Global Games

text: schedule. In 2013, the NBA decided to unify its overseas tours under one banner: the "NBA Global Games". The newly renamed event witnessed the first NBA preseason game held in Southeast Asia, with the Indiana Pacers and the Houston Rockets facing each other in the Philippines. In addition, a preseason game between the Washington Wizards and the Chicago Bulls in Brazil marked the first NBA preseason match in South America. The league was scheduled to hold a pair of regular season matches in Mexico and United Kingdom, but the game in Mexico City between the San Antonio Spurs and the

title: 1975 NBA Finals

text: to open the series at home. The series is notable as it was the first championship game or series in any of the four North American major professional sports leagues to feature two African American head coaches or managers, as Al Attles coached the Warriors and K. C. Jones coached the Bullets. On a lesser note, it was the first time that the NBA ever scheduled a game to be played in the month of June (Game 7 was scheduled for Monday Night, June 2). The first June game ever to be "actually" played, however, would have to wait until

title: NBA on TNT

text: leaving it up to the local sports networks. However, TBS may still air the start of the second game in case the ongoing first game on TNT extends beyond the tip-off time of the second game. Other than their regular Thursday schedule, TNT also airs NBA regular season games on Martin Luther King Day, during which tripleheaders were still used. However, in 2011, ESPN opted to air one matinee game on MLK Day, and NBA TV on the second matinee, leaving TNT to air the remaining two night games. In 2008, TNT broadcast on Christmas Day for the first time

title: NBA Africa Game 2015

text: NBA Africa Game 2015 The 2015 NBA Africa Game was an exhibition basketball game played on August 1, 2015 in Ellis Park Arena in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was the first NBA game, and the first game involving any major North American professional sports league, to take place on the continent of Africa. It was contested between Team Africa, featuring NBA players and alumni that were born in or had parents born in Africa, and Team World, featuring NBA players from the rest of the world. Team World won the exhibition game by a score of 101–97. <section begin=2015/> San

title: 2017–18 NBA season

text: The regular season began on October 17, 2017.  Christmas Day games will be played on December 25, 2017. The regular season will end on April 11, 2018.

title: Big Pooh

text: is planning a global release of the show on January 1, 2015 following the New Year and what many consider the "true" beginning of the NBA season. The show runs 1 hour in length and features as many as 8 segments per show. The show has caught the eye of many notable names both in the hip hop industry as well as in professional basketball, notably J.E. Skeets formerly of The Basketball Jones and currently of The NBA TV Show The Starters. It is rumored now that the show will feature both interviews and guest host spots from some of

title: 2010–11 NBA season

text: ABC broadcasting the game between the Celtics and the Orlando Magic, and the Heat against the Lakers, which started at 2:00 p.m. ET. On Martin Luther King Day, ESPN aired the game between the Chicago Bulls and the Memphis Grizzlies at 1:00 p.m. ET, while NBA TV aired the Sacramento Kings–Atlanta Hawks matchup at 4:00 p.m. ET. TNT capped off the holiday with a doubleheader, beginning with the Magic facing the Celtics, followed by the Oklahoma City Thunder facing the Los Angeles Lakers, beginning at 8:00 p.m. ET. The full schedule was released on Tuesday, August 10, 2010. Other much-anticipated

title: NBA on DuMont

text: they feared that Saturday matinees would not draw as many people as a night game. The DuMont Network would televise 20 Saturday afternoon games the following season, paying $39,000 for the rights. DuMont's first game aired on December 12, 1953, with the Boston Celtics defeating the Baltimore Bullets 106-75. This was the only year of NBA coverage on DuMont; the Saturday afternoon package moved to NBC for the season, mainly because NBC could clear the games on far more stations that DuMont could. Games on DuMont were usually blacked out in the cities they were played in; for example, the

title: NBA on TNT

text: TNT's opening night game featuring the Cleveland Cavaliers. TNT normally aired NBA Christmas Day games only if it falls on a Thursday (except during the 2011–12 season). However, the network announced that they would air a Christmas Day game on December 25, 2017 (a Monday) featuring the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Los Angeles Lakers. It also marked the first time that the "Inside the NBA" crew of Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neal called the game. TNT also announced that the "Players Only" games will now air every Tuesday starting January 23; the franchise also expanded to

title: NBA TV

text: of individual basketball players, documentaries focusing on a particular NBA team during the season and archived broadcasts of well-known games. NBA TV carries at least 90 regular season games per season, which typically air four days a week during the NBA season (mainly on Mondays, Tuesdays and Saturdays, although occasional Wednesday, Friday and Sunday games may air in the event that ESPN does not hold rights to coverage on those nights), as well as some first-round playoff games. Live games on NBA TV are subject to local blackout restrictions, since NBA TV (despite being owned by the league) does not

title: National Basketball Association

text: The NBA is also the only league that regularly schedules games on Christmas Day. The league has been playing games regularly on the holiday since 1947, though the first Christmas Day games were not televised until . Games played on this day have featured some of the best teams and players. Christmas is also notable for NBA on television, as the holiday is when the first NBA games air on network television each season. Games played on this day have been some of the highest-rated games during a particular season. In February, the regular season pauses to celebrate the annual

title: National Basketball Association

text: of the league was played at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on October 11, 2008, between the Phoenix Suns and the Denver Nuggets. A referee lockout began on September 1, 2009, when the contract between the NBA and its referees expired. The first preseason games were played on October 1, 2009, and replacement referees from the WNBA and NBA Development League were used, the first time replacement referees had been used since the beginning of the 1995–96 season. The NBA and the regular referees reached a deal on October 23, 2009. The first official NBA league games on European ground

title: NBA on TBS

text: to air part of the Sacramento Kings-Minnesota Timberwolves game that was supposed to follow on NBA TV. The first few minutes of Game 4 of the 2007 Western Conference Semifinal between the Phoenix Suns and San Antonio Spurs were shown on TBS, due to the game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the New Jersey Nets running past the former's 9:30 p.m. Eastern start time. The above situations are not unlike those that have been encountered during TBS telecasts of Major League Baseball Division Series games since 2007; at times, due to certain games running over their scheduled end time, TNT

title: NBA Africa Game 2015

text: Buford. NBA Africa Game 2015 The 2015 NBA Africa Game was an exhibition basketball game played on August 1, 2015 in Ellis Park Arena in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was the first NBA game, and the first game involving any major North American professional sports league, to take place on the continent of Africa. It was contested between Team Africa, featuring NBA players and alumni that were born in or had parents born in Africa, and Team World, featuring NBA players from the rest of the world. Team World won the exhibition game by a score of 101–97. <section begin=2015/>

title: NBA on CBS

text: game. Furthermore, CBS only broadcast the fifth game of the first-round series between Atlanta and Milwaukee nationally. The nationally televised Atlanta-Milwaukee game aired at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, while the regionally televised Chicago-Cleveland and Seattle/L.A. Lakers games aired at 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time. Perhaps even more confusing, both Game 5 sites (Coliseum at Richfield in Cleveland and Omni Coliseum in Atlanta) were in the Eastern Time Zone, so differing local start times were not a factor. Previously, CBS aired Game 2 of the Chicago-Cleveland series nationally, while relegating Game 2 of the Atlanta-Milwaukee series to TBS. CBS used its primary

text: National Basketball Association Christmas games Games held by the National Basketball Association (NBA) on Christmas Day, December 25, have been an annual tradition since the league's second season in 1947. Currently, five games are played on Christmas. Unlike the National Football League (NFL)'s traditional Thanksgiving Day games, the NBA's Christmas Day games have no fixed opponents; rather, they feature some of the best teams and players. Very often a rematch of the previous season's NBA Finals is showcased on Christmas Day. The first NBA game played on December 25 came in 1947, a year after the NBA's inception, when the

title: Lakers versus Celtics and the NBA Playoffs

text: be the first team basketball video game to acquire full players names and rights without actually relying on the NBA Players Association. Established stars in the game include Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (DOS version only), Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and Patrick Ewing. The game introduced innovations in presentation. It was the first NBA game to feature TV style starting line up prior to the opening tip. It also featured halftime shows and announcers to simulate an authentic feel. Later games would go further by replacing music during gameplay with audience cheers. The game was conceived by Producer Don Traeger, and

title: NBA on CBS

text: years began in the first week of May rather than the end of May, and as a result, the weeknight games were played during May ratings sweeps. Consequently, weeknight games held on the West Coast started at 8:30 p.m. Pacific Time, which was 11:30 p.m. in the Eastern Time Zone; those games could be shown live. However, non-West Coast weeknight games required tape-delay, to be shown at 11:30 p.m. The 1980–1981 season was arguably the rock bottom point of the tape delay era for CBS. CBS aired four of the six Finals games on tape delay and six of nine

title: NBA Friday

text: "Toyota Halftime Show", and the "Target Postgame Show" are the studio shows that occur before, during, and after the NBA Friday Games. "NBA Friday" on ESPN is not exclusive; local sports networks may still air the game in their market. In that case, the ESPN broadcast on these markets is subject to blackout and SportsCenter is usually aired instead. NBA Friday NBA Friday is a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on ESPN. Formerly known as "NBA Friday Coast to Coast" during doubleheader nights, the program starts the first Friday of the NBA season, and typically runs uninterrupted throughout

title: NBA Gametime Live

text: end of the night, via Skype or FaceTime, where they can comment or ask any question they want to them, face-to-face and have some fun with them. At the end of each game, a lucky viewer can win a customized game ball for the player of the game. The studio host and analysts vary every night on NBA Gametime. NBA Gametime Live NBA Gametime is a television program that is the flagship program of NBA TV. The show began airing on October 30, 2008. The show has a studio host and various studio analysts. It airs live and provides the

title: 2017–18 NBA season