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Cincinnati Slammers Continental Basketball Association

Cincinnati Slammers

July 18, 2020

During the early-to-mid 1980’s, the Continental Basketball Association made several efforts to grab a foothold in “Major League” cities.  The CBA, at the time, was akin to triple-A baseball and had a formal partnership with the NBA. While the CBA established passionate followings in cities like Albany, New York and La Crosse, Wisconsin during the 1980’s, the league’s experience in Cincinnati was typical of the box office busts that resulted from each one of its major market adventures.

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Cincinnati Mighty Ducks American Hockey League

Cincinnati Mighty Ducks

February 9, 2020

The Mighty Ducks were the Disney-fied half of Cincinnati’s unusual intra-city minor league hockey rivalry of the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. The Ducks, who served as the top farm club of the NHL’s Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the American Hockey League, played at the Cincinnati Gardens. The Cyclones, of the International Hockey League, played at the larger and more modern Riverfront Coliseum. Both teams fell on hard times in the mid-2000’s and the Ducks closed their doors in 2005 after Anaheim withdrew its support of the team.

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