The short-lived Denver Stars were the first and only champions of Major League Rodeo, a controversial 1978 start-up that sought to impose the conventions of American team sports leagues onto the rugged individualism of professional rodeo competition.
The Long Beach Chiefs were a professional basketball team that played at Long Beach Arena during November & December of 1962. The Chiefs were members of the American Basketball League (ABL), a wanna-be rival to the NBA formed by Harlem Globetrotters promoter Abe Saperstein the previous year. The team started out as the Hawaii Chiefs during the ABL’s debut season of 1961-62. Owner Art Kim moved the franchise to Long Beach for the league’s second season. But the league folded on New Year’s Eve 1962 without completing its schedule, taking the Chiefs down with it.
Continental Basketball Association (1991-2001) Born: September 1990 – CBA expansion franchise Folded: February 8, 2001 First Game: November 8, 1991 (L 99-89 vs. Columbus Horizon)
The Mississippi Coast Sharks were a doomed minor league basketball team that played just 16 games out of a planned 56-game schedule at Biloxi’s Mississippi Coast Coliseum before its league, the Global Basketball Association, folded in midseason in December 1992.
Pretty terrific on the field. Pretty messy off of it. That was more or less the book on the Colorado Spring Spirit. The minor league football outfit won 17 of 23 games over two seasons before its players and coaches simply walked away from their first place team midway through its sophomore campaign in the Minor League Football System.
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