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2 hours ago, ManillaToad said:

36-team NHL +4 renamings & 1 relocation (sorry 'Yotes)

 

Here's a map of the teams, because I like visuals a lot more than lists

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Bold: New franchise

Italics: Renamed franchise

Bold italics: Relocated franchise

 

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division:

Carolina Hurricanes, Florida Panthers, New Jersey Devils, New York Islanders, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Tampa Bay Lightning, Washington Capitals

 

Metropolitan Division:

Buffalo Sabres, Boston Bruins, Columbus Blue Jackets, Detroit Red Wings, Hamilton Tigers, Montreal Canadiens, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Nordiques, Toronto Maple Leafs

 

WESTERN CONFERENCE            

Central Division:

Chicago Blackhawks, Dallas Lone Stars, Houston Apollos, Indianapolis Racers, Kansas City Scouts, Minnesota North Stars, Nashville Predators, St. Louis Blues, Winnipeg Jets

 

Pacific Division:

Calgary Flames, Colorado Avalanche, Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, San Jose Sharks, Seattle Sockeyes, Vancouver Canucks, Vegas Golden Knights

 

 

 

ESPN/ABC and CBS/Turner would broadcast NHL games on U.S. national TV. Bell Media would take over Canadian rights to the NHL and takeover Hockey Night in Canada from CBC/Rogers, which would mark an end of an era

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My 36 team NHL

 

Clarence Campbell Conference

Smythe Division

Calgary Flames

Edmonton Oilers

Las Vegas Silver Knights

Los Angeles Kings

Mighty Ducks of Anaheim

Portland Wild

San Jose Sharks

Seattle Kraken

Vancouver Canucks

 

Norris Division

Chicago Blackhawks

Colorado Avalanche

Dallas Barons

Houston Aeros

Kansas City Twisters

Milwaukee Admirals

Minnesota North Stars

St. Louis Blues

Winnipeg Jets

 

Prince of Wales Conference

Adams Division

Boston Bruins

Buffalo Sabres

Cleveland Moondogs

Detroit Red Wings

Hamilton Tigers

Montreal Canadiens

Ottawa Senators

Toronto Maple Leafs

Quebec Nordiques

 

Patrick Division

Charlotte Checkers

Florida Panthers

New Jersey Devils

New York Islanders

New York Rangers

Philadelphia Flyers

Pittsburgh Penguins

Tampa Bay Lightning

Washington Capitals

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My 36 team NBA

 

Western Conference

Pacific

Golden State Warriors

Las Vegas Vipers

Los Angeles Lakers

Phoenix Suns

Portland Trail Blazers

Sacramento Kings

San Diego Clippers

Seattle Supersonics

Vancouver Grizzlies

 

Frontier

Dallas Mavericks

Denver Nuggets

Houston Rockets

Memphis Express

New Orleans Pelicans

Oklahoma City Thunder

San Antonio Spurs

Spirits of St. Louis

Utah Jazz

 

Eastern Conference

Central

Chicago Bulls

Cleveland Cavaliers

Detroit Pistons

Indiana Pacers

Kentucky Colonels

Milwaukee Bucks

Minnesota Timberwolves

Pittsburgh Pisces

Toronto Raptors

 

Atlantic

Atlanta Hawks

Boston Celtics

Brooklyn Nets

Charlotte Hornets

Miami Heat

New York Knicks

Orlando Magic

Philadelphia 76ers

Washington Federals

 

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After over 100 years, the NFL faces their toughest competitor. One that threatens to run the NFL out of business. A rich Saudi businessman born in New York named Kamil Abdulaziz* dreams of creating a competitor league to the NFL. The NFL rejected his bid to purchase his favorite team, the Jets, and he took that personally like Michael Jordan. so he creates the Gladiators of the Gridiron Football League, with Vince McMahon, Paramount Global and Warner Bros as co-founders. Abdulaziz gets a lot of interest from NFL teams to join but the shield gave them an ultimatum: if they join the GGFL, they would be banned for life from the NFL even if the GGFL folded and wanted to join the NFL again, so they backed off. The NFL did the same to Paramount and Warner, but that did not deter them. So Abdulaziz recruits businessmen from Saudi Arabia and other wealthy Gulf countries to own the GGFL teams. The teams would be in almost all existing NFL markets plus markets underserved or deserted by the NFL.

 

Eastern Conference

Atlantic Division

Boston Barons

Buffalo Stampede

New Jersey Cardinals

New York Orangemen

New York Pride

Philadelphia Keystones

 

Mid-Atlantic Division

Baltimore Blackbirds

Norfolk Cavaliers

Pittsburgh Yellow Knights

Richmond Rhinos

Washington Colonials

West Virginia Bears

 

Midwest Division

Chicago Hussars

Cincinnati White Tigers

Cleveland Comets

Columbus Cadets

Detroit Saracens

Indianapolis Chariots

 

Florida Division

Fort Lauderdale Caimans

Jacksonville Ducks

Miami Bottlenoses

Orlando Swans

Tallahassee Braves

Tampa Swashbucklers

 

Southern Division

Atlanta Vultures

Charlotte Cheetahs

Memphis Dogs

Nashville Catfish

New Orleans Crayfish

St. Louis River Dragons

 

Western Conference

Lone Star Division

Austin Rustlers

Dallas Rangers

Fort Worth Armadillos

El Paso Xolos

Houston Wildcats

Lubbock Vaqueros

San Antonio Eagles

 

Mountain Division

Denver Mountaineers

Kansas City Butchers

Minnesota Loons

Milwaukee Moors

Omaha Big Green

Phoenix Firebirds

Salt Lake Hornets

Wichita Reapers

 

Northwest Division

Boise Pacers

Portland Power

Oakland Jumbos

Sacramento Lumberjacks

San Francisco Wolves

San Jose Hammerheads

Seattle Ospreys

Spokane Gunners

 

SoCal Division

Anaheim Missions

Bakersfield Bulls

Long Beach Scorpions

Los Angeles Vipers

Riverside Magic

San Bernadino Matadors

San Diego Sailboats

 

The regular season is split into the Spring and Fall seasons. 24 games with 2 bye weeks = 26 weeks. Spring season and Fall season have 12 games (13 weeks).

 

Eastern Conference teams: 10 division games, 6 intraconference games, 8 interconference games.

Western Conference teams (Lone Star and SoCal teams): 12 division games, 7 or 8 intraconference games, 4 or 5 interconference games.

Western Conference teams (Mountain and Northwest teams): 14 division games, 7 or 8 intraconference games, 2 or 3 interconference games.

 

Season starts after the Super Bowl, and the Playoff system is the same as the NFL. Spring Season concludes with the Alpha Bowl in June and the Fall season starts on the Last Sunday of August and concludes on the last Sunday of December with the Omega Bowl.

 

The winners of the Alpha Bowl and Omega Bowl (unless 1 team wins both, which means the team with the best record of the non bowl winners gets the bid) meet in the Emirates Bowl which will take place in stadiums around the world, which takes place in the same day as the Super Bowl. It gives players the chance to travel the world as well as compete in a high stakes football game. The winner of the Emirates Bowl not only wins the Emirates Trophy, which is a 24 karat gold Stanley Cup like trophy with Arabic accents and some elements of the host city (eg. London would have the Big Ben tower and Paris would have the Eiffel Tower next to the trophy), every single player earns a million dollar bonus and the winning franchise goes home with 25 million dollars.

 

CBS, CBS Sports Network, Paramount Network, Paramount+ The CW, TNT, TBS, TruTV, HBO Max are the broadcasters.

 

*Once again, a made up person so any semblances to a real person is coincidental..

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My 16-team National Lacrosse League expansion

 

East Division

 

Albany FireWolves (Albany, New York)

Buffalo Bandits (Buffalo, New York)

Georgia Swarm (Duluth, Georgia)

Halifax Thunderbirds (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

New York Riptide (Uniondale, New York)

Philadelphia Wings (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Rochester Knighthawks (Rochester, New York)

Toronto Rock (Hamilton, Ontario)

 

West Division

 

Calgary Roughnecks (Calgary, Alberta)

Colorado Mammoth (Denver, Colorado)

Emerald City Lacrosse Club (Seattle, Washington)

Las Vegas Desert Dogs (Paradise, Nevada)

Panther City Lacrosse Club (Fort Worth, Texas)

San Diego Seals (San Diego, California)

Saskatchewan Rush (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

Vancouver Warriors (Vancouver, British Columbia)

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A followup to the Gladiators of the Gridiron Football League story..

 

3 years after the GGFL's founding in 2022, the NFL is sweating bullets. They lose CBS, elite college prospects to this new fledgling, monied league,  even some stars like Tom Brady jumps to the Gladiators of the Gridiron Football League in the 2024 season, as he recently led the San Francisco Wolves to an undefeated season and an Emirates Bowl win over the New York Pride, who won the first two. Goodell quickly reverses the ban on people involved in the GGFL. He also formed a partnership with the Saudi government that sends NFL ambassadors there to promote the century-old league. He quickly announces expansion teams in markets that were abandoned recently and even the past. Also a return of the Central divisions that were scrapped in 2002 so both conferences have 5 divisions, for a total of 10. The NFL playoffs expanded once again, this time to 20 teams.

 

American Football Conference

AFC Central

Chicago Tigers

Columbus Panhandles

Dayton Triangles

Detroit Wolverines

Louisville Breckenridges

 

AFC East

Boston Patriots

Buffalo Bills

Hartford Sea Monsters

Miami Dolphins

New York Jets

 

AFC North

Baltimore Ravens

Cincinnati Bengals

Cleveland Browns

Milwaukee Badgers

Pittsburgh Steelers

 

AFC South

Houston Texans

Indianapolis Colts

Jacksonville Jaguars

Memphis Express

Nashville Titans

 

AFC West

Denver Broncos

Kansas City Chiefs

Las Vegas Raiders

Los Angeles Earthquakes

San Diego Chargers

 

National Football Conference

NFC Central

Akron Pros

Cincinnati Celts

Muncie Flyers

Rochester Jeffersons

Toledo Maroons

 

NFC East

Boston Yanks

Dallas Cowboys

New York Giants

Philadelphia Eagles

Washington Commanders

 

NFC North

Chicago Bears

Detroit Lions

Green Bay Packers

Minnesota Vikings

St. Louis Stallions

 

NFC South

Atlanta Falcons

Charlotte Panthers

New Orleans Saints

Raleigh-Durham Skyhawks

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

 

NFC West

Arizona Cardinals

Los Angeles Rams

Portland Thunder

San Francisco 49ers

Seattle Seahawks

 

NFL TV Rights in 2025

AFC: CBS (was with NBC from 2022-2024 due to Paramount Global being banned from covering the NFL, Inside the NFL went to Peacock during that time)

NFC: FOX/Tubi (Tubi gets 1 exclusive national game of the week, which is usually the less glamorous game but sometimes big market teams show up so FOX Corp can get more subscribers into Tubi)

Sunday Night: USA and NBC (USA gets less glamorous games)

Monday Night: ESPN and ABC (ABC gets select games)

Thursday Night: Amazon Prime (Weeks 2-9), TNT & HBO Max (Weeks 10-17)

Some games (Mostly London and some Holiday games): NFL Network, Nickelodeon, Tubi (Nickelodeon also simulcasts Super Bowls on the year CBS gets it, as well as some Thanksgiving and Christmas games, and a Wildcard game)

 

Schedule Format

More or less the same format the NFL has today but with 22 games

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My Canadian Football League expansion proposal

 

EAST DIVISION

 

Hamilton Tiger-Cats

Montreal Alouettes

Ottawa Redblacks

Quebec Cavaliers

Toronto Argonauts

 

WEST DIVISION

 

BC Lions

Calgary Stampeders

Edmonton Elks

Saskatchewan Roughriders

Winnipeg Blue Bombers

 

English-language CFL television rights would be held by Sportsnet, while French-language television rights would be held by Canal+. National CFL radio rights would be held by SiriusXM.

 

CFL LOCAL RADIO BROADCASTERS

 

EAST DIVISION

 

Hamilton Tiger-Cats:  AM 900 CHML

Montreal Alouettes: TSN 690 (English) and 98,5 FM (French)

Ottawa Redblacks: TSN 1200 (English) and 104,7 FM (French)

Quebec Cavaliers: FM93

Toronto Argonauts: TSN 1050 and Newstalk 1010

 

WEST DIVISION

 

BC Lions: AM 730 and 980 CKNW

Calgary Stampeders: 770 CHQR

Edmonton Elks: 630 CHED

Saskatchewan Roughriders: 620 CKRM

Winnipeg Blue Bombers: 680 CJOB

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This would be NASCAR newest TV broadcasters

 

NASCAR Cup Series: FOX/FS1/FS2/FOX Business (Clash, Duel and Rounds 1-13), CBS/TNT/Motor Trend (All-Star Open, All-Star Race and Rounds 14-26) and NBC/USA/Peacock (NASCAR Playoffs)

NASCAR Xfinity Series: FOX/FS1/FS2/FOX Business (Rounds 1-12), CBS/TNT/Motor Trend (Rounds 12-23) and NBC/USA/Peacock (Rounds 24-26 and Xfinity Playoffs)

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series: FOX/FS1/FS2/FOX Business (Round 1-8), CBS/TNT/Motor Trend (Rounds 9-16) and NBC Sports (Truck Playoffs)

ARCA Menards Series East and West: DAZN would air live all standalone events and they would air later in a 45 min highlight show in the U.S.

ARCA Menards Series: FOX and FS1 would air 9 races, including one combination race; Motor Trend and DAZN would air simultaneously eleven races, including three combination series, in the U.S.

NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour: Motor Trend and DAZN would air simultaneously live all races in the U.S.

NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series: Motor Trend would air select NASCAR Roots events throughout the country, including weekly racing at Bowman Gray Stadium, New Smyrna Raceway and Berlin Speedway

NASCAR Pinty's Series: TSN (in English) and RDS (in French) would air all rounds for viewers in Canada, while DAZN would air all Pinty's Series rounds for viewers in the U.S., simulcasting the TSN feed

NASCAR Whelen Euro Series: Eurosport would air all rounds across Europe, while Motor Trend would air all rounds in the U.S. and TSN/RDS would air all rounds in Canada

NASCAR Peak Mexico Series: Claro Sports would air all rounds across Spanish-speaking Latin America, while FOX Deportes would air all rounds in the Spanish-speaking U.S.

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Power 2 Athletics Association (P2AA) - The Big Ten and SEC break away from the NCAA.

 

Big Ten:

  • Eastern Division: Boston College, Maryland, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Syracuse
  • Great Plains Division: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Wisconsin
  • Rust Belt Division: Indiana, Notre Dame, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Purdue
  • Western Division: California, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington

SEC:

  • Appalachian Division: Clemson, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
  • Deep South Division: Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Ole Miss,  Mississippi State, Tulane
  • Florida-Georgia Division: Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Miami, UCF
  • Western Division: Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M
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10 hours ago, TrueYankee26 said:

Power 2 Athletics Association (P2AA) - The Big Ten and SEC break away from the NCAA.

 

Big Ten:

  • Eastern Division: Boston College, Maryland, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Syracuse
  • Great Plains Division: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Wisconsin
  • Rust Belt Division: Indiana, Notre Dame, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Purdue
  • Western Division: California, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington

SEC:

  • Appalachian Division: Clemson, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
  • Deep South Division: Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Ole Miss,  Mississippi State, Tulane
  • Florida-Georgia Division: Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Miami, UCF
  • Western Division: Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M

Interesting this one. The P2AA would be a great competitor to the NCAA.

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The Liga Mexicana de Béisbol (LMB) would expand to 24 teams, with three in each division, plus two new borderplex teams

 

NORTH DIVISION

 

Acereros de Monclova (Monclova, Coahuila)

Algodoneros de Unión Laguna (Torreón, Coahuila)

Broncos del Río Grande (Reynosa, Tamaulipas/McAllen, Texas)

Generales de Durango (Durango, Durango)

Guardianes del Paso del Norte (Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua/El Paso, Texas/Las Cruces, New Mexico)

Los Ángeles de La Paz (La Paz, Baja California Sur)

Mariachis de Guadalajara (Zapopan, Jalisco)

Rieleros de Aguascalientes (Aguascalientes City, Aguascalientes)

Saraperos de Saltillo (Saltillo, Coahuila)

Sultanes de Monterrey (Monterrey, Nuevo León)

Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos (Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas/Laredo, Texas)

Toros de Tijuana (Tijuana, Baja California)

 

SOUTH DIVISION

 

Alijadores de Chiapas (Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas)

Bravos de León (León, Guanajuato)

Cimarrones de Toluca (Toluca de Lerdo, State of Mexico)

Diablos Rojos del México (iztacalco, Mexico City)

El Águila de Veracruz (Veracruz City, Veracruz)

Guerreros de Oaxaca (Oaxaca City, Oaxaca)

Leones de Yucatán (Mérida, Yucatán)

Olmecas de Tabasco (Villahermosa, Tabasco)

Pericos de Puebla (Puebla City, Puebla)

Piratas de Campeche (Campeche City, Campeche)

Tigres de Quintana Roo (Cancún, Quintana Roo)

Vigilantes de Pachuca (Pachuca de Soto, Hidalgo)

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Here's my plan for a "Power Division" of the NCAA or separate association, however you want to look at it. There are currently 64 power 5 conference schools. Add in the 4 incoming to the B XII (BYU, Cincinnati, Houston & UCF) and you get 68. Notre Dame, for all intents and purposes, is a power 5 school who's independent, so add them. That brings the total to 69 schools. Well with 72, you can make 6 conferences of 12, so I added Boise State, Memphis (who I think should've been in the Big XII additions), & San Diego State. They seem to be the next group of Group of 5 schools who are either legit contenders each year or get mentioned in expansion talks. So next, I decided to split them regionally like many suggest. I then just re-used current conference names (and rehashed the old Southwest Conference name) for the hell of it. This is what I came up with.  A few notes: the Utah schools seem to fit better with the Pacific Northwest schools, so they went out west and the Arizona schools, the southwest. Colorado seemed to fit better there as well. The southeast/atlantic region had multiple avenues of alignment. In the end, a rather simple SEC-ACC split worked out pretty well. Even though I was trying to keep same-state-schools together as much as possible, Florida and Georgia Tech were swapped because it bridged the gap, so to speak, between Florida and the other ACC schools, and was just too easy to keep those traditional alignments in place.

REGION WEST SOUTHWEST MIDWEST EAST SOUTHEAST ATLANTIC
CONF. NAME PAC-12 SOUTHWEST BIG 12 BIG TEN SEC ACC
  Boise State Arizona Illinois Boston College Alabama Clemson
  BYU Arizona State Indiana Cincinnati Auburn Duke
  California Arkansas Iowa Maryland Florida Florida State
  Oregon Baylor Iowa State Michigan Georgia Georgia Tech
  Oregon State Colorado Kansas Michigan State Kentucky Miami
  San Diego State Houston Kansas State Nortre Dame Louisville NC State
  Stanford Oklahoma Minnesota Ohio State LSU North Carolina
  UCLA Oklahoma State Missouri Penn State Memphis South Carolina
  USC TCU Nebraska Pittsburgh Mississippi State UCF
  Utah Texas Northwestern Rutgers Ole Miss Virginia
  Washington St Texas A&M Purdue Syracuse Tennessee Virginia Tech
  Washington Texas Tech Wisconsin West Virginia Vanderbilt Wake Forest

 

Here's a color-coded map of the regions. (I simply noted Arkansas with the color where they're located in the state to show their proximity to the rest of the Southwest Conference.)

NCAA-POWER-REGION-MAP.png

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On 7/1/2022 at 8:39 AM, Marcos Flamengo said:

Interesting this one. The P2AA would be a great competitor to the NCAA.

If you are wondering about the fate of the rest of the other Power 5 Conferences

 

Oregon State and Washington State join the Mountain West, who merge with the Big Sky Conference.

 

Pac-Mount Conference:

  • Southern Mountain Division: Air Force, Colorado State, Montana, Montana State, New Mexico, New Mexico State, Northern Colorado, Wyoming
  • Cascadia Division: Boise State, Eastern Washington, Idaho, Idaho State, Oregon State, Portland State, Sacramento State, Washington State
  • Southwest Division: Fresno State, Hawaii, Nevada, Northern Arizona, San Diego State, San Jose State, UNLV, Utah State, Weber State

Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah join the Big 12 who absorbs the rest of the ex-SWC members still in a non-Power 5 conference.

 

Big 12:

  • North Division: Cincinnati, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Marshall, Oklahoma State, Temple, Tulsa, West Virginia, Western Kentucky
  • Southeast Division: Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, FIU, Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee, Memphis, Navy, Southern Miss, UAB, USF
  • Southwest Division: Arizona, Arizona State, Baylor, BYU, Colorado, Houston, Rice, SMU, TCU, Utah

 

ACC still exists but they absorb the Sun Belt and some Northeastern teams

 

ACC:

  • Upper South Division: Appalachian State, East Carolina, Duke, James Madison, Louisville, NC State, Old Dominion, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest
  • Deep South Division: Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia State, Georgia Southern, Jackson State, Jacksonville State, Louisiana, Louisiana Monroe, South Alabama, Troy
  • Northeast Division: Army, Boston, Buffalo, Delaware, Liberty, Monmouth, Stony Brook, Towson, UConn, UMass
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Forgot division names for ACC
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9 hours ago, TrueYankee26 said:

If you are wondering about the fate of the rest of the other Power 5 Conferences

 

Oregon State and Washington State join the Mountain West, who merge with the Big Sky Conference.

 

Pac-Mount Conference:

  • Southern Mountain Division: Air Force, Colorado State, Montana, Montana State, New Mexico, New Mexico State, Northern Colorado, Wyoming
  • Cascadia Division: Boise State, Eastern Washington, Idaho, Idaho State, Oregon State, Portland State, Sacramento State, Washington State
  • Southwest Division: Fresno State, Hawaii, Nevada, Northern Arizona, San Diego State, San Jose State, UNLV, Utah State, Weber State

Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah join the Big 12 who absorbs the rest of the ex-SWC members still in a non-Power 5 conference.

 

Big 12:

  • Lone Star Division: Baylor, Houston, North Texas, Rice, SMU, Southern Miss, TCU, Texas State, UTEP, UTSA
  • North Division: Cincinnati, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Marshall, Oklahoma State, Temple, Tulsa, West Virginia, Western Kentucky
  • South Division: BYU, Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, FIU, Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee, Memphis, Navy, UAB, USF

ACC still exists but they absorb the Sun Belt and some Northeastern teams

 

ACC:

  • Appalachian State, East Carolina, Duke, James Madison, Louisville, NC State, Old Dominion, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest
  • Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia State, Georgia Southern, Jackson State, Jacksonville State, Louisiana, Louisiana Monroe, South Alabama, Troy
  • Army, Boston, Buffalo, Delaware, Liberty, Monmouth, Stony Brook, Towson, UConn, UMass

It would be an interesting one. A major merger of conferences.

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The Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional (LNBP) from Mexico would expand to 12 teams

 

EAST DIVISION

 

Correcaminos UAT Victoria (Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas)

Dorados de Chihuahua (Chihuahua City, Chihuahua)

Fuerza Regia de Monterrey (Monterrey, Nuevo León)

Mineros de Zacatecas (Zacatecas City, Zacatecas)

Plateros de Fresnillo (Fresnillo, Zacatecas)

Tiburones de Aguascalientes (Aguascalientes City, Aguascalientes)

 

WEST DIVISION

 

Abejas de León (León, Guanajuato)

Astros de Jalisco (Guadalajara, Jalisco)

Halcones de Xalapa (Xalapa, Veracruz)

Libertadores de Querétaro (Querétaro City, Querétaro)

Soles de Mexicali (Mexicali, Baja California)

Tigres de La Paz (La Paz, Baja California Sur)

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Here’s my (much-improved) plan for a 32-team MLB realignment with the addition of Nashville (Stars was the reported nickname) and Montreal Expos 2.0 (instead of Charlotte as I imagined a couple years back).

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This assumes the Rays stay put and the A’s remain out west (Oakland or possibly Vegas). A western expansion team would complicate things as the Rockies would be roped in with the Central teams.

 

Annual home-and-home interleague pairings: Blue Jays-Expos, Red Sox-Phillies, Yankees-Mets, Orioles-Nats, Guardians-Reds, Tigers-Pirates, White Sox-Cubs, Twins-Brewers, Royals-Cardinals, Stars-Braves, Rays-Marlins, Astros-Rangers, Rockies-D’backs, Mariners-Padres, A’s-Giants, Angels-Dodgers.

 

Why flip the Rockies and Rangers?

To evenly split the 8 western clubs and two Texas teams between the leagues. And with the NFL’s Raiders gone to Vegas this (maybe) creates a new Oakland-Denver rivalry (and Seattle-Denver as well).

 

Why not the Astros?

Three recent AL pennants. Plus the Brewers aren’t returning to the AL, so why return the Astros to the NL?

 

Nationals in the NL South?

Fifty years ago the Washington Senators left RFK Stadium for Dallas-Ft. Worth... “How ‘bout them Rangers?”

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The NFL kept their teams from joining the GGFL. MLB.... was not so lucky.

 

MLB faces a takeover bid whcih they fend off. But the man behind the takeover, an Englishman named Malcolm Cash*, create the Premier League of Baseball, and successfully lures the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox, Braves, Cubs, White Sox, Cardinals, Dodgers, Angels, Astros and Giants.

 

In response, the MLB tries to sue and lose. So they call up minor league teams of those clubs to MLB and replace the defecting teams.

 

AL East

Baltimore Orioles

Boston Sea Dogs

New York RailRiders

Tampa Bay Rays

Toronto Blue Jays

 

AL Central

Chicago Knights

Cleveland Guardians

Detroit Tigers

Kansas City Royals

Minnesota Twins

 

AL West

Houston Space Cowboys

Los Angeles 66ers

Oakland Athletics

Seattle Mariners

Texas Rangers

 

NL East

Atlanta Stripers

Miami Marlins

New York Cyclones

Philadelphia Phillies

Washington Nationals

 

NL Central

Chicago American Giants

Cincinnati Reds

Milwaukee Brewers

Pittsburgh Pirates

St. Louis Redbirds

 

NL West

Arizona Diamondbacks

Colorado Rockies

Los Angeles Quakes

San Diego Padres

San Francisco River Cats

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My 40-team National Football League (NFL) expansion/realignment proposal

 

AFC

 

AFC East

Baltimore Ravens

Buffalo Bills

Miami Dolphins

New England Patriots

Toronto Jets

 

AFC North

Cincinnati Bengals

Cleveland Browns

Columbus Panhandles

Pittsburgh Steelers

Richmond Rhinos

 

AFC South

Houston Texans

Indianapolis Colts

Jacksonville Jaguars

St. Louis Arrows

Tennessee Titans

 

AFC West

Denver Broncos

Las Vegas Raiders

Portland Thunderbolts

Sacramento Tigers

San Diego Chargers

 

NFC

 

NFC East

Carolina Panthers

Montreal Wolverines

New York Giants

Philadelphia Eagles

Washington Commanders

 

NFC North

Akron Pros

Chicago Bears

Detroit Lions

Green Bay Packers

Minnesota Vikings

 

NFC South

Atlanta Falcons

Dallas Cowboys

Kansas City Chiefs

New Orleans Saints

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

 

NFC West

Arizona Cardinals

Los Angeles Rams

San Francisco 49ers

Seattle Seahawks

Utah Storm

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