The NBA team that was first to be swept out was the San Antonio spurs and yet they were the 2007 NBA Champions.
Eight. Two wild cards and the two lower ranking division champions in each conference.
It was the 2010 world cup, both Italy winners and France runner ups were knocked out in the first round.
The first year of the Champions League was in 1992. But if you are referring to the first year of the Champions League as in first year of European cup it was in 1955.
Just the one: they are the defending champions, having won it in 2010.
In the NFL, yes. The wildcard round is the first round of the NFL Playoffs.
they are in 2nd place and will be playing against the blackhawks for the cup. their first game together will be on Saturday May 29 2010 at 8pm.
The first game will be on the Thursday after Labor Day when the New Orleans Saints will open up their season as defending Super Bowl champions - the opponant has yet to be named but there is speculation it will be the Minnesota Vikings, the team the Saints defeated in the NFC Title Game.
The first All-Ireland Football Champions were Limerick, represented by the club Commercials.
No American has won the Champions League to my knowledge.
A team gets the first round bye in the playoffs if it has one of the top two records in its conference.
It wasn't Lou Gehrig. Gehrig played his final game early in the 1939 season and was replaced by Babe Dahlgren who was the Yankees starting first baseman for the 1939 and 1940 seasons.
Boston Redsox When the National Professional Baseball League was formed in 1876, the first champions were the Chicago Cubs. There was only one "Major" league and no World Series, or playoffs occured. The first World Series matching the winners of the National League against the winner of the American League was played in 1903 and won by the Boston Red Sox, the American League Champions over the National League champion Pittsburgh Pirates 5 games to 3.