It used to be that players in professional sports could change teams only if they were traded, sold or released.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

The idea is to help keep a competitive balance by preventing the wealthiest teams from getting all the good players.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

The Negro League teams were started in the nineteen twenties to give black people a place to play baseball.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

But last week, two teams working independently reported a discovery that could help lead to a universal flu vaccine.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

By the time he finished high school, Roberto had received several other offers from major league teams in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Critics say Jackson's success is not a result of his coaching skills as much as having superstar athletes on his teams.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

This is a four-team grouping that contains three or four strong teams - all with hopes of winning it all.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

Ranger Freeman said members of search-and-rescue teams have a saying that victims are not dead until they are warm and dead.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

On an average day,it says, almost twenty-seven thousand doctors, nurses and others work in teams of local and foreign aid workers.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

Mister Jungen has said that the sports industry makes free use of American Indian words and images to describe its teams.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

Kathleen Sebelius says the United States had medical teams in Haiti well before the earthquake and will have them there well after.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

Two teams take turns pushing stones weighing almost twenty kilograms towards a circular target drawn on the ice.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

Over the years, when its sports teams have done well, Pittsburgh has been called the "City of Champions."

VOA: special.2009.07.13

In the United States,for example, more than twenty thousand teams are preparing for what organizers call memory walks.

VOA: special.2009.09.15