Sports in Pittsburgh Sports in Pittsburgh Sports in Pittsburgh have been played dating back to the American Civil War. Baseball, hockey, and the first professional American football game had been played in the city by 1892. Pittsburgh was first known as the "City of Champions" when the Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Panthers, and Pittsburgh Steelers won multiple championships in the 1970s. Today, the city has three major professional sports franchises, the Pirates, Steelers, and Penguins; while the University of Pittsburgh Panthers compete in a Division I BCS conference, the highest level of collegiate athletics in the United States, in both football and basketball. Local
All Sports Team Hannover ongoing success of the All Sports Team. The training course is the Maschsee, a lake in the middle of Hanover city. The All Sports Team was highly involved in the technical development of dragon boat sport in Germany, because it is practicing the Hybrid Exit, a special paddling style. The most prominent paddler of the All Sports Team and during the 10-years-anniversary celebration in 2010 becoming honorary member, was the former home secretary and sports minister Uwe Schünemann. He joined the "Unification Day Cup" dragon boat races on the occasion of the German Unity Day dragon boat races. The first