Sports Teams
These started as works teams, but over the years came to include professional players:
- NEC Blue Rockets (men's volleyball)
- NEC Red Rockets (women's volleyball)
- NEC Green Rockets (men's rugby union)
NEC also used to own Montedio Yamagata of the football (soccer) J. League, but as of 2009 just sponsors them along with other local companies.
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Famous quotes containing the words sports and/or teams:
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)