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Do not fill this in! ==Sports== {| class="wikitable" style="width:98%;" |- style="background:#adadad;" | style="width:150px;"|'''Club''' | style="width:120px;"|'''Sport''' | style="width:270px;"| '''League''' | style="width:180px;"| '''Venue''' |- |[[Flint City Bucks]] |[[Soccer]] |[[USL League 2]] |[[Atwood Stadium]] |- |[[Flint Rogues Rugby Club]] |[[Rugby union|Rugby]] |[[Michigan Rugby Football Union]] |[[Longway Park]] |- |[[Flint Fury]] |[[American football|Football]] |[[Midwest Elite Football Alliance]] |[[Flint Hamady High School]] |- |[[Flint United]] |[[Men's Basketball]] |[[The Basketball League]] |[[Dort Financial Center]] |- |[[Flint Monarchs]] |[[Women's basketball]] |[[Women's American Basketball]]<ref name=FlintTeams>{{cite news|last1=Woodyard|first1=Eric|title=Flint Monarchs locked in to become city's first professional women's basketball team|url=http://www.mlive.com/sports/flint/index.ssf/2013/08/flint_monarchs_locked_in_to_be.html|access-date=June 12, 2014|work=Mlive|date=August 12, 2013}}</ref> |[[Dort Financial Center]] |- |[[Flint Firebirds]] |[[Ice hockey|Hockey]] |[[Ontario Hockey League]] |[[Dort Financial Center]] |- |[[Flint City Handball Club]] |[[Club Team Handball]] |[[To be determined|TBD]] |[[Berston Fieldhouse]] |} ===American football=== There is [[Semi-professional|semi-pro]] football at Atwood Stadium with the Flint Fury. Atwood is an 11,000+ seat stadium in downtown Flint which has hosted many events, including baseball. When [[artificial turf]] was installed, it was no longer able to host baseball games.{{why|date=March 2016}} The Flint Fury have been in action since 2003, and are currently a part of the [[Great Lakes Football League]]. The team was founded by two of its players; Charles Lawler and Prince Goodson, who both played for the defunct Flint Falcons semi-pro team. The team is now solely owned by Lawler. The 2009 [[Heisman Trophy]] winner [[Mark Ingram II]], born and raised in Grand Blanc, attended his final year of high school at Flint Southwestern Academy. He won the Heisman with 1304 total votes. Ingram attended the [[University of Alabama]] and is their first Heisman winner. He was a member of the National Champion [[2009 Alabama Crimson Tide football team]]. ===Basketball=== Many Flint natives have played basketball in the [[National Basketball Association]] (NBA), [[NCAA Division 1]] or European professional basketball. [[NBA champion]] [[Glen Rice]], [[Eddie Robinson (basketball)|Eddie Robinson]] and three-time [[NBA champion]] [[JaVale McGee]], and [[Washington Wizards]] forward [[Kyle Kuzma]] all hail from Flint,<ref>[http://hoopsaddict.com/2006/05/24/flint-star-the-greatest-player-from-flint-you%E2%80%99ve-never-heard-of/ Flint Star: The Greatest Player From Flint You've Never Heard Of, ''HoopsAddict.com'' Retrieved July 19, 2007] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070822142248/http://hoopsaddict.com/2006/05/24/flint-star-the-greatest-player-from-flint-you%E2%80%99ve-never-heard-of/ |date=August 22, 2007 }}</ref> as do [[Morris Peterson]], [[Mateen Cleaves]], and [[Charlie Bell (basketball)|Charlie Bell]] (four of the five starters from [[Michigan State University]]'s "[[Flintstones (basketball)|Flintstones]]" 2000 National Championship team). Local teacher and independent film maker Marcus Davenport chronicles Flint's ties to basketball and the basketball culture in his documentary ''Flint Star: The Motion Picture''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.flintstarmovie.com/ |title=Flint Star: The Motion Picture |publisher=Flintstarmovie.com |access-date=May 21, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514140611/http://www.flintstarmovie.com/ |archive-date=May 14, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elevationmag.com/basketball/index.php?itemid=206 |title=Catching up with Marcus Davenport maker of Flint Star "The Motion Picture" |publisher=Elevationmag.com |access-date=May 21, 2012}}</ref> [[Will Ferrell]]'s 2008 movie ''[[Semi-Pro]]'' is based on the fictional basketball team the "Flint Tropics".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.flinttropicsshirts.com/ |title=Flint Tropics |publisher=Flinttropicsshirts.com |access-date=May 21, 2012}}</ref> ===Ice hockey=== On January 14, 2015, the [[Ontario Hockey League]]'s [[Plymouth Whalers]] were relocated to Flint after a sale of the team to the owner of Perani Arena for the 2015β16 season.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mlive.com/sports/flint/index.ssf/2015/02/its_official_ontario_hockey_le.html|title=It's official: Ontario Hockey League approves Plymouth Whalers' move to Flint|work=MLive.com|date=February 2, 2015}}</ref> The team changed its name to the [[Flint Firebirds]]. ===Other sports=== Flint is twinned with [[Hamilton, Ontario]], and its amateur athletes compete in the [[CANUSA Games]], held alternatively between the two cities since 1957. ===Former sports teams=== {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" style="width:98%;" |- style="background:#adadad;" | style="width:150px;"|'''Club''' | style="width:120px;"|'''Sport''' | style="width:270px;"| '''League''' | style="width:180px;"| '''Venue''' |- |Flint Flames (2000) |[[Arena football]] |[[Indoor Football League]] |IMA Sports Arena |- |[[Michigan Pirates]] (2007) |Arena Football |[[Continental Indoor Football League]] |[[Perani Arena and Event Center]] |- |[[Flint Phantoms]] (2008) |Arena Football |[[Continental Indoor Football League]] |Perani Arena and Event Center |- |[[Flint Flyers]] (1889β1891) |[[Baseball]] |[[Michigan State League]] |Venue Unknown |- |[[Flint Vehicles]] (1906β1915, 1921β1925) |Baseball |Michigan-Ontario League |Athletic Park |- |Flint Halligans (1919β1920) |Baseball |[[Michigan-Ontario League]] |[[Athletic Park (Flint)|Athletic Park]] |- |[[Flint Gems]] (1940) |Baseball |Michigan State League |[[Atwood Stadium]] |- |[[Flint Indians]] (1941) |Baseball |Michigan State League |Atwood Stadium |- |[[Flint Arrows]] (1948β1951) |Baseball |[[Central League (baseball)|Central League]] |Atwood Stadium |- |Flint Pros (1972β1974) |[[Basketball]] |[[Continental Basketball Association]]<ref name=FlintTeams/> |[[IMA Auditorium]] |- |[[Flint Fuze]] (2001) |Basketball<ref name=FlintTeams/> |Continental Basketball Association |[[Perani Arena and Event Center|IMA Sports Arena]] |- |[[University of Michigan-Flint|UM-Flint]] Kodiaks |[[College football|College Football]] |[[National Club Football Association]] |Atwood Stadium |- |[[Flint Wildcats]] (1974β1977) |[[American football|Football]] |Midwest Football League |Atwood Stadium |- |[[Flint Sabres]] (1974β1988) |Football |Midwest Football League |Atwood Stadium |- |[[Flint Falcons]] (1992β2001) |Football |[[Michigan Football League, Ohio Valley Football League]] |Atwood Stadium, [[Holy Redeemer Field]] |- |[[Michigan Admirals]] (2002β2009) |Football |North American Football League, United States Football Alliance |[[Hamady Field]], [[Russ Reynolds Field]], [[Atwood Stadium]] |- |[[Genesee County Patriots]] (2003β2009) |Football |Ohio Valley Football League, North American Football League |Atwood Stadium, [[Guy V. Houston Stadium]] |- |Flint Blue Devils |Football |League unknown |Atwood Stadium |- |Flint Yellow Jackets |Football |League unknown |Atwood Stadium |- |[[Flint Rampage]] |Football |[[Great Lakes Football League]] |Atwood Stadium |- |[[Flint Generals (1969β1985)]] |[[Ice hockey|Hockey]] |[[International Hockey League (1945β2001)|International Hockey League]] |[[Perani Arena and Event Center|IMA Center]] |- |[[Flint Spirits]] (1985β1990) |Hockey |[[International Hockey League (1945β2001)|International Hockey League]] |IMA Sports Arena |- |[[Flint Bulldogs]] (1991β1993) |Hockey |[[United Hockey League|Colonial Hockey League]] |IMA Sports Arena |- |[[Flint Generals]] (1993β2010) |Hockey |[[United Hockey League|Colonial/United/International Hockey League]] (1993β2010) |Perani Arena and Event Center |- |[[Michigan Warriors]] (2010β2015) |Hockey |[[North American Hockey League]] |[[Perani Arena]], [[Iceland Arena]] |- |[[Flint City Riveters]] |Women's Football |[[Women's Football Alliance]] |Guy V. Houston Stadium |- |[[Michigan Phoenix]] |[[Women's Soccer]] |[[Women's Premier Soccer League]] |[[Guy V. Houston Stadium]] |- | [[Waza Flo]] | indoor soccer | [[Major Arena Soccer League]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Woodyard|first1=Eric|title=Major Arena Soccer League team moves home games to Flint's Dort Federal Event Center|url=http://www.mlive.com/sports/flint/index.ssf/2015/09/major_arena_soccer_league_team.html|access-date=November 16, 2015|work=Flint Journal|publisher=Mlive Media Group|date=September 29, 2015}}</ref> | Dort Federal Credit Union Event Center |} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! 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