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The 2011 Twins, despite their high payroll and high expectations, feature few players who, without qualification, can be called first-division performers.

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A chiva is indeed a baby female goat, and there is indeed a Mexican first-division soccer team named Chivas.

Gustavo Arellano: ¡ASK A MEXICAN!: Chivas and AIDS Tests Gustavo Arellano 2011

He has not played in a first-division game since, spending the first half of this French season with Sochaux's reserve squad.

D.C. United acquires Charlie Davies on a season-long loan from French club Sochaux Steve Goff 2011

He did this for the first time in 2001, when he acquired a controlling stake in KSK Beveren, a first-division Belgian team on the brink of bankruptcy.

Young African Football Players Are a Hot Commodity in Europe | Impact Lab 2010

The National Collegiate Athletic Association reported late last month that 79 percent of student-athletes in first-division schools graduated, based on an analysis of students who began college in 2003.

NCAA grad rates rising; Loyola U. nearly perfect Daniel de Vise 2010

As a miner, Lobos, 53, is paid about 700,000 Chilean pesos a month (£915) – around a quarter of what he was earning as a first-division footballer.

Trapped Chilean miners: How did a former footballing hero come to be one of the 33? 2010

Last year, English first-division team Liverpool paid a club record of about $39.7 million for striker Fernando Torres.

One Team Gets 26,000 Owners 2008

Argentina's 18 first-division clubs have a combined debt of more than $200 million -- twice their annual revenues.

Racing Against Time 2008

But practically every NBA team has sent a scout to see him play in Vrsac, Serbia, for first-division team KK Hemofarm.

USATODAY.com - Serbian teen lost in King James' shadow 2003

April 3, 1961 - Green Cross, a first-division Chilean soccer team, in the

Athlete plane crashes 1999