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The BSN league has had teams in many cities, although for economical reasons, they prefer to stay within Puerto Rico's larger towns. Each year, the regular season is played to a length of either 30 or 33 games per team, and then there is a round robin pitting the best 8 teams of the season, after which the best 4 start the semi-final series, to be played to a best of 7, followed by the finals, also to a best of 7.
In 2003, the Cangrejeros de Santurce won their fifth franchise BSN title by sweeping the defending champion, Leones de Ponce. The Leones have 12 championships. The Vaqueros de Bayamon and Atleticos de San German are tied with 13 championships each for the league's all-time championship lead.
The BSN was a struggling league economically until the 1980s, when, with Genaro 'Tuto' Marchand as President, an explosion of basketball popularity happened all over Puerto Rico. Basketball tumbled Baseball as the Puerto Rican fan's 2nd favorite sport after boxing at that time.
The fact that WAPA-TV channel 4 transmitted 6 games a week for the whole island to see, was a major contributor to this change in popularity. These games were shown Sundays at 2 pm, Sundays at 9 pm, Wednesday nights at 9, Friday nights at 9, and Saturdays at 2 pm and at 9 pm.
During that time, legends like Mario Morales, Raymond Dalmau, Jose Piculin Ortiz, Jerome Mincy, Georgie Torres, Angelo Cruz, Angel Cachorro Santiago, Federico Fico Lopez and Ruben Rodriguez showcased their talents to all Puerto Rican TV viewers and game goers.
After Hetin Reyes took the league over there were economic problems, but in part this is due to the rise in the cost of living. Nevertheless, the league continues to operate with 16 franchises and is looking at the future with optimism.
Member Teams
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "BSN."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BSN | Dutch | Achterwaarts volgordenummer | Electrical Engineering |
BSN | English | Barium Sodium Niobate | Chemistry |
BSN | French | Numéro de séquence vers l'arrière | Electrical Engineering |
BSN | Italian | Numero di sequenza di ritorno | Electrical Engineering |
BSN | Spanish | Número secuencial hacia atrás | Electrical Engineering |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| "BSN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "BSN" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 55.56% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
rn to bsn | 60 |
rn to bsn online | 31 |
rn to bsn program | 26 |
accelerated bsn | 14 |
accelerated bsn program | 14 |
bsn jobst | 13 |
online rn to bsn program | 12 |
lpn to bsn | 7 |
lpn to bsn program | 7 |
bsn lvn program | 4 |
bsn linc | 3 |
bsn jobst inc | 2 |
bsn glas | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-n-s" | |
+1 letter: bans, bens, bins, buns, nabs, nebs, nibs, nobs, nubs, snib, snob, snub. | |
+2 letters: bands, banes, bangs, banks, banns, barns, basin, beans, bends, benes, bents, binds, bines, bints, bison, bonds, bones, bongs, bonks, bonus, boons, boson, bosun, brans, brens, brins, bunds, bungs, bunks, bunns, bunts, burns, ebons, knobs, nabes, nabis, numbs, sabin, snibs, snobs, snubs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 53 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... ... -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01010011 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B S N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0053 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)365348 |
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