2000 ATP Buenos Aires
The 2000 ATP Buenos Aires was an ATP Challenger Series tennis tournament held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The tournament was held from November 20 to November 27.


2000 ATP Buenos Aires, Finals, Doubles
Pablo Albano /  Lucas Arnold Ker defeated  Sergio Roitman /  Andrés Schneiter 6–3, 4–6, 6–2


2000 ATP Challenger Series
The ATP Challenger Series is the second tier tour for professional tennis organised by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). The 2000 ATP Challenger Series calendar comprised 121 tournaments, with prize money ranging from $25,000 up to $125,000.


2000 ATP Tour
The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour is the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the ATP tour. The 2000 ATP Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), the tennis event at the 2000 Summer Olympics, the Tennis Masters Series, the ATP International Series Gold, the ATP International Series, the ATP World Team Cup, the Tennis Masters Cup and the ATP Tour World Doubles Championships. Also included in the 2000 calendar are the Davis Cup and the Hopman Cup, which do not distribute ranking points, and are both organised by the ITF.


2000 ATP Tour, Schedule
Schedule of events on the 2000 calendar, with player progression documented from the quarterfinals stage.


2000 ATP Tour, Statistical information
These tables present the number of singles (S), doubles (D), and mixed doubles (X) titles won by each player and each nation during the season, within all the tournament categories of the 2000 ATP Tour: the Grand Slam tournaments, the tennis event at the Summer Olympics, the year-end championships (Tennis Masters Cup and ATP Tour World Doubles Championships), the Tennis Masters Series, the ATP International Series Gold, and the ATP International Series.


2000 ATP Tour, Statistical information
The players/nations are sorted by: 1) total number of titles (a doubles title won by two players representing the same nation counts as only one win for the nation); 2) cumulated importance of those titles (one Grand Slam win equalling two Masters Series wins, one year-end championships equalling one-and-a-half Masters Series win, one Olympics win or Masters Series win equalling two International Series Gold wins, one International Series Gold win equalling two International Series wins); 3) a singles > doubles > mixed doubles hierarchy; 4) alphabetical order (by family names for players).


2000 ATP Tour, ATP rankings
These are the ATP Rankings of the top twenty singles players, doubles players, and the top ten doubles teams on the ATP Tour, at the end of the 1999 ATP Tour, and of the 2000 season, with number of rankings points, number of tournaments played, year-end ranking in 1999, highest and lowest position during the season (for singles and doubles individual only, as doubles team rankings are not calculated over a rolling year-to-date system), and number of spots gained or lost from the 1999 to the 2000 year-end rankings.


2000 ATP Tour, Retirements
Following is a list of notable players (winners of a main tour title, and/or part of the ATP Rankings top 100 (singles) or top 50 (doubles) for at least one week) who announced their retirement from professional tennis, became inactive (after not playing for more than 52 weeks), or were permanently banned from playing, during the 2000 season:


2000 ATP Tour World Championships – Doubles
Sébastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien were the defending champions, but failed to qualify as a team that year, as they did not compete together in 2000. Lareau failed to qualify with another partner, while O'Brien qualified with Jared Palmer, but lost in the round robin.


2000 ATP Tour World Championships – Doubles
Donald Johnson and Piet Norval won in the final 7–6(10–8), 6–3, 6–4, against Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes.


2000 ATP Tour World Championships – Doubles, Draw, Red Group
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


2000 ATP Tour World Championships – Doubles, Draw, Gold Group
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


2000 AVC Cup Men's Club Tournament
The 2000 Asian Men’s Club Volleyball Championship was the 2nd staging of the AVC Club Championships. The tournament was held in Suphanburi, Thailand. Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance of Korea won the tournament after beating Paykan of Tehran, Iran.


2000 AVC Cup Women's Club Tournament
The 2000 AVC Cup Women's Club Tournament was the 2nd staging of the AVC Club Championships. The tournament was held in Shaoxing, China.


2000 Abierto Mexicano Pegaso
The 2000 Abierto Mexicano Pegaso was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Mexico City, Mexico that was part of the International Series Gold category of the 2000 ATP Tour. It was the seventh edition of the tournament and was held from 21 February through 27 February 2000. Unseeded Juan Ignacio Chela, who entered the main draw as a qualifier, won the singles title.


2000 Abierto Mexicano Pegaso, Finals, Doubles
Byron Black /  Donald Johnson defeated  Gastón Etlis /  Martín Rodríguez, 6–3, 7–5


2000 Abruzzo regional election
The Abruzzo regional election of 2000 took place on 16 April 2000.


2000 Abruzzo regional election
Giovanni Pace (National Alliance) was narrowly elected President, defeating incumbent Antonio Falconio (Democrats of the Left).


2000 Acura Classic
The 2000 Acura Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in San Diego in the United States. It was part of Tier II of the 2000 WTA Tour. The tournament was held from July 31 through August 6, 2000. Third-seeded Venus Williams won the singles title.


2000 Acura Classic, Finals, Doubles
Lisa Raymond /  Rennae Stubbs defeated  Lindsay Davenport /  Anna Kournikova, 4–6, 6–3, 7–6


2000 Acura Classic – Doubles
Lindsay Davenport and Corina Morariu were the defending champions, but Morariu did not compete this year. Davenport teamed up with Anna Kournikova and ended as runners-up.


2000 Acura Classic – Doubles
Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs won the title by defeating Davenport and Kournikova 4–6, 6–3, 7–6(8–6) in the final. It was the 18th title for Raymond and the 24th title for Stubbs in their respective doubles careers. It was also the 4th title for the pair during the season, after their wins in the Australian Open, Rome and Madrid.


2000 Acura Classic – Singles
Serena Williams was the defending champion, but did not compete this year.


2000 Acura Classic – Singles
Venus Williams won the title by defeating Monica Seles 6–0, 6–7(3–7), 6–3 in the final. It was the 3rd title for Williams in the season and the 12th title in her career.


2000 Acura Classic – Singles, Seeds
The first four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2000 Adidas International
The 2000 Adidas International was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the NSW Tennis Centre in Sydney in Australia that was part of the International Series of the 2000 ATP Tour and of Tier II of the 2000 WTA Tour. The tournament ran from 9 through 15 January 2000. Lleyton Hewitt and Amelie Mauresmo won the singles titles.


2000 Adidas International, Finals, Men's Doubles
Mark Woodforde /  Todd Woodbridge defeated  Lleyton Hewitt /  Sandon Stolle 7–5 6–4


2000 Adidas International, Finals, Women's Doubles
Julie Halard-Decugis /  Ai Sugiyama defeated  Martina Hingis /  Mary Pierce 6–0, 6–3


2000 Adidas International – Men's Doubles
Sébastien Lareau and Daniel Nestor were the defending champions, but Nestor did not compete this year. Lareau teamed up with Michael Hill and lost in first round to David Adams and John-Laffnie de Jager.


2000 Adidas International – Men's Doubles
Mark Woodforde and Todd Woodbridge won the title by defeating Lleyton Hewitt and Sandon Stolle 7–5, 6–4 in the final. It was the 61st title for both players in their respective careers. It was also the 2nd title for the pair during the season, after their win in Adelaide.


2000 Adidas International – Men's Singles
Todd Martin was the defending champion but lost to Ivan Ljubičić in the second round.


2000 Adidas International – Men's Singles
Lleyton Hewitt won the title, defeating Jason Stoltenberg 6–4, 6–0 in the final.


2000 Adidas International – Women's Doubles
Elena Likhovtseva and Ai Sugiyama were the defending champions, but had different outcomes. While Likhovtseva teamed up with Amanda Coetzer and lost in first round, Sugiyama teamed up with Julie Halard-Decugis and successfully defended her title by defeating Martina Hingis and Mary Pierce in the final, 6–0, 6–3.


2000 Adidas International – Women's Doubles
It was the 7th title for Halard-Decugis and the 11th title for Sugiyama in their respective doubles careers. It was also the 1st title for the pair during the season.


2000 Adidas International – Women's Singles
Lindsay Davenport was the defending champion, but lost in the final 7–6(7–2), 6–4 against Amélie Mauresmo.


2000 Adidas International – Women's Singles
It was the 1st title for Mauresmo in the season and the 2nd title in her career.


2000 Adidas International – Women's Singles, Seeds
The first four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2000 Adidas Open de Toulouse
The 2000 Adidas Open de Toulouse was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts in Toulouse, France that was part of the International Series 2 of the 2000 ATP Tour. It was the twentieth and final edition of the tournament and was held from 16 until 22 October 2000. First-seeded Àlex Corretja won the singles title.


2000 Adidas Open de Toulouse, Finals, Doubles
Julien Boutter /  Fabrice Santoro defeated  Donald Johnson /  Piet Norval, 7–6(10–8), 4–6, 7–6(7–5)


2000 Adidas Open de Toulouse – Doubles
The 2000 Adidas Open de Toulouse was a men's tennis tournament played on Indoor Hard in Toulouse, France that was part of the International Series 2 of the 2000 ATP Tour. It was the twentieth and final edition of the tournament and was held from 16 October – 22 October.


2000 Adidas Open de Toulouse – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


2000 Adidas Open de Toulouse – Singles
The 2000 Adidas Open de Toulouse was a men's tennis tournament played on Indoor Hard in Toulouse, France that was part of the International Series 2 of the 2000 ATP Tour. It was the twentieth and final edition of the tournament and was held from 16 October – 22 October.


2000 Adidas Open de Toulouse – Singles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


2000 Adur District Council election
Elections to Adur District Council were held on 4 May 2000. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. Overall turnout was 36.5%.


2000 Advanta Championships
The 2000 Advanta Championships was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Philadelphia Civic Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States that was part of Tier II of the 2000 WTA Tour. It was the 18th edition of the tournament and was held from November 6 through November 12, 2000. Second-seeded Lindsay Davenport won the singles title and earned $87,000 first-prize money.


2000 Advanta Championships, Finals, Doubles
Martina Hingis /  Anna Kournikova defeated  Lisa Raymond /  Rennae Stubbs 6–2, 7–5


2000 Advanta Championships – Doubles
Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs were the defending champions, but lost in the final to Martina Hingis and Anna Kournikova. The score was 6–2, 7–5 in the final.


2000 Advanta Championships – Singles
Lindsay Davenport was the defending champion and successfully defended her title, by defeating Martina Hingis 7–6(9–7), 6–4 in the final.


2000 Advanta Championships – Singles, Seeds
The first four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2000 Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships
The 6th Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Riesa, Germany from June 2 to June 4, 2000.


2000 Africa Cup
The 2000 Africa Cup (officially called at those time "Africa Top Six") was the first edition of highest level rugby union tournament in Africa.


2000 Africa Cup
Only five teams were involved due to the withdrawal of the Ivory Coast. South Africa participated with an Under-23 amateurs team.


2000 Africa Cup
The teams were divided in two pool played on home away basis.


2000 Africa Cup of Nations Group A
Group A of the 2000 African Cup of Nations ran from 22 January until 31 January. It consisted of Ghana, Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Togo. The matches were held in Accra and Kumasi in Ghana. Cameroon and Ghana progressed to the quarterfinals.


2000 Africa Cup of Nations Group B
Group A of the 2000 African Cup of Nations ran from 23 January until 2 February. It consisted of Gabon, South Africa, Algeria and DR Congo. The matches were held in Accra and Kumasi in Ghana. South Africa and Algeria progressed to the quarterfinals.


2000 African Championships in Athletics
The 12th African Championships in Athletics were held in Algiers, Algeria between 12 and 15 July 2000 at the Stade 5 Juillet 1962.


2000 African Cup Winners' Cup
The 2000 African Cup Winners' Cup was the twenty-sixth season of Africa's second oldest club football tournament organised by CAF.


2000 African Cup Winners' Cup
In a final featuring two giants of African club football, four time African champions Zamalek of Egypt defeated three time African champions Canon Yaoundé of Cameroon 4–3 on aggregate over two-legs.


2000 African Cup Winners' Cup, Association team allocation
A total of 38 teams from 38 CAF associations qualified for the tournament after winning their respective premier domestic cups. Of the 38 teams that qualified 1 withdrew before fulfilling all of its fixtures and another was disqualified;


2000 African Cup Winners' Cup, Format
The tournament consisted of five rounds preceding a two-legged final.


2000 African Cup Winners' Cup, Format
The away goals rule was used to determine the victors in the event of a match being tied over the two-legs. If it was not possible to determine a winner using the away goals rule, the tie went to a penalty shootout to determine the winner.


2000 African Cup Winners' Cup, Preliminary round
The first legs were played on 29 & 30 January, and the second legs were played on 12 & 14 February 2000.


2000 African Cup Winners' Cup, First round
The first legs were played from 17–19 March, and the second legs were played from 31 March-2 April 2000 with the exception of the matches between ASEC Ndiambour and ASEC Mimosas which were played on the 2nd (first leg) and 16th (second leg) of April.


2000 African Cup Winners' Cup, Second round
The first legs were played on 6 & 7 May (with the exception of the tie between JS du Ténéré & Stade Malien which was played on 14 May), and the second legs were played on 27 & 28 May 2000.


2000 African Cup Winners' Cup, Quarter-finals
The first legs were played on 5 & 6 August, and the second legs were played on 19 & 20 August 2000.


2000 African Cup Winners' Cup, Semi-finals
The first legs were played on 14 & 15 October, and the second legs were played on 27 & 30 October 2000.


2000 African Cup Winners' Cup Final
The 2000 CAF African Cup Winners' Cup Final was contested in two-legged home-and-away format between Zamalek and Canon Yaoundé, The first leg was hosted by Zamalek at Cairo Stadium in Cairo on 26 November 2000, while the second leg was hosted by Canon Yaoundé at Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo in Yaoundé on 10 December 2000.


2000 African Cup Winners' Cup Final
Zamalek won 4–3 on aggregate, earned the right to represent the CAF at the 2001 FIFA Club World Championship, as well as participate in the 2001 CAF Super Cup against Hearts of Oak; the winner of the 2000 CAF Champions League.


2000 African Cup of Nations
The 2000 African Cup of Nations was the 22nd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the association football championship of Africa (CAF). It was co-hosted by Ghana and Nigeria, who jointly replaced Zimbabwe as host. Just like in 1998, the field of sixteen teams was split into four groups of four.


2000 African Cup of Nations
Cameroon won the championship, beating Nigeria in the final 4–3 on penalties. As winners, they qualified for the 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup as African representatives.


2000 African Cup of Nations, Host Selection
It was expected that Zimbabwe will host this edition but it was sidelined by the CAF on 8 February 1999 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast for non-compliance with the specifications, the CAF announced that they would be receiving applications for the new hosts until 10 March 1999.


2000 African Cup of Nations, Host Selection
Egypt, Ghana, Morocco and Nigeria, were determined by the CAF to be compliant with the host criteria. Later, Egypt withdrew. A joint bid was formed between Ghana and Nigeria.


2000 African Cup of Nations, Host Selection
The organization of the 2000 Africa Cup of Nations was awarded jointly to Ghana and Nigeria on 15 March 1999 by the CAF Executive Committee meeting in Cairo, Egypt. Voters had a choice between three countries : Ghana, Morocco and Nigeria. This is the first time ever that the African Cup was co-hosted by two countries.


2000 African Cup of Nations, Host Selection
This is also the second time that Nigeria has hosted the African Cup after 1980 and the third time for Ghana after 1963 and 1978


2000 African Cup of Nations, First round, Group A
Group A of the 2000 AFCON remains as the only group stage that all four teams to achieve four points out of three matches.


2000 African Cup of Nations Final
The 2000 African Cup of Nations Final was a football match that took place on 13 February 2000 at the Lagos National Stadium in Lagos, Nigeria, to determine the winner of the 2000 African Cup of Nations, the football championship of Africa organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).


2000 African Cup of Nations Final
Cameroon won the title for the third time by beating Nigeria 4–3 on penalties.


2000 African Cup of Nations Final, Match details
The first goal was scored after a foul on Patrick Mboma led to a free kick that was utilized by Samuel Eto'o in the 26th minute. In the 31st minute, Mboma capitalized on a through pass from Eto'o to double the Cameroonian lead, nutmegging Nigerian goalkeeper, Ike Shorunmu in the process.


2000 African Cup of Nations Final, Match details
Cameroon continued to press for most of the first half, and hit the post on an occasion. Surprise selection, Raphael Chukwu placed a low level shot at the back of the net to reduce the deficit to one before halftime. Then Okocha scored a long range shot to even the scoreline. Eto'o attempted to put Cameroon ahead again, but had his shot hit the sidebar. Substitute, Babagida also had a finely placed shot on target saved by Cameroon, goalkeeper, Bouker. Victor Ikpeba had a long range header go off target. The game was eventually decided on penalties with Cameroon emerging victorious.


2000 African Cup of Nations qualification
This page details the process of qualifying for the 2000 African Cup of Nations.


2000 African Cup of Nations qualification, Group round
Group round took place between October 2, 1998, and June 20, 1999.


2000 African Cup of Nations qualification, Group round, Group 1
Ghana qualified as hosts as of 15 March 1999, their results where annulled. Eritrea qualified for Playoff.


2000 African Cup of Nations qualification, Group round, Group 2
Sierra Leone withdrew due to the Sierra Leone Civil War on 22 March 1999,  their result was annulled.


2000 African Cup of Nations qualification, Group round, Group 5
Nigeria qualified as hosts as of 15 March 1999, their results were annulled. Senegal qualified for Playoff.


2000 African Cup of Nations qualification, Playoff
Eritrea (runners-up of groups 1) and Senegal (runners-up of groups 5) join Zimbabwe in a playoff for one place in the final tournament.


2000 African Cup of Nations squads
Below is a list of squads used in the 2000 African Cup of Nations.


2000 African Futsal Championship
The 2000 African Futsal Championship took place in Cairo, Egypt from April 16 to April 21, 2000. The tournament served as a qualifying tournament for the 2000 FIFA Futsal World Cup in Guatemala.


2000 African Judo Championships
The 2000 African Judo Championships were the 22nd edition of the African Judo Championships, organised by the African Judo Union and were held in Algiers, Algeria 9–12 May 2000.


2000 African Men's Handball Championship
The 2000 African Men's Handball Championship was the 14th edition of the African Men's Handball Championship, held in Algiers, Algeria, from 22 April to 1 May 2000. It acted as the African qualifying tournament for the 2001 World Championship in France.


2000 African Men's Handball Championship
Egypt finished first in the round robin tournament and wins its third African title. Algeria finished second and Tunisia third.


2000 African Women's Championship
The 2000 African Women's Championship  was the fourth edition of the African Women's Championship (now known as the Africa Women Cup of Nations), the biennial international football championship organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for the women's national teams of Africa. It was held in South Africa between 11 November and 25 November 2000.


2000 African Women's Championship
Nigeria won the tournament for the fourth time, beating South Africa in the final 2–0, which was abandoned at the 73rd minute.


2000 African Women's Championship, Qualification
South Africa as hosts and Nigeria as title holders were qualified automatically, while the remaining six spots were determined by the qualifying rounds, which took place from June to August 2000.


2000 African Women's Championship, Qualification, Format
Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the away goals rule would be applied, and if still level, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (no extra time would be played).


2000 African Women's Championship, Qualification, Format
The six winners of the final round qualified for the final tournament.


2000 African Women's Championship, Qualification, Format, Preliminary round
Réunion won by default and qualified for the final round.


2000 African Women's Championship, Qualification, Format, Final round
Réunion won 5–4 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.


2000 African Women's Championship, Qualification, Format, Final round
Cameroon won by default and qualified for the final tournament.


2000 African Women's Championship, Qualification, Format, Final round
Morocco won 6–1 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.


2000 African Women's Championship, Qualification, Format, Final round
Zimbabwe won 8–0 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.


2000 African Women's Championship, Qualification, Format, Final round
Ghana won by default and qualified for the final tournament.


2000 African Women's Championship, Qualification, Format, Final round
Uganda won by default and qualified for the final tournament.


2000 African Women's Championship, Qualification, Qualified teams
Réunion, Uganda and Zimbabwe made their first appearances in the tournament. Zimbabwe originally entered the 1991 edition, but withdrew before playing any match.


2000 African Women's Championship, Final tournament, Format
The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals.


2000 African Women's Championship, Final tournament, Format
The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss).


2000 African Women's Championship, Final tournament, Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time is played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by kicks from the penalty mark to determine the winner, except for the third place match where no extra time is played.


2000 African Women's Handball Championship
The 2000 African Women's Handball Championship was the 14th edition of the African Women's Handball Championship, held in Algeria from 23 April to 1 May 2000. It acted as the African qualifying tournament for the 2001 World Women's Handball Championship.


2000 Air Canada Cup
The 2000 Air Canada Cup was Canada's 22nd annual national midget 'AAA' hockey championship, played April 24–30, 2000 at the Maurice Richard Arena in Montreal, Quebec. The championship game was an all-Quebec showdown as the Quebec champions Cantonniers de Magog shutout the host Collége Français de Montréal-Bourassa 6-0 in the gold medal game to win the national championship.


2000 Air Canada Cup
Future National Hockey League players competing in this tournament were Joffrey Lupul and Ryane Clowe.


2000 Air Force Falcons football team
The 2000 Air Force Falcons football team represented the United States Air Force Academy in the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was a member of the Mountain West Conference. The Falcons were coached by Fisher DeBerry and played their home games at Falcon Stadium. They finished the season 9–3, 5–2 in Mountain West play to finish in second place. They were invited to the Silicon Valley Football Classic where they defeated Fresno State.


2000 Akron Zips football team
The 2000 Akron Zips football team represented Akron University in the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season; they competed in the Mid-American Conference. They were led by sixth–year head coach Lee Owens. The Zips played their home games at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio. They outscored their opponents 333–295 and finished with a record of 6 wins and 5 losses (6–5).


2000 Alabama Amendment 2
2000 Alabama Amendment 2, also known as the Alabama Interracial Marriage Amendment, was a proposed amendment to the Alabama Constitution to remove Alabama's ban on interracial marriage. Interracial marriage had already been legalized nationwide 33 years prior in 1967, following Loving v. Virginia. The amendment was approved with around 60% of the vote, though 25 of Alabama's 67 counties voted against it.


2000 Alabama Amendment 2, Contents
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to abolish the prohibition of interracial marriages. (Proposed by Act No. 1999-321)


2000 Alabama Amendment 2, Results
The amendment was approved, with about 60% of the vote. Numerous counties with high white populations voted against the amendment, while counties with high black populations voted for it.


2000 Alabama Amendment 2, Aftermath
Alabama's miscegenation ban was compared to its gay marriage ban, especially after it was also ruled unconstitutional in Obergefell v. Hodges. Alabama's gay marriage ban was approved in 2006 with 80% of the vote, passing in every county.


2000 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
The 2000 Alabama Crimson Tide football team represented the University of Alabama in the 2000 college football season. The team was led by head coach Mike DuBose, who was coaching his final season at the program. The team finished 6th in the SEC Western Division. The Crimson Tide, also known informally as the Tide, played their home games at Bryant–Denny Stadium, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Legion Field, in Birmingham, Alabama.


2000 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
The team entered the season trying to build upon a 10–3 record from their 1999 season, which included a 34–7 victory in the SEC Championship over the Florida Gators. The 2000 team would not have the same success. Despite a preseason #3 ranking they eventually finished with a 3–8 record (3–5 in the SEC). The 2000 season was filled with several close losses. A 30–28 loss at LSU was the Tide's first loss to LSU in Baton Rouge in 31 years, ending a 14–0–1 streak Alabama had posted there since 1969. A 9–0 defeat at the hands of in-state rival Auburn came on a cold and rainy afternoon and marked the first Iron Bowl played in Tuscaloosa since 1901.


2000 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
For the first time since the 1956 season Alabama failed to win any out-of-conference games and became the first team from an AQ conference to lose to Central Florida, falling 38–40 at home on a last-second field goal. On November 1, Athletic Director Mal Moore announced that Mike DuBose would resign at the end of the season after one of the program's worst seasons.


2000 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, UCLA
The Preseason hype at Alabama was through the roof as the reigning SEC Champions came into a match up against UCLA ranked third in the country. Despite that, Alabama was physically dominated by UCLA offense as they pulled off the upset.


2000 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt
Alabama would use an eighteen-point 4th quarter to pull away and beat Vanderbilt for the 16th straight time. This would be the last conference game Alabama would play at Legion Field.


2000 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss
Alabama would be shut out for the first time since 1997 as Southern Miss used a pick six and a scoop and score to beat Alabama at Legion Field for the first time since 1990. After the game, Mike Dubose offered his resignation to Mal Moore but, was rejected by Moore.


2000 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Arkansas
Despite having the lead for the majority of the second half, Arkansas 13-play, 80-yard drive, capped off by a 9-yard touchdown pass from Robby Hamilton to Marcellus Poydras with 1:04 to go, gave Arkansas the lead and the eventual win.


2000 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, South Carolina
Milos Lewis had two critical 4th quarter interceptions that allowed Alabama to hold on the beat #23 South Carolina. The win kept Alabama's perfect record against South Carolina all time (10–0).


2000 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss
Alabama's 45 points are the most of any team in a game under Mike Dubose and the most for any Alabama team since 1993 in a rout of Ole Miss.


2000 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Tennessee
For the 6th year in a row, Tennessee found a way to beat Alabama extending their longest win streak against the Crimson Tide. This match up was the first time both teams came into the game not ranked since 1988.


2000 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, UCF
Alabama could not overcome 5 turnovers as a Javier Beorlegui 37 yard field goal gave UCF the upset win on Homecoming for Alabama. This was the 2nd time under Mike Dubose that Alabama had lost its Homecoming game. On the Wednesday following the game, Mike Dubose was informed that he would not return as head coach in 2001. Coach Dubose was allowed to remain as head coach until the end of the season.


2000 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, LSU
For the first time since 1969, Alabama lost at Tiger Stadium behind 16 fourth quarter points from LSU after Alabama had taken the lead at the beginning of the 4th quarter. Alabama scored with seven seconds left to cut the lead to two but, failed to recover the onside kick. This lost guaranteed Alabama second losing season under Mike Dubose and third since 1957.


2000 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State
Alabama gave up a season high 538 total yards of total offense as Mississippi State beat Alabama for the third straight time in Starkville.


2000 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn
For the first time since 1901, the Iron Bowl would be played in Tuscaloosa and the first time ever at Bryant Denny Stadium. However, freezing rain, sleet, and Damon Duval's three field goals would spoil the return as Auburn would shut out Alabama for the first time since 1987. This would be the last game for Mike Dubose as head coach and would be the last time to date Alabama has been shut out. This along with the Southern Miss shut out earlier in the season, would be the first time Alabama has been shut out more than once in a season since 1957.


2000 Alamo Bowl
The 2000 Alamo Bowl featured the Northwestern Wildcats, and the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Despite both teams being ranked, it was the biggest blowout in the game's history. Nebraska broke an NCAA bowl record by scoring 66 points, and the Huskers also set ten other Alamo Bowl records, including those for most yards of total offense (636) most rushing yards (476), most first downs (28), and most yards per play (7.7).


2000 Alamo Bowl
Nebraska scored first, following a 15-yard touchdown run by Dan Alexander as Nebraska seized a 7–0 lead. Northwestern got on the board with a 44-yard field goal from Tim Long, to trim the lead to 7–3. Northwestern's defense stopped Nebraska and got the ball back. Quarterback Zak Kustok hit Teddy Johnson for a 10-yard touchdown, and Northwestern got a 10–7 lead.


2000 Alamo Bowl
On the first play after the kickoff, quarterback Eric Crouch used Nebraska's option attack, and ran 50 yards for a touchdown, and Nebraska took a 14–10 lead, one they never relinquished. Two minutes later, Dan Alexander rushed two yards for a touchdown, increasing the lead to 21–10. Correll Buckhalter scored four minutes later on a 2-yard touchdown run, as Nebraska's lead became 28–10.


2000 Alamo Bowl
Kicker Josh Brown kicked a 51-yard field goal with 1:28 left in the half to increase Nebraska's lead to 31–10. Northwestern's Damien Anderson scored on a 65-yard touchdown run with 1:10 left to make it 31–17. Nebraska came right back, capping a 31-point quarter, with a 58-yard screen pass from Eric Crouch to wide receiver Bobby Newcombe stretching their lead to 38–17.


2000 Alamo Bowl
In the third quarter, Crouch hit wide receiver Matt Davison for an 11-yard touchdown pass, increasing the lead to 45–17. Crouch later rushed two yards for a touchdown, and the lead became 52–17. Bobby Newcombe later then threw a 69-yard touchdown pass to Matt Davison, making the lead 59–17. Early in the fourth quarter, Dahrran Diedrick rushed 9 yards for a touchdown, making the final margin 66–17.


2000 Alamo Bowl
The Huskers record for points stood until the 2011 Alamo Bowl, when Baylor defeated Washington, 67–56.


2000 Alaska Milkmen season
The 2000 Alaska Milkmen season was the 15th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


2000 Alaska Milkmen season, Championship
The Alaska Milkmen won the All-Filipino Cup title with a 4-1 series win over the Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs. This was the third All-Filipino crown for Alaska in the last five seasons and winning every two years, first in 1996 and then in 1998.


2000 Albanian Supercup
Albanian Supercup 2000 is the seventh edition of the Albanian Supercup since its establishment in 1989. The match was contested between the Albanian Cup 2000 winners KS Teuta and the 1999–2000 Albanian Superliga champions KF Tirana.


2000 Albanian local elections
The Albanian local elections in 2000 were the third local elections held in Albania. The elections were held on 1 October 2000.


2000 Alfred Dunhill Cup
The 2000 Alfred Dunhill Cup was the 16th and final Alfred Dunhill Cup. It was a team tournament featuring 16 countries, each represented by three players. The Cup was played 12–15 October at the Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland. The sponsor was the Alfred Dunhill company. The Spanish team of Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Miguel Ángel Martín, and José María Olazábal beat the South African team of Ernie Els, David Frost, and Retief Goosen in the final. It was the second win for Spain. The tournament was replaced by the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in 2001, an official European Tour event.


2000 Alfred Dunhill Cup, Format
The Cup was a match play event played over four days. The teams were divided into four four-team groups. The top eight teams were seeded with the remaining teams randomly placed in the bracket. After three rounds of round-robin play, the top team in each group advanced to a single elimination playoff.


2000 Alfred Dunhill Cup, Format
In each team match, the three players were paired with their opponents and played 18 holes at medal match play. Matches tied at the end of 18 holes were extended to a sudden-death playoff, unless they could not affect the outcome of the tournament (semi-finals). The tie-breaker within a group was based on match record, then head-to-head.


2000 Algarve Cup
The 2000 Algarve Cup was the seventh edition of the Algarve Cup, an invitational women's association football tournament. It took place between 12 and 18 March 2000 in Portugal with United States winning the event defeating Norway, 1-0, in the final-game. China ended up third defeating Sweden, 1-0, in the third prize game.


2000 Algarve Cup, Format
The eight teams were split into two groups that played a round-robin group stage. On completion of this, the fourthplaced teams from each group would playoff to determine seventh and eighth place, the third placed teams from each group would play each other to decide fifth and sixth place, the second placed teams in each group would play to determine third and fourth place and the winners of the groups would compete for first and second place.


2000 Algarve Cup, Format
Points awarded in the group stage are three points for a win, one point for a draw and none for a loss.


2000 All England Open Badminton Championships
The 2000 Yonex All England Open was the 90th edition of the All England Open Badminton Championships. It was held from 7 to 12 March 2000, in Birmingham, England.


2000 All England Open Badminton Championships
It was a four star tournament and the prize money was US$125,000.


2000 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
The 2000 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the eighth season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing. It was marked as well as the eighteenth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The GT500 class champion of 2000 was the #16 Castrol Mugen Honda NSX team driven by Ryo Michigami and the GT300 class champion was the #26 Advan Team Taisan Jr Porsche 996 driven by Hideo Fukuyama.


2000 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
This season marked the first of several instances where the series champion had not won a single race throughout the season, with Michigami scoring four second places as the season champion's best finish. This phenomenon would occur again in 2001 (in GT500 only) and 2003 (in both GT500 and GT300), resulting in changes to success ballast rules in 2009 to discourage sandbagging.


2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus
The 2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus was an incident in the Japanese All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) professional wrestling promotion that took place throughout May and June 2000, and culminated in 24 of the 26 contracted native wrestlers leaving the promotion. Led by Mitsuharu Misawa, they later formed their own promotion, Pro Wrestling Noah.


2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus, Background, History
All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) was founded in 1972 by Shohei "Giant" Baba, Mitsuo Momota and Yoshihiro Momota, a student and the two sons of Rikidōzan, the godfather of Japanese professional wrestling, or Puroresu. Baba served as the promotion's president, head booker, talent scout and head trainer for much of his lifetime. Under Baba, the promotion enjoyed much success, and reached new heights in the 1990s thanks mostly to the performances of Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada, Kenta Kobashi and Akira Taue, dubbed "The Four Pillars Of Heaven" by magazines and reporters. Baba continued to run the promotion until late 1998 when his health deteriorated and he was hospitalized in January 1999.


2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus, Background, Build-up
Baba died from liver failure (a complication of colon cancer) on January 31, 1999, at the age of 61. In the wake of his death, widow and majority shareholder Motoko Baba intended for Mitsuo Momota to inherit the presidential position, but board member Jumbo Tsuruta used his influence to help Misawa inherit the position, before Tsuruta himself was forced out of the company (with no severance package). Misawa was trained for the position during the following months, and was officially announced as AJPW president during a press conference on May 7.


2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus, Background, Build-up
Disagreements with Motoko Baba arose even before the transition was made public, as reports of a "quiet" power struggle saw print in March 1999, and Tsuruta confirmed these when he left Japan for Portland, Oregon. In fact, the two had had professional tensions long beforehand.


2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus, Background, Build-up
Motoko had opposed the decision to push Misawa in the wake of Genichiro Tenryu's departure in 1990, and the two began conflicting as early as 1996; in the year before Shohei Baba's death, Misawa even asked him on behalf of the locker room to have his wife leave the company, and was somewhat successful in that she ceased to have any creative influence when Misawa began booking. Misawa attempted to keep Baba content by maintaining the same salary that she had been paid when her husband was alive (approximately $500,000), but this did not change the power dynamic.


2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus, Background, Build-up
Misawa's wish to change the AJPW product, and to modernize its presentation, to address their box office troubles ran in direct opposition to Baba's intent to maintain her late husband's booking philosophy. Misawa was particularly intent on pushing the company's younger talent, and in September 1999 he and Baba had a major fight over a match between Jun Akiyama and Takao Omori being the main event of a Budokan show (which sold out), although this match's placement had been decided by a fan ballot.


2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus, Background, Build-up
Motoko's conservatism was partially due to her belief that the company, and Japanese wrestling as a whole, had fallen from its peak. Misawa was also angry with Motoko over fiscal matters, as he had discovered that much of the company's merchandise sales did not produce funds for AJPW, but for a subsidiary that she had set up. At some point, Misawa approached Nippon TV with his plans to leave AJPW to start a new promotion, and told them that nearly everyone in the locker room would follow him.


2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus, Background, Build-up
NTV officials told Misawa that they supported him, but that they needed to keep their agreement quiet for the time being as, due to the proximity of Baba's death, the station wanted to wait until enough time had passed to drop All Japan's television program, which had been associated closely with NTV since its formation. Nevertheless, rumors that NTV had taken Misawa's side in his dispute against Baba saw print in February 2000, and Weekly Fight Magazine reported that AJPW would split into two groups in May, though Misawa declined to comment on this.


2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus, Background, Build-up
Adding to the situation was that, as of the end of the fiscal year on March 31, 2000, all the promotion's talent were working as free agents, since Misawa was not authorized to give the raises he intended to award all native workers; Misawa had also wanted to modernize their contracts, providing wrestlers with full medical coverage, full injury pay, and possibly stock options (which NJPW's contracts offered). As the result of these disagreements, the AJPW executive board voted to remove Misawa from the presidential position on May 28.


2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus, Background, Build-up
All parties agreed to keep this news private until the end of the current tour, and Misawa attempted to persuade Baba to give him her public blessings to start a new company, so as to smooth the public transition and preserve the legacies of Giant Baba and the recently deceased Tsuruta. Baba refused this proposal or relinquishment of any of her majority share, and Tokyo Sports broke the news on June 12. At an emergency board meeting held in response on June 13, co-vice president Mitsuo Momota and fellow boardsmen Kobashi, Taue, Kenichi Oyagi, and Yoshihiro Momota collectively resigned from their positions.


2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus, Incident
On June 16, 2000, a press conference was led by Mitsuharu Misawa, where 24 of the 26 native wrestlers contracted to All Japan Pro Wrestling joined him. With over 100 reporters and news outlets in attendance, Misawa announced that everyone surrounding him would be leaving All Japan Pro Wrestling after finishing their last committed appearances in July, and that they would be forming a new  promotion together. A day later, Misawa announced the promotion's name: Pro Wrestling Noah.


2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus, Incident
On June 19, 2000, it was confirmed at a press conference in the All Japan dojo held by Toshiaki Kawada and Masanobu Fuchi that NTV had agreed to discontinue broadcasting All Japan Pro Wrestling after 27 years with the network. NTV also announced that they would carry weekly tapings of Misawa's new Noah promotion, with the title of the program being called "Colosseo", in the place of All Japan's former 30-minute timeslot on Sundays at midnight. On June 20, Misawa met with Nippon TV officials, who had cancelled All Japan's television program, and secured a time slot for NOAH programming.


2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus, Incident
On July 2 at Korakuen Hall, Motoko Baba came out to the ring and announced the unfathomable return of Genichiro Tenryu to All Japan. This was previously unfathomable as Giant Baba had sworn to banish him from ever competing in the promotion again after Tenryu led his own exodus from AJPW in 1990 to form the Super World of Sports (SWS) promotion. Baba announced he would team with Toshiaki Kawada to face Maunakea Mossman and Stan Hansen on July 23 on the final show of the Super Action Series Tour in Nippon Budokan.


2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus, Incident
On July 20, 2000, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Takeshi Morishima, Naomichi Marufuji, Kentaro Shiga, Takeshi Rikio, Mitsuo Momota, Rusher Kimura, Haruka Eigen, Tsuyoshi Kikuchi, Kenta Kobayashi, Takao Omori, Yoshihiro Takayama, Jun Izumida, Masao Inoue, Yoshinari Ogawa, Akira Taue, Jun Akiyama and Mitsuharu Misawa competed in their last matches for All Japan Pro Wrestling at the sold-out Hakata Star Lane in Fukuoka. During the show, "Dr. Death" Steve Williams came out and shook Misawa's hand, and requested one last singles match between the two.


2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus, Incident
However, Misawa returned to the bus immediately after his match, not staying for the last two matches of the show and the match never happened. Every single one of All Japan's titles were vacated due to the departure of the aforementioned wrestlers and title holders. Mrs. Baba later appointed Stan Hansen as the new Chairman of All Japan's Pacific Wrestling Federation title governing body, replacing Lord James Blears.


2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus, Aftermath
Although a mass exodus in Japanese pro wrestling was not unheard of, an exodus of this size was unprecedented at the time, rivalled only by Tenryu's exodus to form SWS in 1990. The event caused a shockwave throughout Japanese sports tabloids, and newfound attention was bought to Misawa and his new promotion. The two promotions would eventually begin working together in 2004, with Keiji Mutoh and Taiyo Kea facing Misawa and Yoshinari Ogawa at Departure 2004 in the Tokyo Dome, and Misawa returning to All Japan twice in 2004.


2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus, Aftermath, All Japan Pro Wrestling
After the new Noah roster wrestled their last matches for the promotion, All Japan began the process of rebuilding itself, relying on freelance talent and cross promotional matches to fill its cards. On August 11, 2000, Masanobu Fuchi appeared at the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) show in Ryogoku Kokugikan. Standing in a New Japan ring for the first time in his career, Fuchi announced his intention to "break down the walls" between All Japan and New Japan, and he was soon joined in the ring by NJPW foreman Riki Choshu.


2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus, Aftermath, All Japan Pro Wrestling
The two exchanged a handshake in the ring, and thus a cross promotional relationship began between All Japan Pro Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling. The first major cross promotional matches between NJPW and AJPW took place on October 9, 2000 at NJPW Do Judge!! in the Tokyo Dome. Fuchi, Dr. Death Steve Williams and Toshiaki Kawada all represented AJPW on the card, with Kawada shockingly defeating IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kensuke Sasaki in a non-title match in the main event.


2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus, Aftermath, All Japan Pro Wrestling
This led to Sasaki, in kayfabe, becoming so disgusted with himself for losing to an outsider that he vacated the championship. The two promotions continued to work together, with Fuchi and Kawada regularly appearing in NJPW throughout late 2000. All Japan returned to the Tokyo Dome for the first time since the exodus on January 28, 2001, with appearances from Keiji Mutoh and Jushin Thunder Liger, as well as a main event featuring Kensuke Sasaki teaming up with Toshiaki Kawada to defeat Genichiro Tenryu and Hiroshi Hase.


2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus, Aftermath, Pro Wrestling Noah
Pro Wrestling Noah debuted on August 5, 2000 in Differ Ariake, main evented by a 2 out of 3 falls match putting Kenta Kobashi and Jun Akiyama against Mitsuharu Misawa and Akira Taue, won by Akiyama and Kobashi. Misawa later established the promotion's championships as the Global Honored Crown, and a tournament was held for the GHC Heavyweight Championship in 2001, where Misawa defeated Yoshihiro Takayama in the final to become the inaugural champion. Interest in the fledgling promotion was high, and Misawa used this to push younger talent over himself, with Jun Akiyama winning the title in July 2001.


2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling mass exodus, Aftermath, Pro Wrestling Noah
Despite the positive reception to Akiyama's reign, head booker Misawa grew anxious that a lack of legitimate title contenders would damage both the title and Akiyama's reputation early in the promotion's life, and in April 2002 Akiyama dropped the championship to Yoshinari Ogawa as a stepping stone to get the championship back to Misawa.


2000 All Thailand Golf Tour
The 2000 All Thailand Golf Tour is the second season of the All Thailand Golf Tour, the main professional golf tour in Thailand since it was established in 1999.


2000 All-Big 12 Conference football team
The 2000 All-Big 12 Conference football team consists of American football players chosen as All-Big 12 Conference players for the 2000 Big 12 Conference football season. The conference recognizes two official All-Big 12 selectors: (1) the Big 12 conference coaches selected separate offensive and defensive units and named first- and second-team players (the "Coaches" team); and (2) a panel of sports writers and broadcasters covering the Big 12 also selected offensive and defensive units and named first- and second-team players (the "Media" team).


2000 All-Big 12 Conference football team, Key
Bold = selected as a first-team player by both the coaches and media panel


2000 All-Big Ten Conference football team
The 2000 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players chosen as All-Big Ten Conference players for the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. The conference recognizes two official All-Big Ten selectors: (1) the Big Ten conference coaches selected separate offensive and defensive units and named first- and second-team players (the "Coaches" team); and (2) a panel of sports writers and broadcasters covering the Big Ten also selected offensive and defensive units and named first- and second-team players (the "Media" team).


2000 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key
Bold = selected as a first-team player by both the coaches and media panel


2000 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship
The 2000 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 17th staging of the All-Ireland hurling championship. The championship ended on 23 September 2000.


2000 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship
Galway were the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Tipperary in the final who won the title by 2-17 to 1-10.


2000 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
The 2000 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship was the 69th staging of the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament for boys under the age of 18.


2000 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
Down entered the championship as defending champions, however, they were defeated in the Ulster Championship.


2000 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
On 24 September 2000, Cork won the championship following a 2-12 to 0-13 defeat of Mayo in the All-Ireland final. This was their 10th All-Ireland title overall and their first title in seven championship seasons.


2000 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship
The 2000 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship was the 70th staging of the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1928. The championship began on 22 April 2000 and ended on 10 September 2000.


2000 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship
On 10 September 2000, Galway won the championship following a 2-19 to 4-10 defeat of Cork in the All-Ireland final. This was their fifth All-Ireland title overall and their second title in-a-row.


2000 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship
Offaly's Brian Carroll was the championship's top scorer with 2-39.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship
The 2000 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship—known as the Foras na Gaeilge (formerly Bórd na Gaeilge) All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons—was the high point of the 2000 season. The championship was won by Tipperary who achieved a second successive title beating Cork by a five-point margin in the final. The attendance was 12,880, second highest in the history of the sport of camogie at that time.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Birth of a rivalry
This and subsequent finals between the two counties was a high point in a period of rapid growth in the popularity of the sport of camogie which quadrupled the average attendance at its finals in a ten-year period. “It was unquestionably a day on which the profile of the game soared and many players produced moments of individual brilliance.,” Pat Roche wrote in the Irish Times.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Early rounds
Cork beat Kilkenny by 2-10 to 1-12 in the quarter-finals, Tipperary beat Clare 4-15 to 0-5, Galway beat Limerick 4-13 to 1-8  and Wexford beat Dublin 4-12 to 0-6. Cork easily defeated Wexford keeping them scoreless until just before the half-time whistle, in the semi-final. A goal by Noelle Kennedy proved to be the turning point of the second semi-final in which Tipperary beat Galway 2-11 to 1-8.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Final
Unusually Tipperary were favourites for the final. By the 17th minute they led by 2-4 to 0-2. Deirdre Hughes was quickly on to a sideline cut by Emily Hayden before netting off a post for the opening goal after four minutes. Within two minutes she palmed the ball to the Cork net to finish off an astute centre from the 14-year-old Claire Grogan. Cork's goal in reply came too late from Una O'Donoghue.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final
The 2000 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final was the 69th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 2000 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, an inter-county camogie tournament for the top teams in Ireland.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final
The match was of a very high quality and Tipperary won by 5.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
The 2000 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship final was a hurling match played at Croke Park on 17 March 2000 to determine the winners of the 1999–00 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, the 30th season of the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champion clubs of the four provinces of Ireland. The final was contested by Athenry of Galway and St. Joseph's Doora-Barefield of Clare, with Athenry winning by 0-16 to 0-12.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
The All-Ireland final was the second championship meeting between Athenry and St. Joseph's Doora-Barefield. It remains their last clash in the All-Ireland series. Both sides were hoping to win their second All-Ireland title.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
St. Joseph's surged into an early four-point lead, however, there was little excitement in what was, up to then, a lack-lustre, mistake-ridden battle that was being decided by the free-taking prowess of Seánie McMahon and Eugene Cloonan. Athenry captain Joe Rabbitte scored their first point from play and kick-started their resurgence. With 10 minutes left to the break, they scored four unanswered points to draw level at 0-9 apiece. An off-the-ball incident involving Greg Baker and Kenneth Kennedy after 25 minutes also noticeably upped the ante and Ollie Baker was lucky to escape with a yellow card from referee Michael Wadding for a retaliatory swing which caught the linesman's attention.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
Within 12 minutes of the second half, Athenry had taken a three-point lead. Cloonan finally beat Donal Cahill to score a point from play, while Donal Moran scored an excellent point after being set up by wing-back Brian Higgins. Andrew Whelan pulled the deficit back to two points for St. Joseph's after 44 minutes. The tide then visibly swung towards Athenry when Rabbitte flicked a ball to David Donoghue who shortened his grip before sending over a point from an almost impossible angle. With six minutes left, the Claremen still trailed by only two points.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
Athenry went three points clear again following a great score from Cloonan. Pat Higgins burst down the left wing, hand-passed off to Cloonan before he kicked over a point. With two minutes left, they got another break when Higgins won a contentious penalty when many thought he was fouled outside the area, if fouled at all. Cloonan opted for a point to put four between the sides. Jamesie O'Connor replied with a free within a minute, but Cloonan's next point, his ninth of the game, put the result beyond doubt.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
Athenry's victory secured their second All-Ireland title. They joined a selection of teams in joint third position on the all-time roll of honour.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
Due to the identical nature of the colour of their jerseys a change was necessary. Athenry wore a modified white strip of Connacht while St. Joseph's Doora-Barefield wore the blue of Munster.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The 2000 Bank of Ireland All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 114th edition of the GAA's premier Gaelic football competition. The championship began on 7 May 2000 and ended on 7 October 2000.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Meath entered the championship as the defending champions; however, they were beaten by Offaly in the Leinster quarter-final.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
On 24 September 2000, the All-Ireland final between Kerry and Galway ended in a draw, 0-14 apiece. Kerry won the replay two weeks later by 0–17 to 1-10, thus claiming their 32nd All-Ireland title.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
This was the final year that the provincial knockout format was used, before the qualifier system was introduced in 2001.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Format
The Ulster, Munster and Connacht championships were conducted as straight knock-out competitions. In the Leinster championship, seven teams received byes to the quarter-finals, while the other four — Wicklow, Wexford, Longford and Carlow — played a round-robin to determine the 8th team to play in the Leinster quarter-finals. The winners of each provincial competition went on to play in the All Ireland semi-finals.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
The 2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 113th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Kerry defeated Galway after a replay. There was controversy over the decision to hold the replay on a Saturday, instead of the usual Sunday. Since then games on days other than Sundays have become commonplace. Kerry ultimately triumphed over Galway by a scoreline of 0–17 to 1–10.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match 1, Summary
The men from the Kingdom took on the Tribesmen on Sunday (24 September 2000) in Croke Park, Dublin in the battle for the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship title. The last time the two teams met in Croke Park in an All-Ireland Final was in 1965 -That game was won by Galway. However, this time the game ended in a draw. Galway trailed for most of the game and it wasn’t until three minutes from the end that they levelled the game after working tirelessly throughout to reduce the deficit.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match 1, Summary
They could have been out of it altogether as at one stage they trailed a rampant Kerry team by seven points in the first half. They persevered though and in the end were rewarded with a draw. They could have easily won it but for three chances in the end, all fell gratefully into the hands of Kerry goalkeeper, Declan O'Keeffe. For Kerry, it was a Jekyll & Hyde performance, a rampant show in the first half to sheer relief in the end. The final score was 0–14 points each. It was the first time since the 1992 All-Ireland Final that both sides failed to score a goal.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match 1, Summary
Pádraic Joyce brought the sides level with four minutes remaining.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match 1, Details
Team: Declan O'Keeffe (GK) Mike Hassett Seamus Moynihan (Capt.) Michael McCarthy Tomás Ó Sé Éamonn Fitzmaurice Tom O'Sullivan Darragh Ó Sé Donal Daly Aodán Mac Gearailt Dara Ó Cinnéide Noel Kennelly Mike Frank Russell Liam Hassett John Crowley


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match 1, Details
Substitutes: Peter O'Leary (GK) Maurice Fitzgerald Denis O'Dwyer Killian Burns Tommy Griffin Enda Galvin Mossie Lyons Kenneth Dillon Stephen O'Sullivan


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match 1, Details
Match rules:70 minutes. Replay if scores still level. Maximum of 3 substitutions.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match 1, Details
Team: Martin McNamara (GK) Tomás Meehan Gary Fahey Ray Silke Declan Meehan John Divilly Seán Óg De Paor Seán Ó Dómhnaill Joe Bergin Paul Clancy Tommy Joyce Michael Donnellan Derek Savage Pádraic Joyce (Capt.) Niall Finnegan


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match 1, Details
Substitutes: Pádraig Lally (GK) Richie Fahey Jason Killeen Kevin Walsh Micheál Ó Callaráin Shay Walsh John Donnellan Kieran Comer Lorcán Ó Callaráin


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match 2, Summary
The replay of the 2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Final took place in Croke Park on Saturday, 7 October at 4:00pm. It was the first time since 1996 that the decider went to a replay. It wasn't the disjointed game of the 24th, that was replayed on the hallowed turf of Croke Park amidst the chants and jeers of the 64,000 strong crowd, rather a close, man-marked, point-for-point contest, that the pundits had predicted preceding the first game. The first half was a paradox of brilliant football and wide shooting.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match 2, Summary
Declan Meehan broke through Kerry's defense, in the 6th minute, to score one of the best goals of the championship. Galway's one point lead boded ominous for Kerry but they rallied and began to pick their points amidst a shower of wides. The most definitive injury of the half was that of Kevin Walsh who had to be replaced by Joe Bergin.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match 2, Summary
The occasion once again got to young Bergin as he didn't exert a major influence in the middle of the field and this led to Kerry's domination of this area especially after Maurice Fitzgerald replaced Noel Kennelly in the 27th minute and played as a third midfielder. As the team broke for half-time the score was 0–09 to 1–04 in favour of Kerry. A light drizzle fell in the second half. Fitzgerald settled into his position with the professional role familiar to all from the 97 season.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match 2, Summary
Kevin Walsh was re-introduced for mid-fielder Sean O'Domhnaill to combat Fitzgearld's influence but he never played as dominant a part in the game as he had prior to his earlier injury and indeed the drawn game. The deteriorating pitch surface took its toll as players began to slip and slide along the Cusack sideline but with minutes left to play Kerry had opened their lead to 4 points and it stayed that way at the end.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match 2, Summary
Aodán Mac Gearailt fisted the insurance point over the bar in the 2000 replay.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match 2, Details
Team: Declan O'Keeffe (GK) Mike Hassett Seamus Moynihan (Capt.) Michael McCarthy Tomás Ó Sé Éamonn Fitzmaurice Tom O'Sullivan Darragh Ó Sé Donal Daly Aodán Mac Gearailt Dara Ó Cinnéide Noel Kennelly Mike Frank Russell Liam Hassett John Crowley


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match 2, Details
Substitutes: Peter O'Leary (GK) Maurice Fitzgerald Denis O'Dwyer Killian Burns Tommy Griffin Enda Galvin Mossie Lyons Kenneth Dillon Stephen O'Sullivan


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match 2, Details
Match rules:70 minutes. Extra time if scores still level. Maximum of 3 substitutions.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match 2, Details
Team: Martin McNamara (GK) Tomás Meehan Gary Fahey Richie Fahey Declan Meehan John Divilly Seán Óg De Paor Kevin Walsh Seán Ó Dómhnaill Tommy Joyce Pádraic Joyce (Capt.) Michael Donnellan Derek Savage Paul Clancy Niall Finnegan


2000 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match 2, Details
Substitutes: Padraig Lally (GK) Ray Silke Jason Killeen Joe Bergin Micheál Ó Callaráin Shay Walsh John Donnellan Kieran Comer Lorcán Ó Callaráin


2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
The 2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (also known as the Guinness Hurling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the 114th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county hurling tournament. The draw for the 2000 fixtures took place on 14 November 1999. The championship began on 6 May 2000 and ended on 10 September 2000.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
Cork were the defending champions but were defeated by Offaly in the All-Ireland semi-final. Carlow, New York and Westmeath fielded teams after long absences.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
On 10 September 2000, Kilkenny won the championship following a 5-15 to 1-14 defeat of Offaly in the All-Ireland final. This was their 26th All-Ireland title, their first in seven championship seasons. It was the third All-Ireland final to feature teams from the same province.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
Offaly's Johnny Dooley was the championship's top scorer with 0-41. Kilkenny's D. J. Carey was the unanimous choice for Hurler of the Year.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, New provincial formats
Following a motion from the Westmeath County Board at Congress, the Leinster Council proposed the introduction of a "back door system" in their hurling championship. This would be introduced to help develop hurling in the "weaker" counties and to ensure at least two championship games for these teams. While the motion was passed at Congress in April, the new format was rejected by the GAA's management committee at a meeting on 30 October 1999. The committee disagreed with the prospect of allowing losers from earlier rounds to re-enter the championship through a "back door system".


2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, New provincial formats
As a result of this the Leinster Council were forced to tweak their championship format. This also led to the postponement of the championship draw. The Leinster Council's diluted proposal saw the introduction of a round-robin for the four weakest teams in the province. The group stage winners would join the other three teams in the championship proper.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Teams
Due to the introduction of the round robin system in Leinster, Carlow and Westmeath returned to the championship.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Teams
On 18 May 2000 the Roscommon County Board announced that the senior hurling team were withdrawing from the Connacht Championship. Nine of the previous year's panel were absent and, together with a lack of commitment from the remaining players, the board were left with no choice but to withdraw. As a result of this the Connacht Championship was not played and Galway's first game was an All-Ireland quarter-final.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Teams
The Kerry County Board were faced with a similar prospect to Roscommon, however, they declined to withdraw from the Munster Championship.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
The 2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the culmination of the 2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. It was played on 10 September 2000 between Kilkenny and Offaly. Kilkenny were appearing in their third All-Ireland final in-a-row after losing to Offaly in 1998 and to Cork in 1999. They were looking to capture a first championship title since 1993. Offaly were lining out in their first championship decider since they won the title in 1998. Both sides last met in the championship in the Leinster final earlier in the year when Kilkenny beat Offaly.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match report
At 3:30pm match referee Willie Barrett threw in the sliotar and the Millennium All-Ireland final, the 112th in all, got under way. Right from the throw-in the Kilkenny men tore into the game. Offaly errors, so atypical of them throughout the late 1990s, were punished mercilessly by the Kilkenny defenders and their forwards. Kilenny's D.J. Carey needed only six minutes to make his mark on this decider when he pounced on a mistake from Offaly corner-back Niall Claffey to ram home Kilkenny's opening goal. Carey's sixth-minute goal was followed three minutes later by a Henry Shefflin three pointer.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match report
Shefflin's effort was helped home by Carey but the umpire ruled that the ball had already crossed the line. After ten minutes the score read 2-3 to 0-1 in Kilkenny's favour. The last twenty-five minutes of the opening half saw Offaly get into the groove and score seven more points, five of which came from Johnny Dooley frees. Offaly's only real goal chance, a ground stroke from Michael Duignan, went narrowly wide in the eighteenth minute.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match report
Kilkenny, however, created several opportunities to add to their two early goals and it was little surprise when Charlie Carter bagged a third goal for ‘the Cats’ four minutes before half-time. At the interval, in spite of Offaly's eighteen scoring chances to Kilkenny's fifteen, ‘the Cats’ had to a ten-point lead of 3-10 to 0-9.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match report
At the beginning of the second-half the Offaly selectors made some tactical changes. Wing-back Brian Whelahan and corner-forward Michael Duignan swapped positions while John Troy was brought from the substitutes' bench. These changes failed to alter the dominance of Kilkenny as ‘the Cats’ looked likely to score a goal at any time of the game. For the second time Shefflin was the man on hand to hit the fourth goal after latching onto a brilliant long clearance from substitute Canice Brennan and kicking the sliothar past Stephen Byrne from close range.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match report
In the fifty-ninth minute Johnny Pilkington clawed one back for Offaly when his shot went past James McGarry. An injury-time goal by substitute Eddie Brennan was the icing on the cake as Kilkenny defeated their Leinster rivals by 5-15 to 1-14. This game marked the end of the road for the great Offaly team of the 1990s while it was the beginning of a great decade of success for Kilkenny.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final
The 2000 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final was the 27th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 2000 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship, an inter-county ladies' Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.


2000 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final
Mayo led by three points at the break and won by a point in the end, Cora Staunton leading the scoring with 2:2.


2000 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship
The 2000 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship was the 37th staging of the All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county hurling tournament for players under the age of twenty-one. The championship began on 7 June 2000 and ended on 17 September 2000.


2000 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship
Kilkenny were the defending champions but were defeated by Offaly in the Leinster final.


2000 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship
On 17 September 2000, Limerick won the championship following a 1-13 to 0-13 defeat of Galway in the All-Ireland final. This was their second All-Ireland title and their first since 1987.


2000 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship
Limerick's Mark Keane was the championship's top scorer with 3-34.


2000 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final
The 2000 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship final was a hurling match that was played at Semple Stadium, Thurles on 17 September 2000 to determine the winners of the 2000 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, the 37th season of the All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champion teams of the four provinces of Ireland. The final was contested by Limerick of Munster and Galway of Connacht, with Limerick winning by 1-13 to 0-13.


2000 All-Pro Team
The 2000 All-Pro Team is composed of the National Football League players that were named to the Associated Press, Pro Football Writers Association, and The Sporting News All-Pro Teams in 2000. Both first and second teams are listed for the AP team. These are the three teams that are included in Total Football II: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League. In 2000 the Pro Football Writers Association and Pro Football Weekly combined their All-pro teams, a practice with continues through 2008. In 2000 the AP did not have a separate “Fullback” position.


2000 All-SEC football team
The 2000 All-SEC football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) chosen by various selectors for the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season.


2000 All-SEC football team
Auburn running back Rudi Johnson was unanimously voted the AP SEC Offensive Player of the Year. Tennessee defensive tackle John Henderson was unanimously voted the AP SEC Defensive Player of the Year.


2000 Allan Cup
The 2000 Allan Cup was the Canadian national senior ice hockey championship for the 1999-2000 Senior "AAA" season. The event was hosted by the Lloydminster Border Kings in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan/Alberta. The 2000 tournament marked the 92nd year that the Allan Cup has been awarded.


2000 Allsvenskan
Allsvenskan 2000, part of the 2000 Swedish football season, was the 76th Allsvenskan season played. The first match was played 8 April 2000 and the last match was played 4 November 2000. Halmstads BK won the league ahead of runners-up Helsingborgs IF, while GAIS and Västra Frölunda IF were relegated.


2000 Aloha Bowl
The 2000 Aloha Bowl was a college football bowl game played December 25, 2000 in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was part of the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. It featured the Boston College Eagles of the Big East Conference, and the Arizona State Sun Devils of the Pacific-10 Conference. Boston College won the game, 31–17. This was the final Aloha Bowl.


2000 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Downhill, Final point standings
Overall | Downhill | Super G | Giant Slalom | Slalom | Combined


2000 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Giant Slalom, Final point standings
In Men's Giant Slalom World Cup 1999/2000 all results count. Austrian athletes won eight races out of nine.


2000 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Giant Slalom, Final point standings
Overall | Downhill | Super G | Giant Slalom | Slalom | Combined


2000 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Slalom, Final point standings
In Men's Slalom World Cup 1999/2000 the all results count.


2000 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Slalom, Final point standings
Overall | Downhill | Super G | Giant Slalom | Slalom | Combined


2000 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Super G, Final point standings
In Men's Super G World Cup 1999/2000 all results count. Hermann Maier won his third Super G World Cup in a row. Austrian athletes won six races out of seven.


2000 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Super G, Final point standings
Overall | Downhill | Super G | Giant Slalom | Slalom | Combined


2000 Altazor Awards
The first annual Altazor Awards 2000 took place on March 30, 2000, at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago. The nominees were announced on March 20.


2000 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre
August 2000, Kashmir massacre on 1 and 2 August was the massacre of at least 89 people (official count) to 105 (as reported by PTI) and injury to at least 62 people, in at least five different coordinated attacks by Kashmiri separatist militants in Anantnag district and Doda district of Kashmir Valley in India.


2000 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre
Out of these, 32 were killed on 2 August in 2000, Amarnath yatra massacre at Nunwan base camp in Pahalgam. Dead included 21 Hindu pilgrims, 7 local Muslim shopkeepers and 3 security officers, and 7 more people were also injured.


2000 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre, Details
Total up to 105 or more killed and at least 62 injured, in five separate coordinated terror attacks, include the following partial count on the morning of 3 August 2000.


2000 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre, Details, 2000 Amarnath pilgrim massacre at Pahalgam base camp
At least 32 people and 60 more injured, who were mostly unarmed civilians persons. 21 were Hindu pilgrims, seven Muslims shopkeepers and porters, and 3 security officials. The pilgrims were on their way to Amarnath cave shrine on annual pilgrimage. Many of those killed were local Bakarwal gurjar Muslim men and porters hiring their horses and services to ferry the pilgrims to the site. Subsequently, then Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited Pahalgam and blamed Lashkar-e-Taiba for the killings.


2000 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre, Details, 2000 twin Hindu massacres at Mirbazar-Qazigund and Sandoo-Acchabal
At least 27 civilian migrant labourers from the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, were killed in similar simultaneous terror attacks in Mirbazar-Qazigund and Sandoo-Acchabal in Anantnag district.


2000 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre, Details, 2000 Hindu massacre at Doda
At least 11 unarmed civilian people were killed in a pre-dawn terrorist attack in a remote village.


2000 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre, Details, 2000 massacre at Kupwara
At least 7 unarmed civilian were killed when around the same time as Doda attack, another group of terrorists simultaneously attacked another remote village in Kupwara to seven Muslim members of a family of a surrendered former militant.


2000 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre, Details, 2000 massacre at Kayar
At least 8 unarmed civilian were killed and 2 more injured in an ambush by terrorists on a group of Village Defence Committee patrol party members of Kayar village of Doda district.


2000 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre, Aftermath
Then Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee of National Democratic Alliance blamed Pakistan for being determined to sabotage democracy in Jammu and Kashmir.


2000 Amber Valley Borough Council election
The 2000 Amber Valley Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of Amber Valley Borough Council in Derbyshire, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1999 increasing the number of seats by 2. The Conservative Party gained control of the council from the Labour Party.


2000 Amber Valley Borough Council election, Election result
Overall turnout in the election was 31.6%, with a trial in 2 wards seeing a 115% increase in postal voting after anyone was allowed to apply.


2000 America East Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2000 America East Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 18-20 at Frawley Stadium in Wilmington, Delaware. The top four regular season finishers of the league's eight teams qualified for the double-elimination tournament. In the championship game, first-seeded Delaware defeated fourth-seeded Northeastern, 4-2, to win its third consecutive and fifth overall tournament championship. As a result, Delaware received the America East's automatic bid to the 2000 NCAA Tournament.


2000 America East Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding
The top four finishers from the regular season were seeded one through four based on conference winning percentage only. They then played in a double-elimination format. In the first round, the one and four seeds were matched up in one game, while the two and three seeds were matched up in the other.


2000 America East Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2000 America East Men's Basketball Tournament was hosted by the Delaware Blue Hens at Bob Carpenter Center. The final was held at Hofstra Arena on the campus of Hofstra University. Hofstra gained its first America East Conference Championships and an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament with its win over Delaware. Hofstra was given the 14th seed in the East Regional of the NCAA Tournament and lost in the first round to Oklahoma State 86–66. Delaware gained a bid to the NIT and lost in the first round to Villanova 72–63.


2000 America's Cup
The 30th America's Cup was won by Team New Zealand, who swept the 2000 Louis Vuitton Cup winner Prada Challenge in all five races. It was the first America's Cup without an American challenger or defender.


2000 America's Cup, Crew, Team New Zealand
* Sailed in Race 5The crew included Rick Dodson, Hamish Pepper, Jeremy Scantlebury, Murray Jones, Matthew Mason, Jeremy Lomas, Craig Monk, Chris Ward, Grant Loretz, Mike Drummond, Jono Macbeth, Barry McKay, Joe Allen, Nick Heron, Tony Rae, Dean Phipps, Warwick Fleury and Simon Daubney. Peter Blake did not sail with the team in 2000, acting as the on-shore manager.


2000 America's Cup, Crew, Team New Zealand
Peter Evans was the backup tactician and ran the weather programme.


2000 American Le Mans Series
The 2000 American Le Mans Series was the second running of the IMSA American Le Mans Series, and overall the 30th season of an IMSA GT Championship, dating back to the 1971 edition. It was a series for Le Mans Prototypes (LMP) and Grand Touring (GT) race cars divided into 3 classes: LMP, GTS, and GT. It began March 18, 2000 and ended December 31, 2000 after 12 races.


2000 American Le Mans Series
This season was the first time that the ALMS held races outside of North America, with two events held in Europe and one in Australia. These events helped with the creation of the 2001 European Le Mans Series season, although it was short-lived. An Asian Le Mans Series was also discussed but not developed.


2000 American Le Mans Series, Schedule
The 2000 schedule greatly expanded from the previous season, adding not only three races outside North America, but an additional North American round as well. Silverstone Circuit and the Nürburgring were scheduled before and after the 24 Hours of Le Mans, while the Race of a Thousand Years in Australia was held long after the North American season ended. Road courses at Charlotte Motor Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway replaced the previous year's Grand Prix of Atlanta at Road Atlanta.


2000 American Le Mans Series, Drivers Championship
The Drivers Championship was won by Allan McNish with Rinaldo Capello placed second.


2000 American Le Mans Series, Teams Championship
Points are awarded to the finishers in the following order:


2000 American Le Mans Series, Teams Championship
Exceptions being for the 12 Hours of Sebring, 1000 km of Nurburgring, Petit Le Mans, and Race of a Thousand Years which awarded in the following order:


2000 American Le Mans Series, Teams Championship
Points were only awarded for the best 10 finishes in the 12 race season. Points won but not counted towards the season championship are listed in italics.


2000 American Le Mans Series, Teams Championship
Cars failing to complete 70% of the winner's distance are not awarded points. Teams only score the points of their highest finishing entry in each race.


2000 American League Championship Series
The 2000 American League Championship Series (ALCS) was a matchup between the East Division champion New York Yankees and the Wild Card Seattle Mariners. The Yankees had advanced to the Series after beating the West Division champion Oakland Athletics in the ALDS three games to two and the Mariners advanced by beating the Central Division champion Chicago White Sox three games to none. The Yankees won the Series four games to two and went on to defeat the New York Mets in the World Series to win their third consecutive World Series championship, 26th overall.


2000 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
The opener at Yankee Stadium on a cool night was a pitchers' duel between Freddy García and Denny Neagle, and the game was scoreless through four innings. In the top of the fifth, Mark McLemore got Seattle's first hit, a two-out ground-rule double lined down the left field line, then scored on a Rickey Henderson single slapped to right field. Alex Rodriguez led off the sixth inning with a home run high off the left field foul pole's screen to give the M's another.


2000 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
In the bottom half, Chuck Knoblauch led off with a double and Derek Jeter walked; Paul O'Neill and Bernie Williams struck out, then David Justice flew out deep to center to end the threat. The Yankees outhit the Mariners by one, but could not score off García (6+2⁄3 innings) and relievers José Paniagua, Arthur Rhodes, and Kazuhiro Sasaki; Seattle took the opener with a 2–0 shutout.


2000 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
Game 2 started just after 4 pm EDT, and the sun was difficult in the outfield for the first three innings. The Yankees' offense was again dead silent, this time against Mariner starter John Halama and reliever José Paniagua. In the first, New York loaded the bases (without a hit) and no outs, but could not score. Bernie Williams' ground ball went just inches and M's catcher Dan Wilson grabbed it, stepped on home, and threw to first for the double play; Tino Martinez then grounded out to second.


2000 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
In the top of the second, Seattle threatened with a leadoff walk by Edgar Martínez followed by a lunging single to center by John Olerud. Al Martin flew out to deep right center and the two advanced. David Bell lined the ball back to Orlando Hernández, who doubled up Olerud at second to end the inning.


2000 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
Hernández pitched eight innings and gave up just one run, a Stan Javier single in the third that scored Mike Cameron, who had walked with two outs and stole second, after nearly being picked off at first. Hernández gave up six hits, but was set to get the loss until the Yankees' offense exploded in the eighth against Arthur Rhodes and José Mesa. David Justice led off with a double and scored on a single by Williams to tie the game, New York's first run in 21 innings.


2000 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
Back-to-back singles by Martinez and Jorge Posada then gave New York a 2–1 lead. Paul O'Neill then hit a sacrifice fly to score another. Mesa replaced Rhodes for Seattle and gave up a single to Luis Sojo. Posada was caught diving back to third for the second out on a safety squeeze; José Vizcaíno then doubled to left center to score Sojo from first to make it 4–1 Yankees. Vizcaíno went to third on a passed ball, scored on a Chuck Knoblauch single up the middle, and Derek Jeter sliced a homer to right to make it 7–1. Up again, Justice fouled off several and flew out to center to end the lengthy inning. Closer Mariano Rivera pitched a scoreless ninth: Olerud sliced a ground-rule double to lead off, but three ground balls ended the game; the series was tied at 1–1 and headed to Seattle.


2000 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
The Mariners struck first in Game 3 on three consecutive singles in the first, the last of which by Edgar Martínez off Andy Pettitte scored Mike Cameron from second. The Yankees responded with back-to-back home runs from Bernie Williams and Tino Martinez to lead off the second off Aaron Sele. The M's threatened with two on and no outs, but could not score. New York extended their lead to 3–1 in the third when Derek Jeter, who reached on a fielder's choice to avoid an inning-ending double play, scored on a double to left-center by David Justice.


2000 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
Seattle closed the deficit to one in the fifth when Rickey Henderson doubled to right-center and scored on a jammed single over shortstop from Cameron, but Alex Rodriguez flew high to left and Martínez grounded to shortstop (fielder's choice) to end the inning. The Yankees got that run right back in the sixth as Williams singled up the middle with one out and Martinez dribbled an infield single. Jorge Posada flew out deep to right and Williams advanced to third, then scored on Paul O'Neill's single to right; Luis Sojo flew to right for the third out. In the bottom of the eighth, Rodriguez singled and stole second, but Martínez struck out, and closer Mariano Rivera relieved Jeff Nelson. Pinch hitter Stan Javier grounded to third and John Olerud went to a full count then flew out to left.


2000 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
New York broke the game open with four runs in the ninth. O'Neill grounded out to first and Sojo singled up the middle; José Vizcaino entered as a pinch runner and stole second. Scott Brosius walked, and Vizcaino advanced to third on a wild pitch. Chuck Knoblauch hit an RBI single up the middle off of Brett Tomko, who then walked Jeter (after a lengthy at-bat) to load the bases. Lefthander Robert Ramsay relieved Tomko and allowed a two-run single to right by Justice and a sacrifice fly to left by Williams to make it 8–2. Rivera retired the Mariners in order for a five-out save as the Yankees went up 2−1 in the series.


2000 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
In one of the most dominant pitching performances in postseason history, Yankees starter Roger Clemens struck out 15 batters in a complete game one-hit shutout of the Mariners. Clemens carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning when Al Martin lined a leadoff double off first baseman Tino Martinez's glove for the Mariners' only hit of the game. Clemens got offensive support when Derek Jeter hit a three-run home run off Paul Abbott in the fifth and David Justice hit a two-run home run off José Mesa in the eighth after a leadoff walk to Jeter. The Yankees won 5–0 and were just one win away from the World Series.


2000 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4
Clemens' 15 strikeouts matched the ALCS record set by Mike Mussina in Game 3 in 1997. Fifteen strikeouts in a postseason game did not happen again until the 2019 ALDS, by Gerrit Cole of the Houston Astros.


2000 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
Facing elimination, the Mariners struck first in Game 5 on Sunday. After Rickey Henderson was caught looking, Yankee starter Denny Neagle walked three straight to load the bases in the bottom of the first; Mike Cameron scored on a sacrifice fly to right from John Olerud, then Jay Buhner struck out. The Yankees responded in the fourth when  Tino Martinez doubled to right-center, Jorge Posada singled to left, and Paul O'Neill walked to load the bases with no outs. Luis Sojo hit a double to left-center off Freddy García that scored Martinez and Posada. Seattle escaped further damage as Scott Brosius flew out to third, Chuck Knoblauch struck out, and Derek Jeter grounded to shortstop.


2000 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
Bernie Williams robbed Olerud of a home run in the bottom of the fourth, then hit a double to the wall in right center, where he stayed, as Martinez grounded to short, Posada walked, and O'Neill swung at a 3–0 pitch away and grounded into a fielder's choice to end the inning.


2000 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
In the bottom of the fifth, Mark McLemore led off with a bunt single halfway to third, Henderson walked, and Cameron advanced them with a bunt down the first base line. Neagle was replaced with Jeff Nelson, who gave up a single to Alex Rodriguez through the hole to left that scored both runners for a 3–2 lead. With Rodriguez threatening to run at first, Edgar Martínez drove a 2–0 pitch over the center field wall and Olerud made it back-to-back on the next pitch with his own to right-center. With the Mariners up 6–2, Nelson was relieved by Jason Grimsley. Buhner singled down the first base line, David Bell popped out to center, and consecutive walks to Dan Wilson and McLemore loaded the bases; Dwight Gooden induced a soft infield fly from Henderson to end the inning.


2000 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
Neither team scored afterwards, but in the seventh, Jeter led off with a walk and reliever José Paniagua was replaced by Arthur Rhodes. David Justice struck out, but Williams and Martinez walked to load the bases. With the tying run at the plate, Posada fanned and pinch hitter Glenallen Hill was caught looking. In the bottom of the inning, Olerud led off with a single, stole second, advanced to third on a ground ball, but was stranded.


2000 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
Rhodes struck out Sojo in the top of the eighth, but walked Brosius and was replaced by closer Kazuhiro Sasaki: Knoblauch fouled out to Olerud, Jeter lined a single to left, and Justice struck out. New York's David Cone retired the M's in order: McLemore and Raúl Ibañez both grounded out to second, while Cameron fouled out to Brosius. In the ninth, Sasaki hit Williams on an 0–2 count, who advanced to second on a wild pitch, then to third when Martinez grounded to second. Posada walked, pinch hitter Luis Polonia struck out, and Sojo flew to center, ending the game.


2000 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5
Neagle accounted for both New York losses in the series, as García defeated him twice. The Yankees left 15 runners on base in Game 5 and were 2 for 15 with runners in scoring position. The Seattle win forced a sixth game at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday.


2000 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 6
The Mariners again struck first in Game 6, taking a 2–0 lead in the first when Yankees starter Orlando Hernández walked Al Martin, then gave up back-to-back doubles to Alex Rodriguez and Edgar Martínez. Seattle made it 4–0 when Carlos Guillen hit a two-run home run in the fourth. The Yankees responded in the bottom of the inning when they loaded the bases before Jorge Posada hit a double off John Halama that scored David Justice and Bernie Williams. Posada then scored on a Paul O'Neil single to make it a one-run game.


2000 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 6
The score stayed 4–3 until the bottom of the seventh, when New York put runners on first and third with one out off José Paniagua, who was replaced with Arthur Rhodes. Rhodes gave up a three-run home run to David Justice to give the Yankees a 6–4 lead. The bases were then loaded up with a single, double, and intentional walk before O'Neill's single scored two. José Mesa relieved Rhodes and walked Luis Sojo to reload the bases and Jose Vizcaino's sacrifice fly made it 9–4 Yankees.


2000 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 6
Alex Rodriguez led off the top of the eighth with a home run off Hernández. After walking Edgar Martínez, Hernández was replaced with Mariano Rivera, who gave up a double to John Olerud, then two outs later, another double to Mark McLemore that scored both Martinez and Olerud before striking out Jay Buhner to end the inning. Rivera then pitched a scoreless ninth as New York  won 9–7 and advance to the World Series against the cross-town Mets.


2000 American League Championship Series, Television coverage
On September 26, 2000, NBC declined to renew its broadcast agreement with Major League Baseball. After 50 seasons — 1947–1989 and 1994–2000 — Game 6 is the last Major League Baseball game that NBC has televised to date. In Houston, due to the coverage of the 2000 Presidential Debate, KPRC-TV elected to carry NBC News' coverage of the debate while KNWS-TV carried NBC's final baseball game.