2000 Peach Bowl
In the third quarter, Rohan Davey threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Tommy Banks, as LSU got within 14–9. In the fourth quarter, Davey threw a 9-yard touchdown pass to Josh Reed giving LSU a 17–14 lead. John Corbello kicked a 49-yard field goal giving the Tigers a 20–14 advantage. Davey later threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Tommy Banks as LSU won by a 28-14 count.


2000 Pendle Borough Council election
The 2000 Pendle Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of Pendle Borough Council in Lancashire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.


2000 Pendle Borough Council election, Background
Before the election, the Liberal Democrats held 23 seats, compared to 19 for Labour and 8 Conservatives, while one seat was vacant. Seventeen seats were being contested, with two seats being up for election in Waterside ward after Labour councillor Ann Doult resigned from the council due to ill health. The Liberal Democrats only contested 13 of the 17 seats, saying "we're concentrating our resources where we think it's best".


2000 Pendle Borough Council election, Election result
The results saw no party win a majority on the council, but the Labour party gained 4 seats.


2000 Pendle Borough Council election, By-elections between 2000 and 2002
A by-election in Horsfield ward took place on 1 March 2001 after Labour councillor Colin Nightingale resigned his seat on the council due to pressure of work. The Liberal Democrats gained the seat from Labour by 429 votes, with the former mayoress of Pendle, Dorothy Lord, regaining a seat on the council after she had lost her seat in Vivary Bridge at the 2000 election.


2000 Penn Quakers football team
The 2000 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 2000 NCAA Division I-AA football season.


2000 Penn State Nittany Lions football team
The 2000 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head coach was Joe Paterno. It played its home games at Beaver Stadium in University Park, Pennsylvania.


2000 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Schedule
Penn State did not play Big Ten teams Northwestern and Wisconsin this year.


2000 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Roster
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2000 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Roster
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2000 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Post season, NFL draft
Four Nittany Lions were drafted in the 2001 NFL Draft.


2000 Pennsylvania Attorney General election
Pennsylvania's Attorney General election was held November 7, 2000. Necessary primary elections were held on April 4, 2000. Incumbent Mike Fisher was unopposed for the Republican nomination and won a second term by a relatively comfortable margin. Jim Eisenhower, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and close confidant of Ed Rendell was the Democratic nominee; he earned a narrow victory in the party primary over John Morganelli, the District Attorney of Northampton County.


2000 Pennsylvania Auditor General election
Pennsylvania's Auditor General election was held November 7, 2000. Incumbent Democrat Bob Casey won reelection by a healthy margin. His Republican challenger was Katie True, a State Representative from the Lancaster area. Both candidates were unopposed in the primary.


2000 Pennsylvania Avenue
2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, also known as The Shops at 2000 Penn and Red Lion Row, is a shopping center and eight-story office complex located on Pennsylvania Avenue, NW in Washington, D.C. It forms a busy gateway into the main campus of the George Washington University, which owns the property. As the 2000 Block of Eye Street, NW, the houses were named a DC Landmark and added to the National Register of Historic Places, both in 1977.


2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, History, Early history
The original buildings on the site were thirteen row houses constructed between 1831 and 1896. The homes were located on a block bordered by H, I, 20th, and 21st Streets, NW. The houses were mostly initially owned by merchants, who kept small shops inside. The block originally faced Western Market, founded in 1803; the site of the market is a park today.


2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, History, Early history
The largest unit in the block was a corner structure, at 832 20th St. and 2004 I St.  Three stories tall, it was constructed with a flat roof and metal cornice; imitation stone covered the facade. The building began life as a pair of independent shops, owned separately, before later being combined. The earliest Washington city directory, published in 1822, lists a grocery store owned by Christian and Matthew Hines on the corner. Grocers have continued to occupy the site into the twentieth century.


2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, History, Early history
The corner store was sold in 1837 to Samuel Stott, whose family owned it for decades thereafter. The current building, believed to be his work, was known by the middle of the century as "Stott's Hall". Its third floor was a public hall. Though the exact date of its construction is uncertain, in 1869 the assessed value of 832 20th St. rocketed from $2500 to $6000, indicating a major remodeling; it is believed that the current building was built at an earlier date and remodeled around that year.


2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, History, Early history
The construction date of 2004 I St. is unknown, but it is believed that the house was built at around the same time as its neighbor. This structure was owned by Owen Murray, a grocer, in 1869; he sold it to Stott in 1876. Other occupants of the property included Francis Jarboe, George Fillebrown, and William Brown, the latter running a grocery store on the site beginning in 1872 and continuing past the turn of the century.


2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, History, Early history
2006 I St. was constructed in the Greek Revival style around 1846, and has been remodeled several times since then. It is distinguished by its cornice, deep and with wooden dentil blocks. The original owners of the house were the Murray family, who were probably its builders as well. Owen Murray operated his grocery elsewhere on the block between 1843 and 1853; later, at 2006, one Patrick Murray is listed in 1863 as owning a restaurant in the space.


2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, History, Early history
Beginning in 1869 John Leamy appears in the city directory as a restaurateur in the same place, continuing until 1871; in 1876 John Ohl is listed as proprietor of a restaurant and saloon. He purchased the building from the Murrays; he continued to own it past 1888, when its occupant, John Werner, kept a saloon on the site. The building has continued to serve in various commercial capacities, including again as a restaurant recently.


2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, History, Early history
2018 I St. was constructed in 1886. Its builder was carpenter Richard Fowler, member of the firm F.A. Conrad & Co. and resident in the neighborhood. The house, in Victorian style,  has a corbeled brick cornice; its pressed brick facade, unaltered since it was built, is broken by a variety of arched windows, in different sizes. The house is three stories tall, with four bays and a flat roof.


2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, History, Early history
A combined residential and commercial space, the house was built for the Eikers, a family of merchants – Isaac Eiker and his sons, who sold butter, had moved to the site in 1876, and family members ether ran stalls in several area markets or were the proprietors of grocery stores. They owned the building well into the 20th century; more recently, it has served as office space.


2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, History, Early history
2022 and 2024 I St. were constructed by former DC territorial governor Alexander Robey Shepherd between 1874 and 1875. They were the central two units in a row of four, and were built as mirror images of each other, under a mansard roof. Not long after the buildings were completed, Shepherd sold 2022 I St., to Isaac Filbert, a contractor; Arthur W. Fairfax, a grocer, was listed as the building's tenant in 2022. His family continued to own it until it was purchased by the Foley Company in 1960. Shepherd continued to own the house at 2024 I. St., likely renting it out until his flight from the city, whereupon it was handed over to his creditors.


2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, History, Early history
2040 I St. and 825 21st St. were completed in 1879 by Robert Earl, along with a third unit (2038 I St.), now demolished. Earl is listed in records as having lived in the neighborhood, on H St. between 20th and 21st, as early as 1830; for over forty years he ran a livery stable nearby. His son, Charles, took over in 1874, moving the business a short distance to 19th St.  2040 I St. is not owned by George Washington University, the only structure on the block which is under different ownership.


2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, History, Later uses
By the time George Washington University took possession of the houses, some were vacant, and the block was generally in poor condition.


2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, History, Later uses
Battles to preserve the row of houses began in October 1976, when the developer who owned several of them began demolishing the house at 2022 I St.  Don't Tear It Down (forerunner to the DC Preservation League), a group of historical preservationists organized in 1971 to save the Old Post Office building from destruction, convinced a judge to order a temporary restraining order stopping destruction, as a request to declare the entire block a historic landmark was pending at the time.


2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, History, Later uses
The developer then attempted, in November, to demolish the house at 2030 I St.; this structure was already listed on the National Register of Historic Places, however, and the state historic preservation officer invoked a delay of 180 days. Discussions with the community did not even begin until the 179th day, and a thirty-day extension to the stay was granted. When this expired, the developer began demolition of the house; preservationists managed to get a restraining order in time to preserve the front half of the structure.


2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, History, Later uses
Citing the requirement for "meaningful discussion" as laid out in a previous historic preservation case, Don't Tear It Down argued that they had not been able to adequately present their case; while the presiding judge stated that "meaningful discussion" was "beyond the court’s comprehension", he nevertheless issued an injunction preventing further demolition before the case could be heard by the DC Court of Appeals. In the event, historic preservation legislation was passed in 1978 before final adjudication, saving the buildings from destruction. The current design of the property is the result of discussions with local preservation groups.


2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, History, Later uses
Construction of the office building, between 1982 and 1983, involved demolishing the backs of the houses while retaining their facades; it was the first time the practice of partial demolition was used in Washington, DC. The thirteen buildings were joined together during construction of the shops and office building; some of their original materials were retained for the finished product. Work began on the complex on December 28, 1982; it was named on October 19, 1983. In addition to office space, the complex contains restaurants and other commercial establishments, including a Bertucci's and a CVS Pharmacy.


2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, History, Later uses
The office building has sometimes been called the Cruise Ship Building due to its appearance. The block as a whole is sometimes called Red Lion Row, a name taken from Lindy's Red Lion pub which was situated at its corner until late 2018.


2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, History, Later uses
The 2000 Penn complex is currently being renovated to include more vendors, additional entrances, and various other modernizations with a layout similar to Eastern Market. The proposed name of the renovated space is "Western Market".


2000 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election
Elections for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives were held on November 7, 2000, with all districts being contested. State Representatives are elected for two-year terms, with the entire House of Representatives up for a vote every two years. The term of office for those elected in 2000 ran from January 3, 2001 until November 30, 2002. Necessary primary elections were held on April 4, 2000.


2000 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election, Notable elections, Retirements
Republican Todd Platts was elected to represent Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district, allowing fellow Republican Beverly D. Mackereth to take his seat in the 119th legislative district.


2000 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election, Notable elections, Retirements
In the 54th legislative district, Terry Van Horne was succeeded by fellow Democrat John Pallone. Van Horne was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress, losing to Republican Pennsylvania State Senator Melissa Hart in the election for Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district.


2000 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election, Notable elections, Retirements
In the 37th legislative district, Republican Katie True left her seat to run as the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania Auditor General, eventually losing the election to Democrat Bob Casey, Jr.. Her fellow Republican, Thomas C. Creighton, succeeded her. True would eventually return to the House in the newly redistricted 41st legislative district in the 2002 election.


2000 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election, Notable elections, Democratic primary upsets in Philadelphia
In the 180th legislative district, Democratic incumbent Benjamin Ramos was defeated by Angel Cruz, who went on to easily win the general election. In the 197th legislative district, Democratic incumbent Andrew J. Carn was defeated by Jewell Williams, who also went on to easily win the general election.


2000 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election, Notable elections, 60th legislative district
In the 60th legislative district, incumbent Tim Pesci was defeated for re-election by 25-year-old Republican Jeff Coleman, in spite of the district being 70% Democratic. Bill DeWeese, the House Democratic Leader, said that Pesci had run a "condescending" race against Coleman, calling his opponent "Jeffy" and describing Coleman's campaign volunteers as "the Children from the Corn," referring to the horror film.


2000 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election, Notable elections, 189th legislative district
In the 189th legislative district, Democratic incumbent Joseph W. Battisto was defeated by Republican Kelly Lewis. Battisto attempted a comeback in a 2002 special election for the 176th legislative district, but lost to Mario Scavello.


2000 Pennsylvania Senate election
Elections for the Pennsylvania State Senate were held on November 7, 2000, with even-numbered districts being contested. State Senators are elected for four-year terms, with half of the Senate seats up for a vote every two years. The term of office for those elected in 2000 ran from January 3, 2001 until November 30, 2004. Necessary primary elections were held on April 27, 2004.


2000 Pennsylvania Senate election
The make-up of the senate remained the same following the 2000 elections. Democratic Mike Stack defeated incumbent Republican Frank A. Salvatore in the 5th senatorial district. Republican Donald C. White defeated the democratic nominee to succeed the retiring Patrick J. Stapleton, Jr. in the 41st senatorial district. Democratic Sean Logan succeeded the retiring Albert V. Belan.


2000 Pennsylvania Senate election
Republican Bill Slocum remained on the ballot in the 25th senatorial district, even after his resignation from the senate on June 1, 2000. Slocum pleaded guilty and spent a month in federal prison for filing false reports to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and discharging raw sewage into Brokenstraw Creek while he was a sewage plant manager in Youngsville, Pennsylvania. The local Republican party supported the eventual winner, Joseph B. Scarnati III, who ran as an independent and changed his party registration to Republican after his election.


2000 Pennsylvania State Treasurer election
Pennsylvania's State Treasurer election was held November 7, 2000. Incumbent Republican Barbara Hafer won a narrow reelection. Her Democratic opponent was Catherine Baker Knoll, a former two-term treasurer. Hafer and Knoll, both of whom faced no primary opposition, ran a campaign marked by personal attacks. The two candidates had previously been involved in a very public feud because of events surrounding the 1996 election for this office; in that year, the term limited Knoll endorsed her daughter as successor. However, Hafer had questioned the residency status of Mina Knoll, an attack that the older Knoll believed was disingenuous and clouded her daughter's candidacy.


2000 Pennsylvania state elections
Pennsylvania's state elections were held November 7, 2000. Necessary primary elections were held on April 4, 2000.


2000 Pennzoil 400
The 2000 Pennzoil 400 was a NASCAR Winston Cup event that occurred on November 12, 2000. The race is known for Bobby Labonte clinching his first Winston Cup title by finishing 4th. Tony Stewart won the race, leading 166 of the 267 laps run. Steve Park was on the Pole. This event was the 2nd Winston Cup event that was covered on NBC.


2000 Pennzoil 400
Lasting for three hours and eight minutes, the race would be slowed down four times for a duration of 25 laps; or 9% of the total race. The average green flag duration was slightly more than 48 laps. Six drivers were involved in terminal crashes; including last-place finisher Scott Pruett. Eight drivers failed to qualify for this race; including Kyle Petty. Morgan Shepherd withdrew from the race even though he had a good chance of qualifying.


2000 Penwith District Council election
Elections to Penwith 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 30.9%


2000 Pepsi Southern 500
The 2000 Pepsi Southern 500 presented by Kmart, the 51st running of the event, was the 24th race of the 2000 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. It was held at Darlington Raceway on September 3, 2000. The race was scheduled for 367 laps but was shortened to 328 laps due to rain. Bobby Labonte of Joe Gibbs Racing won the race.


2000 Pepsi Southern 500
Darrell Waltrip would lead his final Cup Series lap in his career on lap 48. Rick Mast leads a lap for the final time on lap 304. The Mayfield-Marcis tango didn't bring out a caution. Mayfield thought he was clear out of 2, then got hooked in the wall by Marcis. Mayfield slid down the track, sparks flying, right-front tore up, but the green flag remained active.


2000 Peruvian Segunda División
The 2000 Segunda División Peruana, the second division of Peruvian football (soccer), was played by 13 teams. The tournament winner, Deportivo Aviación was promoted to the Playoff. The tournament was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis.


2000 Peruvian general election
General elections were held in Peru on 9 April 2000, with a run-off of the presidential election on 28 May. The elections were highly controversial and widely considered to have been fraudulent. Incumbent President Alberto Fujimori was re-elected for a third term with almost three-quarters of the vote. However, the elections were tainted with allegations of unconstitutionality, bribery, structural bias, and outright electoral fraud. Alejandro Toledo boycotted the second round of the presidential election, in which over 30% of ballots were declared invalid. Fujimori subsequently called for new elections, fled Peru, and faxed in his resignation from a hotel in Japan.


2000 Peruvian general election, Constitutional issues
The Constitution of Peru specifically limited presidents to two terms, and Fujimori relied on the legally questionable theory that the restriction did not apply to him in 2000 because the 1993 Constitution was written after he nullified the previous constitution, at which time he was already in power. The electoral bodies, the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) and National Jury of Elections (Peru) (JNE), were staffed at the time with Fujimori supporters who were considered by many to be corrupt. These bodies accepted Fujimori's argument.


2000 Peruvian general election, Structural bias
Many observers believed that the government structures were set up in a way that gave Fujimori's re-election bid an unfair advantage. For example, the United States Department of State noted that generals of the Peruvian Army were removed from their positions if anti-Fujimori protests occurred in their jurisdiction, providing the army with an incentive to crack down on anti-government protesters. A cable from the American embassy to Peru noted that "gigantic pro-Fujimori slogans appeared on the sides of hills within some military reservations and bases.


2000 Peruvian general election, Structural bias
Mostly at night but sometimes in broad daylight, troops have been sighted from Tacna to Tumbes painting pro-Fujimori slogans and blacking out the slogans of opposition candidates. Military vehicles have been made available to government candidates to transport supplies and people at no charge" and that "routine public works projects" were arraigned "to maximize electoral impact."


2000 Peruvian general election, Fraud
The elections were also marred with accusations of outright fraud. During the campaign, El Comercio broke a story about a "fábrica de firmas" (signature factory) in which many people worked signing a petition to register a pro-Fujimori political party. Several of the people involved admitted to their part in this scheme. Perhaps most damning, they had copied the signatures of voters from official ONPE voter-registration lists, which were provided to them.


2000 Peruvian general election, Fraud
Shortly before the election, several people, including JNE workers, were arrested for their part in the theft of ballots. They were caught with the ballots, many of which had been filled out. The plurality of these ballots was filled out with votes for Fujimori and his electoral allies.


2000 Peruvian general election, Boycott
After Fujimori was declared the victor of the first round, Alejandro Toledo called for a boycott of the second round. Fujimori responded by reminding voters that Peruvian law makes voting obligatory, and that anyone boycotting the election could be fined. Toledo then suggested that his supporters to cast spoiled ballots.


2000 Peruvian general election, Boycott
The result was that while votes for Toledo declined from 40.24% of the valid votes cast in the first round to 25.67% of the valid votes in the second round, invalid votes jumped from 2.25% in of the total votes cast in the first round to 29.93% of total votes in the second round. That such a large percentage of votes were thrown out as invalid shows that many Peruvians took Toledo's advice and deliberately spoiled their ballots.


2000 Peruvian general election, OAS process
Following the election  the Organization of American States (OAS) established a "mesa" dialogue process (Mesa de Dialogo). The Mesa "filled the institutional vacuum caused by the polarization of political forces in Peru following the May 2000 elections. It became the locus of authoritative decisionmaking power during the final days of the Fujimori government, preparing the way for the Peruvian opposition to win control of the congress and to form an interim government." The dialogue was facilitated by a former foreign minister from the Dominican Republic, Eduardo Latorre, supported by a small OAS secretariat. The Mesa had eighteen participants and "deliberately incorporated three key sets of actors: government ministers, progovernment and opposition members of congress, and civil society representatives."


2000 Peruvian general election, OAS process
Alejandro Toledo and his Possible Peru political party were initially reluctant to engage in the Mesa, initially considering the OAS mission an attempt to prop up the Fujimori regime. Not wanting to either engage fully with the OAS mission or be isolated from the Mesa completely, Toledo remained at the edge of the process, allowing others to be directly involved in the negotiations, including Luis Solari. Toledo focused instead on international media appearances and organizing large demonstrations.


2000 Peruvian general election, OAS process
In the latter part of 2000 a series of dramatic events brought the dialogue potential of the Mesa into the foreground. On 14 September a videotape was broadcast showing security chief Vladimiro Montesinos bribing opposition congressman Alberto Kouri to join Fujimori's congressional coalition (Peru 2000). This prompted Fujimori to announce new elections and dismiss Montesinos. Further shocks followed, with Montesinos appearing in Panama to seek asylum, and then returning to Peru on 23 October, "creating fear of an imminent coup." Finally, on 20 November Fujimori faxed his resignation from Japan.


2000 Peruvian general election, OAS process
As these events unfolded, the mesa became increasingly prominent as a parallel congress with de facto political decision making power. In the institutional void created by congressional deadlock and political power struggles, few other nonviolent choices existed. As events during September and October led increasingly to a showdown between Fujimori and Montesinos, the former displayed a greater willingness to agree to political reforms in exchange for support from the OAS and the Peruvian political representatives assembled at the mesa. Despite all of the suspicions harbored by the opposition, the mesa remained a useful fallback option and a buffer against the threat of military disruption."


2000 Peterborough municipal election
The 2000 Peterborough municipal election was held in the city of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada on November 13, 2000, to choose the mayor and city councillors to sit on the Peterborough city council. Electors in Peterborough also voted for the city's representatives on the regional public and separate school boards.


2000 Peterborough municipal election, Peterborough County
Source: Bill Hodgins, "Mann reeve of Smith, Lakefield, Ennismore," Peterborough Examiner, 14 November 2000, B5.


2000 Petit Le Mans
The 2000 Petit Le Mans presented by Audi was the third running of the Petit Le Mans and the ninth round of the 2000 American Le Mans Series season. It took place at Road Atlanta, Georgia, on September 30, 2000.


2000 Philadelphia Eagles season
The 2000 season was the Philadelphia Eagles' 68th in the National Football League and their second under head coach Andy Reid. They improved on their 5–11 record from 1999 and resulted in a postseason appearance for the first time since 1996. Their season started in Dallas, with the game famously known for the onside kick that the Eagles kicked and recovered to start the game. This game is known as the Pickle Juice Game, as the Philadelphia players were given pickle juice by Andy Reid in order to prepare for the high temperature in Dallas that day.


2000 Philadelphia Eagles season
This was Donovan McNabb's first full year as starting quarterback after seeing limited action during his rookie season. With McNabb, the team posted an 11–5 record. For his efforts, McNabb was named to the Pro Bowl following the season. He would make several more Pro Bowl appearances during his time in Philadelphia. The Eagles played in five NFC Championship games and a Super Bowl (2004) during the McNabb era.


2000 Philadelphia Eagles season
The Eagles easily defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the Wild Card round 21-3, but lost to their rivals & the eventual NFC champions, the New York Giants, in the Divisional Round 20-10.


2000 Philadelphia Eagles season
In Week 5, running back Duce Staley broke his foot. He was later placed on injured reserve, ending his season. He rushed for 344 yards while active in five games.


2000 Philadelphia Eagles season, Offseason, NFL Draft
The 2000 NFL Draft was held April 15–16, 2000. No teams elected to claim any players in the supplemental draft that year. The draft was 7 rounds again.


2000 Philadelphia Eagles season, Offseason, NFL Draft
The Eagles held the 6th pick in the draft in the 7 rounds. They made a total of 7 selections in the draft.


2000 Philadelphia Eagles season, Offseason, Player selections
The table shows the Eagles selections and what picks they had that were traded away and the team that ended up with that pick. It is possible the Eagles' pick ended up with this team via another team that the Eagles made a trade with. Not shown are acquired picks that the Eagles traded away.


2000 Philadelphia Phillies season
The 2000 Philadelphia Phillies season was the 118th season in the history of the franchise.


2000 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


2000 Philadelphia Wings season
The 2000 Philadelphia Wings season marked the team's fourteenth season of operation.


2000 Philadelphia Wings season, Regular season, Conference standings
x: Clinched playoff berth; c: Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y: Clinched division; z: Clinched best regular season record; GP: Games PlayedW: Wins; L: Losses; GB: Games back; PCT: Win percentage; Home: Record at Home; Road: Record on the Road; GF: Goals scored; GA: Goals allowedDifferential: Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP: Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP: Average number of goals allowed per game


2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front
The 2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front was a military campaign conducted by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) against a Muslim secessionist group that took place during the presidency of Joseph Estrada in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in the Philippines. The campaign was waged "to weaken the Moro Islamic Liberation Front's capability to undermine the territorial integrity of the Philippines and inflict harm on both government personnel and civilians".


2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Background
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a faction of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) which broke away in 1977, had signed a ceasefire agreement and begun talks with the Philippine government in 1997 after the MNLF affirmed the 1996 Final Peace Agreement. The MILF, however, ultimately rejected the 1996 Final Peace Agreement as inadequate, reiterating a demand for a "Bangsamoro Islamic State", and not just simple political autonomy.


2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Background
The MILF continued recruiting additional members, increasing its armaments and fortifying its camps. It also began assuming territories of its own within the Philippine Republic and took on the role of government in control of these territories. The MILF taxed the residents of these areas and an armed wing, which it called the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces, secured the perimeter of its camps. Prior to April 2000, the MILF had been allowed to operate approximately 50 camps that were off limits to government soldiers. When the MILF finally broke off peace talks, the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the Philippine Army in particular, began attacking and destroying these camps one after the other.


2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Background
The administration of Philippine President Joseph Estrada advocated a hardline stance against the MILF, directing the Armed Forces of the Philippines to "go all out" against the MILF on March 21, 2000, after the secessionist group invaded the town of Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte and took hundreds of residents hostage.


2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Military operations
The AFP modified its primary internal security operation plan, Balangai, shifting attention from the communist insurgency to the Muslim secessionists. The AFP Southern Command, responsible for the areas in which the MILF operated, prepared contingency plan Sovereign Shield.


2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Military operations
Eight military operations were prepared and implemented as the campaign progressed. These were:


2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Military operations, Preliminary operations, Operation Valiancy
The 6th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army moved against the MILF forces in the Talayan-Shariff Aguak-Datu Piang area in Maguindanao and captured Camp Omar, its third largest camp located there. Camp Omar served as the headquarters of the 206th BIAF brigade under Ameril Umbra Kato and defended by 500 guerrillas. Camp Jabal Uhob, another MILF camp was also captured during the operation, which took two days.


2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Military operations, Preliminary operations, Operation Audacity
Philippine Army units moved to free the Carmen-Banilasan complex in the province of Cotabato from MILF presence and deny their freedom of movement in the area. The operation met its objective.


2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Military operations, Operations in response to occupation of towns and seizure of roadways, Operation Sovereign
The MILF launched attacks on the coastal areas of Lanao del Norte in the middle of March 2000. They blocked the Cagayan de Oro-Iligan-Kapatagan national highway and forces under the 303rd BIAF brigade under the command of Abdullah Makapaar occupied the municipal halls of Kauswagan and Munai towns. This action by the MILF prompted President Joseph Estrada to "throw the full might of the armed forces on these terrorists".


2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Military operations, Operations in response to occupation of towns and seizure of roadways, Operation Sovereign
The Philippine Army's 4th Infantry Division moved to capture the MILF's Camp Bilal in Munai. Other MILF satellite camps were also captured in the operation which took 45 days.


2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Military operations, Operations in response to occupation of towns and seizure of roadways, Operation Dominance
The MILF established checkpoints on the Narciso Ramos Highway in Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte and began collecting "toll fees" from those using the roadway. In response the AFP launched operations Dominance and Freeway with the objective of reasserting government control over the highway and free it from MILF control. The 6th Infantry Division was met by a 1000 MILF men contingent which defended from bunkers lining the highway. This came to be known as the Battle of Matanog.


2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Military operations, Operations in response to occupation of towns and seizure of roadways, Operation Freeway
This operation was the complement of Operation Dominance with the same objectives.


2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Military operations, Operations aimed at capture of Camp Abubakar, Operation Grand Sweeper
Operation Grand Sweeper was aimed at capturing the MILF satellite camps exerting control over the towns along Lake Lanao.


2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Military operations, Operations aimed at capture of Camp Abubakar, Operation Supreme
Operation Supreme's objective was the capture of the MILF's second-largest base, Camp Busrah, which was defended by an 800-man MILF unit. The camp was eventually found abandoned when government troops made their final assault.


2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Military operations, Operations aimed at capture of Camp Abubakar, Operation Terminal Velocity
Operation Terminal Velocity's objective was the capture of Camp Abubakar, the largest MILF base and seat of its Shariah-based government.


2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Aftermath
Operation Terminal Velocity, the final phase of the military campaign to reassert Philippine sovereignty over the areas occupied by the MILF, proved successful after Camp Abubakar, the "center of gravity" of the MILF organization, was captured in early July 2000. Then-President Joseph Estrada himself visited the captured Muslim rebel camp and raised the Philippine flag there, "in assertion of sovereignty". He brought truckloads of lechon and beer for the government troops, earning criticism from both devout Muslims and Catholic clerics for his insensitivity.


2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Aftermath
The campaign may have been successful from a military viewpoint, however, various authors have pointed out that the bulk of the MILF's manpower survived the clashes with the government forces and later began to re-establish camps and recruit more members; the MILF "lived to fight another day". Furthermore, the concentration of government military assets towards the Mindanao area siphoned off manpower and equipment from the Luzon and Visayas island groups, providing the communist rebellion an opportunity to assert itself.


2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Aftermath
Estrada later ordered that criminal charges against MILF leaders accused of bombings and massacres be withdrawn in an attempt to lure them back to the negotiating table. An impeachment trial against Estrada on charges of bribery was initiated in November 2000 but was aborted in January 2001 when the impeachment court voted not to open an envelope purportedly containing evidence incriminating the President, setting in motion the Second EDSA Revolution.


2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Aftermath
The 2000 Mindanao campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front cost the Philippine government Php 6 billion, approximately US$126 million at the September 2016 exchange rate.


2000 Phillips explosion
At approximately 1:22 p.m. CT on March 27, 2000, an explosion and fire responsible for one death and 71 injuries occurred at Phillips Petroleum's Houston Chemical Complex at 1400 Jefferson Road in Pasadena, Texas. The fire produced huge plumes of black smoke that spread over the heavily industrialized Houston Ship Channel and neighboring residential areas.


2000 Phillips explosion
The explosion occurred at the K-Resin facility, which made styrene-butadiene, a type of synthetic rubber. At the time of the explosion, the tank was out of service for cleaning and had no pressure or temperature gauges that would have provided the workers with an alert to the approaching crisis. Ultimately, this explosion resulted in one fatality, while 32 Phillips Petroleum employees and 39 subcontractors were taken to local hospitals for sustaining burns, smoke inhalation, and cuts from debris.


2000 Phillips explosion
It took search crews five hours to locate the body of a missing employee in the rubble. The dead man was Rodney Gott, a 45-year-old supervisor, who barely survived the Phillips Disaster of 1989. At that time, Gott was in a building whose roof collapsed but he remained in the blazing plant to save a woman and attend to the injured.


2000 Phillips explosion
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's six-month investigation concluded that failure to train workers properly was a key factor in the explosion and fire, and it proposed that Phillips Petroleum be fined $2.5 million in penalties for 50 alleged violations of safety standards at the facility.


2000 Phillips explosion, Facility today
The facility continued to manufacture high-density polyethylene (HDPE), as well as polypropylene and K-Resin SBC until 2011. This complex employs 750 workers for the production of specialty chemicals, including 150 operations and maintenance personnel.


2000 Phillips explosion, Facility today
The facility also experienced fatalities in 1989 and 1999. Today the facility only manufactures polyethylene.


2000 Phoenix Mercury season
The 2000 WNBA season was the fourth season for the Phoenix Mercury. They made the playoffs for the first time in two years, but were swept in the first round to the Los Angeles Sparks. It was the last time Phoenix were in the playoffs until the 2007 season.


2000 Phoenix Mercury season, Offseason
Edna Campbell and Toni Foster were both picked up by the Seattle Storm in the 2000 WNBA Expansion Draft.


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


2000 Piedmontese regional election
Enzo Ghigo (Forza Italia) was re-elected for the second time in a row President, defeating Livia Turco (Democrats of the Left). His re-election resulted in a landslide, as this time he was supported also by Lega Nord Piemont.


2000 Piedmontese regional election
Forza Italia was confirmed as the largest party in the region with an historic 30.8% of the vote, while the Democrats of the left were the second largest party with 17.7%. Piedmont was confirmed as a stronghold of Bonino List, whose leader Emma Bonino was candidate for president and took 5.7% of the vote.


2000 Pilot Pen Tennis
The 2000 Pilot Pen Tennis was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 18th edition of the Pilot Pen Tennis, and is part of the Tier II Series of the 2000 WTA Tour. It took place at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center in New Haven, United States, from 20 to 26 through August 2000.


2000 Pilot Pen Tennis, Finals, Singles
It was the 4th title for Williams in the season and the 13th title on her singles career. It was also her 2nd title in New Haven.


2000 Pilot Pen Tennis, Finals, Doubles
It was the 11th title for Halard-Decugis and the 14th title for Sugiyama in their respective doubles careers. It was also the 3rd title for the pair during the season, after their wins in Sydney and Miami.


2000 Pilot Pen Tennis – Doubles
Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs were the defending champions, but lost in semifinals to Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suárez.


2000 Pilot Pen Tennis – Doubles
Julie Halard-Decugis and Ai Sugiyama won the title by defeating Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suárez 6–4, 5–7, 6–2 in the final.


2000 Pilot Pen Tennis – Singles
Venus Williams was the defending champion and successfully defended her title by defeating Monica Seles 6–2, 6–4 in the final.


2000 Pilot Pen Tennis – Singles, Seeds
The first four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2000 Pingxiang steel plant explosion
The Pingxiang steel plant explosion occurred on August 21, 2000, when an oxygen generator in a steel plant located in Pingxiang, Jiangxi, China, exploded. At least 19 steel workers were killed as a result of the incident.


2000 Pittsburgh Panthers football team
The 2000 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season.


2000 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Regular season
The previous season saw Pitt miss the post season by finishing 5–6. For 2000, Pitt looked to find a replacement at defensive back for NFL drafted Hank Poteat.


2000 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Regular season
The season started out with a 30–7 win over Kent State. The Panthers then travelled to Bowling Green, winning there 34 – 16 and improving to 2-0 for the first time since 1995. Pitt then hosted Penn State for the two teams last scheduled meeting, which Pitt won 12–0. This was Pitt's first win against Penn State in 8 games and improved Pitt to 3–0, their best start since 1991. Pitt continued their winning ways with a 29–17 win over Rutgers, despite seven turnovers by the Panthers.


2000 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Regular season
Pittsburgh's winning streak would come to an end at Syracuse in double overtime fashion, 17–24. Pitt would come back two weeks later with an impressive win over Boston College. BC came into the game with the second ranked passing defence in the country, but not after Pitt quarterback John Turman threw for 332 yards and five touchdown passes. Running back Kevan Barlow also contributed, running for 209 yards on 25 carries including a 45-yard touchdown run, in the 42-26 Pitt victory.


2000 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Regular season
The following game required a road trip to, then ranked second in the nation, Virginia Tech. Pitt led Tech 34–27 going into the fourth quarter, due mostly to their passing attack. John Turman threw for 311 yards and 4 touchdown passes in the game. Without starting quarterback Michael Vick, Virginia Tech came back in the fourth quarter, scoring 10 points, to win the game 34–37. Pittsburgh only gained 24 yards on the ground and the defence gave up 477 yards.


2000 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Regular season
Pittsburgh would then host North Carolina, who would upset the Panthers 17–20 despite holding a 407–293 disadvantage in total offense. Pittsburgh would then have to visit another top ranked team on the road with a trip to, then ranked second in the nation, Miami. Pittsburgh would have its worst offensive performance of the season, gaining only 266 yards, in the 7–35 loss. The Panthers have now lost 3 straight and their record is 5–4.


2000 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Regular season
Pittsburgh clinched their first winning season since 1997 and recorded their second shutout, first time since 1987, with a 7–0 win at Temple despite 6 Panther turnovers. Wide receiver Antonio Bryant, who gained 81 yards on 6 receptions and recorded the game's only touchdown, broke the Big East record for most receiving yards in a season with 1,154 yards. Pitt would end the season 7–4, their best since 1989, with a 38–28 win over West Virginia.


2000 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Regular season
Pitt running back Kevan Barlow, playing in his last home game as a Panther, rushed for a career-high 272 yards and 4 touchdowns, 1,053 yards for the season. Only Tony Dorsett had rushed for more yards in a single game. Barlow also broke a record for most yards gained against a West Virginia defence.


2000 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Insight.com Bowl
Pittsburgh accepted a bid to play in the Insight.com Bowl, Pittsburgh's second bowl game under Walt Harris, against Iowa State. The contest was the first football game played at the home field of Major League Baseball's Arizona Diamondbacks, Bank One Ballpark. Pitt scored on their first possession by way of a 72-yard Antonio Bryant touchdown reception from quarterback John Turman. Iowa State would then go on to score 27 unanswered points. Pitt would score twice unanswered to start the second half, a Rod Rutherford 2-yard touchdown run and an Antonio Bryant 44-yard touchdown reception. Pitt would miss the extra point to make the score 20–27.


2000 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Insight.com Bowl
Pittsburgh would then give up a 72-yard punt return for a touchdown by Iowa State's JaMain Billups, 20–34. Next, Pitt's Nick Lotz would kick a 25-yard field goal to make it 23–34 with 11:08 left in the game. On Iowa State's ensuing possession, they fumbled on first play at their own 29. Kevan Barlow would score from 3 yards out with 9:45 left in the game. A failed 2-point conversion made the score 29–34.


2000 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Insight.com Bowl
Iowa State would add a 41-yard field goal with 4:53 left, 29–37. Pitt's comeback drive would be ended by a Marc Timmons interception at Iowa State's 12-yard line. John Turman threw for a career-high 347 yards and two touchdowns, Antonio Bryant caught 5 passes for 155 yards and 2 touchdowns, and Kevan Barlow rushed for 114 yards and 1 touchdown. Ramon Walker had 15 tackles and 2 forced fumbles.


2000 Pittsburgh Pirates season
The 2000 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 119th season of the franchise; the 114th in the National League. This was their 31st and final season at Three Rivers Stadium. The Pirates finished fifth in the National League Central with a record of 69–93.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season
The 2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the franchise's 68th season as a professional sports franchise and as a member of the National Football League.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season
The season began with the team trying to improve on their 6–10 record from 1999 in which they failed to qualify for the playoffs. While Pittsburgh did improve to 9–7 and had their first winning season since 1997, it was not enough for the team to qualify for the playoffs. This season also marked the Steelers' last at Three Rivers Stadium.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season
Coach Bill Cowher named Kent Graham the team's starting quarterback for the season over former starter Kordell Stewart. After a 1–3 start, Graham was injured and Stewart reclaimed the starting job. Graham was released at the end of the season.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Roster
Notable additions include Plaxico Burress, Dan Kreider, Marvel Smith and Clark Haggans.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2 (Sunday September 10, 2000): Bye Week
The Steelers had a record of 0-1 on their bye week.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3 (Sunday September 17, 2000): at Cleveland Browns
The low point for the Steelers's season was probably their Week 3 loss to the Browns. Against a team that would eventually finish 3–13, the usually stout Steelers defense allowed Tim Couch to throw for over 300 yards while failing to sack him once. Furthermore, the game ended with probably the Steelers's biggest gaffe of the season.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3 (Sunday September 17, 2000): at Cleveland Browns
The Browns's woeful offense drove down for touchdowns on each of their first two possessions, giving them an early 14–0 lead. A four-yard touchdown run by Richard Huntley helped the Steelers to narrow the deficit to 14–10 at the half, and Jerome Bettis's 10 yard touchdown run in the third quarter gave the Steelers a 20–17 lead. However, a Phil Dawson field goal tied it at 20, and a 79 yard pass from Couch to Kevin Johnson set up a 19-yard chip shot by Dawson to give the Browns a 23–20 lead with 2:48 to go.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3 (Sunday September 17, 2000): at Cleveland Browns
With the Steelers needing at least a field goal to force overtime, Kent Graham found Bobby Shaw for a 28-yard completion, then a 20-yard run by Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala put the Steelers inside the 10-yard line when they called their final timeout with 30 seconds left. The Steelers decided to go for the win, and Graham spiked the ball before making the worst play of the day. On third and goal from the six-yard line, Graham dropped back with the Browns pass rush closing in.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3 (Sunday September 17, 2000): at Cleveland Browns
Rather than throwing incomplete to stop the clock, however, Graham allowed rookie DE Courtney Brown to sack him, meaning that the Steelers had no way to stop the clock without running another play. In the ensuing chaos, the Steelers sent out kicker Kris Brown to attempt a game-tying field goal (with Graham as the holder since he was already on the field), and they failed to get their formation set before time ran out, resulting in a loss.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4 (Sunday September 24, 2000): vs. Tennessee Titans
After their humiliating loss to the Browns, the Steelers were in a must-win situation upon returning home to face the Titans. With Steve McNair suffering a bruised sternum in the Titans's previous game, it would be former Steelers QB Neil O'Donnell getting the start against his former team.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4 (Sunday September 24, 2000): vs. Tennessee Titans
While the defense harassed O'Donnell, who completed less than half his passes (13-27) with three interceptions, the Steelers trailed for much of the game with the team down 13-6 late in the third. However, Kent Graham completed a 17-yard pass to Hines Ward, who went down just before the goal line. On the first play of the fourth quarter, Kordell Stewart subbed in for Graham and jumped over the Titans line for the game-tying touchdown. A five-yard touchdown run by Jerome Bettis made it 20-16 Steelers late.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4 (Sunday September 24, 2000): vs. Tennessee Titans
With three minutes to go, Jason Gildon sacked O'Donnell, knocking him out of the game. With O'Donnell hurt, Steve McNair, who dressed for the game but was not expected to play with a bruised sternum, came in despite his injury. All McNair did was drive the Titans down the field in four plays, hitting Erron Kinney for the go-ahead touchdown with 1:31 to go. On the next play from scrimmage, Graham was hit after completing a 20 yard pass to Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala and also had to leave the game due to injury, forcing Kordell Stewart to take over at QB. Although Stewart only went 1–4 on the drive, he did manage to put the Steelers in field goal range with a 16 yard run. However, kicker Kris Brown's potential game-tying 50-yard field goal was short.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5 (Sunday October 1, 2000): at Jacksonville Jaguars
With Kent Graham out with an injury, Kordell Stewart received his first start of the season coming off losing his starting job after two much-maligned seasons. However, to the pleasant surprise of the team and the fans, Stewart demonstrated his form of old, completing 10 of 16 passes (albeit for only 132 yards, no touchdowns, and one interception) and running for 61 more. Jerome Bettis added 97 yards rushing with 2 touchdowns, and the Steelers jumped out to a 24-6 lead.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5 (Sunday October 1, 2000): at Jacksonville Jaguars
During the game, rookie WR Plaxico Burress caught a third down pass and went down without being touched. He spiked the football to celebrate (confusing NCAA rules with NFL rules), but since he was never touched down, the ball remained live (in play) and the Jaguars recovered the fumble with linebacker Danny Clark returning the ball 44 yards to the Steelers' 27 yard line. In spite of this miscue being one of the worst plays of the NFL season, the Steelers even survived this setback without points. On 4th and 3 inside the 10, Jaguars coach Tom Coughlin elected to go for it with his team down 18, and Earl Holmes upended Jaguars quarterback Mark Brunell, leaving him a yard short of a first down.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14 (Sunday December 3, 2000): vs. Oakland Raiders
With an AFC-best 10-2 record heading into Pittsburgh, the Raiders were favored to win the first Raiders-Steelers game in Pittsburgh since 1980. What instead ensued was a very exciting contest featuring vicious hits, gutsy play, and a game-ending controversy that recalled the glory days of the Raiders-Steelers rivalry in the 1970's.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14 (Sunday December 3, 2000): vs. Oakland Raiders
In the first quarter, Kordell Stewart threw a 19 yard touchdown pass to Bobby Shaw for a 7-0 lead. However, the Steelers fell behind 17-7 in the second quarter. An calf injury to Stewart forced him to the sidelines, and in his relief appearance, Kent Graham threw a pass that was intercepted by Eric Allen and returned 27 yards for a touchdown. Then with 1:06 to go in the half, Rich Gannon found tight end Randy Jordan on a screen pass for a 21 yard touchdown make the score 17-7 Raiders at the half.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14 (Sunday December 3, 2000): vs. Oakland Raiders
In the second half, Kordell Stewart returned to play despite his injury and drove the Steelers down to the Raiders's 6 yard line. This drive featured a play where Stewart fumbled at his own 14 yard line, but recovered the ball and escaped the Raiders for 17 yards. On second and goal, Stewart threw a pass in the right flat to tight end Mark Bruener at the 1, when Raiders safety Calvin Branch went into Breuner at full speed and shoved him backwards towards the 5. Unwilling to be stopped short, Breuner fought back and dragged Branch into the end zone with him just before he could be shoved out of bounds, making the score 17-14.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14 (Sunday December 3, 2000): vs. Oakland Raiders
On the first play of the fourth quarter, Stewart ran for a 17 yard touchdown for the Steelers to regain the lead, 21-17. Raiders kicker Sebastian Janikowski kicked a 42 yard field goal to make it 21-20, but with 4 minutes to play, missed another field goal that would have given the Raiders the lead. The Raiders got the ball back with 1:39 left with one last chance to win the game. Rich Gannon completed passes to receivers James Jett and Andre Rison for 11 and 14 yards, then found Tim Brown to convert a fourth down at midfield.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14 (Sunday December 3, 2000): vs. Oakland Raiders
The game came down to a controversial call. The Raiders had a fourth and one at the Steelers' 41 yard line, but the sideline crew was slow to switch the down markers from 3 to 4, so Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon called for a pass out in the flat to fullback Jon Ritchie. The Steelers blitzed and forced Gannon to throw incomplete, when the Raiders began to challenge their turnover on downs. Referee Tom White conferred with scorekeeper Charles Heberling to review the down and distance for the previous four plays, and Heberling confirmed that because the previous play was in fact fourth down in spite of what was labeled, the Steelers would be awarded the ball.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14 (Sunday December 3, 2000): vs. Oakland Raiders
During the game, Raiders lineman Regan Upshaw confronted punter Josh Miller after a Steelers punt and spat at him. While Upshaw was not penalized as the refs did not see the incident, CBS cameras did and Upshaw was fined nearly $30,000 after the game.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14 (Sunday December 3, 2000): vs. Oakland Raiders
On the ESPN highlight show NFL Primetime, rather than being shown and recapped with one of the show's standard themes, the highlights were set to the NFL Films songs "A Golden Boy Again" and "Raiders' Theme" to commemorate the final Raiders-Steelers matchup at Three Rivers Stadium, as well as the final game from Three Rivers they would show a highlight from during a regular edition of the show.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15 (Sunday December 10, 2000): at New York Giants
Just one week after their big win against the Raiders, the Steelers were blown out against the Giants in New Jersey. The Steelers allowed 333 yards passing from Giants quarterback Kerry Collins, and the Steelers were held to just 47 yards rushing.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15 (Sunday December 10, 2000): at New York Giants
The Giants held a 13–3 lead at halftime, and extended their lead to 20–3 after a Collins touchdown pass to Ike Hilliard.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15 (Sunday December 10, 2000): at New York Giants
The Steelers's best play of the game, in fact, came on what appeared to be yet another bad play for the team.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15 (Sunday December 10, 2000): at New York Giants
Kerry Collins completed a pass to a wide-open Hilliard, and he cut to the middle of the field, appearing to break free for what would be a 66 yard touchdown when fullback Greg Comella flattened Steelers safety Ainsley Battles on a block inside the 10, but somehow, Battles rolled into position and tripped up Hilliard at the 7 yard line, and a sure Giants touchdown became a field goal to make it 23-3. Battles's miraculous tackle gave the Steelers one more chance to stay in the game, and Kordell Stewart drove the Steelers inside the 10 yard line, but on fourth and goal, Stewart was intercepted by Reggie Stephens to effectively end any remaining hope the Steelers had. Collins then drove the Giants down the field and threw an insurance touchdown to Amani Toomer to make it 30–3.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15 (Sunday December 10, 2000): at New York Giants
The loss put the Steelers at a major disadvantage in the AFC playoff race. With the Steelers at 7-7, the Titans having clinched the division, and the Steelers two games behind the #6 wild card spot in the AFC, the Steelers would have to win out and get major help from other teams in order to qualify for the playoffs.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17 (Sunday December 24, 2000): at San Diego Chargers
Heading into the last Sunday of the 2000 season, the Steelers needed a win, a Jets loss, and a Colts loss in order to earn the last available Wild Card berth in the AFC playoffs. With the Jets losing to the Ravens in a 1:00 game, the Steelers were still alive when their matchup with the 1–14 Chargers started.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17 (Sunday December 24, 2000): at San Diego Chargers
Early on in the game, the Chargers demonstrated the potential for an upset bid. On the Chargers's first play from scrimmage, quarterback Ryan Leaf threw a 71-yard touchdown to Jeff Graham, and while Steelers kick returner Will Blackwell answered with a 98 yard kickoff return for a touchdown on the next play, the Chargers held a 14-7 lead after one quarter with Rodney Harrison returning a Kordell Stewart interception 63 yards for a touchdown. However, the Steelers scored 17 unanswered points in the second quarter and never relinquished the lead.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17 (Sunday December 24, 2000): at San Diego Chargers
Although Stewart's passing statistics were relatively pedestrian (16-32, 190 yards, and 1 touchdown against 2 interceptions), he ran for 91 yards and 2 touchdowns, and the Steelers held the Chargers to less than 200 yards of total offense while sacking Ryan Leaf six times.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17 (Sunday December 24, 2000): at San Diego Chargers
Other than the aforementioned touchdown on the first play, Leaf played poorly as usual, going 15-29 for 171 yards with a touchdown and an interception, giving him only 100 yards passing after his first play. To top it off, he lost a fumble on the last Chargers possession, which turned out to be his last snap as a Charger. Following the game, Leaf stormed out of the locker room without speaking with reporters.


2000 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17 (Sunday December 24, 2000): at San Diego Chargers
Although the Steelers did their part in winning against the hapless Chargers, the Colts got a big break with their matchup against the Vikings. With the Giants having clinched the #1 seed in the NFC the previous day and the Saints having clinched the NFC West with a worse record than the Vikings, the Vikings could not advance their playoff seed in the playoffs. As a result, the Vikings rested many of their starters (including Daunte Culpepper and Randy Moss) after the first quarter of their game against the Colts, and the Colts capitalized with an easy 31–10 win. This result meant that the Steelers would fail to qualify for the playoffs for the third consecutive season.


2000 Plaid Cymru leadership election
The 2000 Plaid Cymru leadership election was held following the resignation on health grounds of Dafydd Wigley.


2000 Plaid Cymru leadership election
Wigley had led the party since 1991 and saw them make a surprise breakthrough in the 1999 Assembly elections winning 17 seats and almost a third of the popular vote.


2000 Plaid Cymru leadership election
The role of leader, at this point, was combined with the role of Party President.


2000 Plaid Cymru leadership election
Three candidates stood. MEP for Wales Jill Evans, Ynys Mon AM and MP Ieuan Wyn Jones and Llanelli AM Helen Mary Jones


2000 Plaid Cymru leadership election
The contest was won by Ieuan Wyn Jones with 77.6% of the vote in the first round.


2000 Players Championship
The 2000 Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour, held March 23–27 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville. It was the 27th Players Championship.


2000 Players Championship
Hal Sutton, the champion seventeen years earlier in 1983, led by a stroke after each round and won his second Players, a stroke ahead of runner-up Tiger Woods. Both carded scores of 71 (−1) in the final round, and Sutton hit 17 of 18 greens in regulation. Because of thunderstorms and heavy rain, the final round was completed on Monday, March 27. In the last pairing, Sutton and Woods were on the twelfth hole when play was suspended on Sunday night.


2000 Players Championship
Late in the third round on Saturday, Sutton had gone 25 holes without making a bogey. At the par-3 17th hole, he hit his tee shot in the water and took a triple-bogey six, which trimmed his lead over Woods to just one stroke.


2000 Players Championship
Traditionally the richest event in golf, this was the first Players with a seven-figure winner's share, at $1.08 million. Sutton's win in 1983 was the first Players with a six-figure first prize. Woods won the event the following year.


2000 Players Championship
Defending champion David Duval finished nine strokes back, in a tie for thirteenth place.


2000 Players Championship, Venue
This was the 19th Players Championship held at the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course and it remained at 7,093 yards (6,486 m).


2000 Players Championship, Field
Fulton Allem, Robert Allenby, Stephen Ames, Billy Andrade, Stuart Appleby, Tommy Armour III, Woody Austin, Paul Azinger, Craig Barlow, Doug Barron, Rich Beem, Notah Begay III, Thomas Bjørn, Ronnie Black, Jay Don Blake, Eric Booker, Mike Brisky, Mark Brooks, Olin Browne, Tom Byrum, Mark Calcavecchia, Jim Carter, Greg Chalmers, Brandel Chamblee, Barry Cheesman, Stewart Cink, Darren Clarke, Russ Cochran, John Cook, Fred Couples, Ben Crenshaw, John Daly, Robert Damron, Glen Day, Jay Delsing, Chris DiMarco, Trevor Dodds, Scott Dunlap, David Duval, Ernie Els, Bob Estes, Brad Fabel, Nick Faldo, Brad Faxon, Steve Flesch, Dan Forsman, Carlos Franco, Harrison Frazar, David Frost, Fred Funk, Jim Furyk, Sergio García, Brent Geiberger, Bill Glasson, Matt Gogel, Retief Goosen, Paul Goydos, Wayne Grady, Scott Gump, Jay Haas, Dudley Hart, J. P. Hayes, Nolan Henke, Brian Henninger, Tim Herron, Gabriel Hjertstedt, Scott Hoch, Bradley Hughes, John Huston, Lee Janzen, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Steve Jones, Jonathan Kaye, Jerry Kelly, Skip Kendall, Tom Kite, Greg Kraft, Bernhard Langer, Franklin Langham, Paul Lawrie, Tom Lehman, Justin Leonard, J. L. Lewis, Frank Lickliter, Davis Love III, Steve Lowery, Andrew Magee, Jeff Maggert, John Maginnes, Shigeki Maruyama, Len Mattiace, Billy Mayfair, Scott McCarron, Rocco Mediate, Phil Mickelson, Larry Mize, Colin Montgomerie, Greg Norman, Mark O'Meara, José María Olazábal, Naomichi Ozaki, Jesper Parnevik, Craig Parry, Steve Pate, Dennis Paulson, Corey Pavin, Tom Pernice Jr., Chris Perry, Kenny Perry, Nick Price, Dicky Pride, Tom Purtzer, Charles Raulerson, Mike Reid, Chris Riley, Loren Roberts, Rory Sabbatini, Tom Scherrer, Joey Sindelar, Vijay Singh, Jeff Sluman, Craig Stadler, Paul Stankowski, Steve Stricker, David Sutherland, Kevin Sutherland, Hal Sutton, Esteban Toledo, Tommy Tolles, David Toms, Kirk Triplett, Ted Tryba, Bob Tway, Omar Uresti, Jean van de Velde, Scott Verplank, Duffy Waldorf, Brian Watts, Mike Weir, Kevin Wentworth, Lee Westwood, Mark Wiebe, Tiger Woods, Ian Woosnam


2000 Plus
2000 Plus (aka Two Thousand Plus and 2000+) was an American old-time radio series that ran on the Mutual Broadcasting System from March 15, 1950, to January 2, 1952, in various 30-minute time slots. A Dryer Weenolsen production, it was the first adult science fiction series on radio, airing one month prior to the better-known Dimension X.


2000 Plus
2000 Plus was an anthology program, using all-new material rather than adapting published stories. The series was the creation of Sherman H. Dryer (1913–1989) who scripted and produced the series with Robert Weenolsen (1900–1979).


2000 Plus, Cast
Dryer directed cast members Lon Clark, Joseph Julian, Henry Norell, Bill Keene, Bryna Raeburn and Amzie Strickland and others. Emerson Buckley conducted the music composed by Elliott Jacoby. Ken Marvin was the program's announcer, and the sound effects were by Adrian Penner.


2000 Plus, Cast
The nature of the series is indicated in the titles of 1950 episodes: "The Brooklyn Brain", "The Flying Saucers", "The Robot Killer", "Rocket and the Skull", "A Veteran Comes Home", "Men from Mars", "When the Machines Went Wild", "When the Worlds Met", "The Insect", "Silent Noise", "The Green Thing", "The Giant Walks", and "Worlds Apart". There are 32 known episodes, and only some of these – up to 15 (or, perhaps, more) – have survived.


2000 Plymouth City Council election
The 2000 Plymouth City Council election was held on 4 May 2000 to elect members of Plymouth City Council in England. This was on the same day as the other local elections. The entire council was up for election and the Conservative Party gained control of the council from the Labour Party.


2000 Pocono 500
The 2000 Pocono 500 was the fifteenth stock car race of the 2000 NASCAR Winston Cup Series. It was scheduled for June 18, 2000, but was held on June 19, 2000 due to inclement weather at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. The 200-lap race was won by Jeremy Mayfield for the Penske Racing team. Dale Jarrett finished second and his Robert Yates Racing teammate Ricky Rudd came in third.


2000 Pocono 500
The race, originally scheduled for June 18, was delayed to June 19 due to persistent rain and enveloping fog. Mayfield won the race by bumping Earnhardt out of the way on the last corner of the last lap.


2000 Pocono 500
There were five cautions and twenty-four lead changes among eleven different drivers during the course of the race. The result left Bobby Labonte in first position in the Drivers' Championship, fifty-seven points ahead of second-place driver Dale Earnhardt and one-hundred and fifteen ahead of Dale Jarrett.


2000 Pocono 500, Report, Background
Pocono Raceway is one of six superspeedways to hold NASCAR races; the others are Daytona International Speedway, Michigan International Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway. The standard track at Pocono Raceway is a three-turn superspeedway that is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long. The track's turns are banked differently; the first is banked at 14°, the second turn at 8° and the final turn with 6°. However, each of the three straightaways are banked at 2°.


2000 Pocono 500, Report, Background
Before the race, Bobby Labonte led the Drivers' Championship with 2,116 points, and Dale Earnhardt stood in second with 2,018 points. Ward Burton was third in the Drivers' Championship with 2,014 points, Dale Jarrett was fourth with 1,955 points, and Jeff Burton was in fifth with 1,868 points. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Ford was leading with 95 points, nine points ahead of their rival Pontiac. Chevrolet was in third with 82 points.


2000 Pocono 500, Race recap
The race, the fifteenth race out of a total of thirty-four in the season, was due to commence at 1 p.m. EDT on June 18. NASCAR officials postponed the race to 10 a.m. EDT on June 19 as persistent rain and a layer of fog obscured parts of the speedway. The race was televised live on TNN.


2000 Polish Figure Skating Championships
The 2000 Polish Figure Skating Championships (Polish: Mistrzostwa Polski w łyżwiarstwie figurowym 1999/2000) were the Polish Figure Skating Championships of the 1999/2000 figure skating season. The Polish Championships are held annually to determine the National Champions of Poland. They were held in Warsaw, between January 14 and January 16, 2000.


2000 Polish Film Awards
The 2000 Polish Film Awards was the 2nd edition of Polish Film Awards: Eagles.


2000 Polish presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Poland on 8 October 2000. Incumbent President Aleksander Kwaśniewski was easily re-elected in the first round with more than 50% of the vote.


2000 Polish presidential election, Background
President Kwaśniewski was seen as very likely to win re-election in the run up to the presidential election with polls showing that his popularity was high as 70% support. His main challenger was expected to be Marian Krzaklewski from the Solidarity Electoral Action, which had formed the government since winning the last parliamentary elections in 1997. The other main candidate was a former Foreign Minister and more liberal conservative Andrzej Olechowski, who won support from voters who were discontented with both of the other main candidates and in particular younger voters, businessmen and intellectuals.


2000 Polish presidential election, Background
Candidates seen as having less of a chance included Andrzej Lepper, a populist farmers leader who opposed entry into the European Union and former president Lech Wałęsa. Wałęsa was rejected as the candidate for the Solidarity party he had won the presidency for, and thus ran separately in the election.


2000 Polish presidential election, Background
In order to be elected in the first round a candidate had to gain over 50% of the vote. If no candidate reached this level, then a second round would have been held between the top two candidates. As the campaign continued, the biggest question in the election was whether or not incumbent President Kwaśniewski would win the 50% required to avoid a second round.


2000 Polish presidential election, Background
In the August before the election Kwaśniewski and another former president and candidate Lech Wałęsa were investigated by a court on allegations that they had been informers for the Communist secret police. If they had been found guilty they could have been banned from seeking election to political office for 10 years. However they both claimed that the evidence had been manipulated by political opponents and were cleared by the court.


2000 Polish presidential election, Background
Solidarity candidate Krzaklewski attacked Kwaśniewski for his past as a Communist party activist. However opinion polls in August showed this had little effect with Kwaśniewski well ahead with over 60% support, while Krzaklewski was second and Olechowski third, but both a long way behind. President Kwaśniewski's campaign focused on reconciling all of Poland with slogans including "Poland, our common home". Most voters felt he had done well as President and he was seen as having done a good job in guiding Poland to membership of NATO.


2000 Polish presidential election, Background
Krzaklewski's popularity was not high due to the infighting in the government led by his Solidarity party since they had won the 1997 parliamentary election. Meanwhile, Lech Wałęsa trailed badly in the polls with only about 2% support, which Wałęsa saw as being due to voters seeing him as being responsible for the pain involved in the transition from communism.


2000 Polish presidential election, Background
In the election 3 candidates ran on platforms against the European Union. During the campaign one of them, Andrzej Lepper, was arrested for illegally blocking a customs post, however he claimed that this was an attempt to sabotage his campaign.


2000 Polish presidential election, Background
As the election neared Kwaśniewski dropped in the polls and it became uncertain whether he would win the 50% required to avoid a second round. This followed a television advertisement from Solidarity candidate Krzaklewski in which Kwaśniewski was accused of having mocked Pope John Paul II. The video showed Kwaśniewski apparently urging his security advisor to kiss the ground is a parody of the Pope, although Kwaśniewski claimed this was inaccurate. At least one poll showed Kwaśniewski's support having dropped by 10% in one week following this, however it was the other main candidate, Andrzej Olechowski, who benefited as Krzaklewski was seen as being tarnished for having run a negative campaign.


2000 Polish presidential election, Candidates
There was no second round since Aleksander Kwaśniewski got over 50% in the first round.


2000 Polish presidential election, Candidates
Member of the Sejm Dariusz Grabowski (Coalition for Poland), 50


2000 Polish presidential election, Candidates
Member of the Sejm Piotr Ikonowicz (Polish Socialist Party), 44


2000 Polish presidential election, Candidates
Former Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kalinowski (Polish People's Party), 38


2000 Polish presidential election, Candidates
Former Member of the Sejm Janusz Korwin-Mikke (Real Politics Union), 57


2000 Polish presidential election, Candidates
Chairman of NSZZ Solidarity Marian Krzaklewski (Solidarity Electoral Action), 50


2000 Polish presidential election, Results
Incumbent President Kwaśniewski won the election in the first round receiving almost 54% of the vote. Independent Andrzej Olechowski came second beating Solidarity candidate Krzaklewski into third place. Meanwhile, former President Lech Wałęsa only won 1% of the vote and following the election stood down as leader of his small Christian Democratic party.


2000 Polynesia Cup
The Polynesia Cup 2000 was the third Polynesia-wide football tournament ever held. It took place in Tahiti and five teams participated: Tahiti, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga and Cook Islands and server for the third time as Oceania Nations Cup qualifyer.


2000 Polynesia Cup
The teams played each other according to a round-robin format with Tahiti winning the tournament for the third time and qualifying to the Oceania Nations Cup 2000 along with Cook Islands.


2000 Polynesia Cup, Results
Tahiti and  Cook Islands qualified for Oceania Nations Cup 2000


2000 Polynesian Championships in Athletics
The 2000 Polynesian Championships in Athletics took place in 2000. The event was held in Apia, Samoa.


2000 Polynesian Championships in Athletics
A total of 32 events were contested, 18 by men and 14 by women.


2000 Polynesian Championships in Athletics, Medal summary
Medal winners and their results were published on the Athletics Weekly webpage.


2000 Pontins Professional
The 2000 Pontins Professional was a professional invitational snooker tournament which took place in May 2000 in Prestatyn, Wales.


2000 Pontins Professional
The tournament featured eight professional players. The quarter-final matches were contested over the best of 9 frames, the semi-finals best of eleven and the final best of seventeen.


2000 Pontins Professional
The 2000 tournament was the twenty-seventh and final edition of the Pontins Professional, the series being discontinued thereafter.


2000 Pontins Professional
Darren Morgan won the event, beating Jimmy White 9–2 in the final.


2000 Pop Cola 800s season
The 2000 Pop Cola 800s season was the 11th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). Known as Sunkist Orange Juicers in the Commissioner's Cup and Pop Cola Panthers in the Governor's Cup


2000 Pop Cola 800s season, Occurrences
Coach Chot Reyes, whose last coaching stint in the PBA was with Sta.Lucia in 1997, was named the new Pop Cola head coach at the start of the season, he replaces Norman Black, who has moved over to Sta.Lucia Realtors. The Pop Cola coaching staff was completed with the hiring of assistant coaches Binky Favis and former MBA mentor Biboy Ravanes. The team's original choice as Reyes' deputy, Aric del Rosario, choose to concentrate on other fields.


2000 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix
The 2000 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Filderstadt Tennis Club in Filderstadt, Germany that was part of Tier II of the 2000 WTA Tour. It was the 23rd edition of the tournament and was held from 2 October until 8 October 2000. First-seeded Martina Hingis won the singles title and earned $87,000 first-prize money.


2000 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Finals, Doubles
Martina Hingis /  Anna Kournikova defeated  Arantxa Sánchez Vicario /  Barbara Schett 6–4, 6–2


2000 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix – Doubles
Chanda Rubin and Sandrine Testud were the defending champions, but Testud could not compete this year after suffering a stress fracture in her rib during the 2000 Summer Olympics. Rubin teamed up with Magüi Serna and lost in first round to Alexandra Fusai and Nathalie Tauziat.


2000 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix – Doubles
Martina Hingis and Anna Kournikova won the title by defeating Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Barbara Schett 6–4, 6–2 in the final.


2000 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix – Singles
Martina Hingis was the defending champion and successfully defended her title, by defeating Kim Clijsters 6–0, 6–3 in the final. She received a Porsche Boxster-S as a prize.


2000 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix – Singles, Seeds
The first four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2000 Port Darwin by-election
A by-election for the seat of Port Darwin in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly was held on 11 March 2000. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of former CLP Chief Minister Shane Stone. The seat had been held by Stone since 1990.


2000 Port Darwin by-election
The CLP selected Sue Carter as its candidate. The Labor candidate was Ian Fraser. Former Labor candidate for Fannie Bay Susan Bradley contested as an Independent.


2000 Portland Fire season
The 2000 WNBA season was the 1st season for the Portland Fire.


2000 Portland, Oregon mayoral election
The 2000 Portland mayoral election was held on May 16, 2000, to elect the mayor of Portland. Incumbent mayor Vera Katz was re-elected to a third term.


2000 Portland, Oregon mayoral election
Portland uses a nonpartisan system for local elections, in which all voters are eligible to participate. All candidates are listed on the ballot without any political party affiliation.


2000 Portland, Oregon mayoral election
All candidates meeting the qualifications competed in a blanket primary election on May 16, 2000. Because Katz received a majority of the vote in the primary, no runoff election in November was necessary.


2000 Portland, Oregon mayoral election, Results
Katz defeated Jake Oken-Berg, a 19-year-old student and political unknown who received a surprising 27% of the vote and almost forced a runoff, as well as 15 other candidates, who, combined, received approximately 18% of the vote.


2000 Portsmouth City Council election
Elections to Portsmouth City Council were held on 4 May 2000. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour Party lost overall control of the council to no overall control.


2000 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2000 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix was the twelfth round of the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 3 September 2000 at Estoril.


2000 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix
This was the first Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix since 1987. It was previously a one-off race held in Spain.


2000 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (500cc)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round twelve has concluded.


2000 Portuguese regional elections
The Portuguese Autonomous Regions of Azores and Madeira held their own Regional Legislative election of 2000 on October 15.


2000 Portuguese regional elections
In the Azores, there were 52 seats in the Regional Parliament in dispute, the same of the previous election, in 1996. The seats were distributed by the 9 islands of the archipelago proportionally to the population of each island; however, each island is entitled to at least two members of parliament.


2000 Portuguese regional elections
In Madeira, there were 61 seats in dispute, two more than in the previous election, distributed by the 11 municipalities of the archipelago proportionally to the population of each municipality.


2000 Portuguese regional elections
The Socialist Party won the election in Azores for the second consecutive time, increasing the voting share by 3% to 49% of the voting and re-electing Carlos César to the presidency of the Regional Government. The Social Democrats lost many mandates, which made César achieve an absolute majority.


2000 Portuguese regional elections
In Madeira, Alberto João Jardim, of the Social Democratic Party kept his dominance over the regional political panorama, winning the election with an absolute majority of 56%, losing only 1% of the voting and achieving the 7th consecutive absolute majority since the very first election in 1976. The two extra mandates were distributed by the People's Party and the People's Democratic Union.


2000 Portuguese regional elections, The election in Azores
The winner of the election was the Socialist Party, that for the second time achieved the majority of the voting, this time an absolute majority. Carlos Manuel Martins do Vale César was re-elected president of the Regional Government with a parliamentary support of 30 MPs out of 52.


2000 Portuguese regional elections, The election in Azores
The People's Party, despite raising the share of the voting by more than 2%, lost 1 MP, due to the application of the d'Hondt method by the 9 islands, the Social Democrats lost almost 10% of the voting and 6 MPs. The People's Monarchist Party, that hadn't participated in the previous election, ran in coalition with the Democratic Party of the Atlantic and didn't elect a single MP.


2000 Portuguese regional elections, The election in Azores
On the left, the Unitarian Democratic Coalition, led by the Portuguese Communist Party raised the voting by 1% and achieved one more MP, elected in the island of Faial. The People's Democratic Union, after merging with several other small left-wing parties, ran inside the Leftwing Bloc and didn't manage to elect a single MP.


2000 Portuguese regional elections, The election in Madeira
The winner of the election in Madeira was, once more, the Social Democratic Party, and Alberto João Jardim was elected president of the Regional Government with an absolute majority for the 7th consecutive time. The percentage gathered by the social democrats decreased by 1%, however, due to the increase of the overall number of MPs, the party kept their 41 mandates.


2000 Portuguese regional elections, The election in Madeira
The People's Party increased its voting and its number of MPs, gathering a total of 3 mandates.


2000 Portuguese regional elections, The election in Madeira
On the left, the Socialist Party kept its 13 MPs after, despite losing more than 3% of the voting. The Unitarian Democratic Coalition, led by the Portuguese Communist Party, increased the voting and kept the 2 Mps of the previous election. The People's Democratic Union raised the number of MPs from 1 to 2 after a slight increase of the voting.


2000 Preakness Stakes
The 2000 Preakness Stakes was the 125th running of the Preakness Stakes thoroughbred horse race. The race took place on May 20, 2000, and was televised in the United States on the ABC television network. Red Bullet, who was jockeyed by Jerry Bailey, won the race three and three quarter lengths over runner-up Fusaichi Pegasus. Approximate post time was 5:28 p.m. Eastern Time. The race was run over a track listed as good in a final time of 1:56.04. The Maryland Jockey Club reported total attendance of 111,821, this is recorded as second highest on the list of American thoroughbred racing top attended events for North America in 2000.


2000 Premier League Snooker
The 2000 Altodigital.com Premier League was a  professional non-ranking snooker tournament that was played from 8 January to 6 May 2000.


2000 Premier League Snooker
Stephen Hendry won in the final 9–5 against Mark Williams.


2000 Premier League Snooker
Hendry made his 500th career century in his match against Ronnie O'Sullivan at Stirling on 2 April.


2000 Premier League Snooker, League phase
Top four qualified for the play-offs. If points were level then most frames won determined their positions. If two players had an identical record then the result in their match determined their positions. If that ended 4–4 then the player who got to four first was higher.


2000 Premier League speedway season
The 2000 Premier League speedway season was the second division of speedway in the United Kingdom and governed by the Speedway Control Board (SCB), in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association (BSPA).


2000 Premier League speedway season, Season summary
The League consisted of 14 teams for the 2000 season with the addition of the Hull Vikings who dropped down from the Elite League.


2000 Premier League speedway season, Season summary
The League was run on a standard format with no play-offs and was won by Exeter Falcons.


2000 Premier League speedway season, Premier League Knockout Cup
The 2000 Premier League Knockout Cup was the 33rd edition of the Knockout Cup for tier two teams. Swindon Robins were the winners of the competition.


2000 Premier League speedway season, Premier League Knockout Cup, Final
Swindon were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 101–79.


2000 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election
An election of the President of the Senate of the Czech Republic was held on 16 December 2000. Petr Pithart was elected the new President of the Senate.


2000 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election, Background and voting
Four-Coalition was successful in 2000 senate election. Four-Coalition decided to nominate its candidate for the Senate President. Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party suggested Petr Pithart or Zuzana Roithová. Freedom Union supported Josef Zieleniec and Civic Democratic Alliance suggested Josef Jařab. Four-Coalition eventually nominated Pithart. Pithart narrowly beaten Zieleniec in a voting within Four-Coalition Senate faction.


2000 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election, Background and voting
Election was held on 19 December 2000. Pithart was the only candidate. He received 50 votes of 79.


2000 President's Cup (tennis)
The 2000 President's Cup was a men's tennis tournament played on Hard in Tashkent, Uzbekistan that was part of the International Series of the 2000 ATP Tour. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and was held from 11 September – 17 September.


2000 President's Cup (tennis), Champions, Doubles
Justin Gimelstob /  Scott Humphries def. Marius Barnard /  Robbie Koenig, 6–3, 6–2.


2000 President's Cup – Doubles
The 2000 President's Cup was a men's tennis tournament played on Hard in Tashkent, Uzbekistan that was part of the International Series of the 2000 ATP Tour. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and was held from 11 September – 17 September.


2000 President's Cup – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


2000 President's Cup – Singles
The 2000 President's Cup was a men's tennis tournament played on Hard in Tashkent, Uzbekistan that was part of the International Series of the 2000 ATP Tour. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and was held from 11 September – 17 September.


2000 President's Cup – Singles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


2000 Presidents Cup
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2000 Presidents Cup
The 4th Presidents Cup was held between October 19 and 22, 2000. It was played at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia, U.S. The United States team won the competition by a margin of 211⁄2–101⁄2. The honorary chairman was American President Bill Clinton.


2000 Presidents Cup, Format
Both teams had 12 players plus a non-playing captain. The competition was four days long unlike the past three tournaments where there were three days of competition. The same number of matches were still played though. On the first day foursomes were played. On the second day four-ball and foursomes was played. On the third day four-ball was played. On the fourth and final day singles were played.


2000 Presidents Cup, Individual player records
Each entry refers to the Win–Loss–Half record of the player.


2000 Preston Borough Council election
Elections to Preston Borough Council were held on 7 May 2000. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.


2000 Preston Borough Council election, Ward results
This election was the last to be held before a boundary review increased the number of electoral wards and redistributed the councillors.


2000 Preston by-election
The 2000 Preston by-election was a parliamentary by-election held in England on 23 November 2000, to elect a new Member of Parliament (MP) for the House of Commons constituency of Preston in Lancashire.


2000 Preston by-election
The vacancy was caused by the death on 2 September 2000 of Audrey Wise, the constituency's Labour Party MP.


2000 Preston by-election
The Labour vote share declined, but with the main beneficiaries being fringe parties, the Labour candidate Mark Hendrick held the seat comfortably.


2000 Preston by-election
Peter Garrett used the description "Preston Christian Alliance". David Braid used the description "Battle for Britain"


2000 Primera B de Chile
The 2000 Primera B de Chile was the 50th completed season of the Primera B de Chile.


2000 Primera División of Chile
The 2000 Campeonato Nacional, known as Campeonato Nacional Copa Banco del Estado 2000 for sponsorship purposes, was the 69th season of top-flight football in Chile. Universidad de Chile won their 11th title. Cobreloa and Deportes Concepción -as Liguilla winners-, also qualified for the next Copa Libertadores.