2003 Port of Oakland dock protest, Reverberations
Criminal charges against 24 activists and one longshoreman were brought and later dropped, and in February, 2005 the Oakland City Council paid $154,000 to 24 people who claimed they were hurt in the demonstration. In 2006, The New York Times reported upon an over $2 million settlement for "dozens of payouts" stemming from the incident, the reported size of the awards from the City ranging from $5,000 to $500,000.


2003 Portland Timbers season
The 2003 Portland Timbers season was the 3rd season for the Portland Timbers—the 3rd incarnation of a club to bear the Timbers name—of the now-defuntct A-League, the second-tier league of the United States and Canada at the time.


2003 Portland Timbers season, Competitions, A-League, Results summary
Source: Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  T = Matches tied;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference


2003 Portland Timbers season, Squad, Final roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2003 Portland Timbers season, Squad, Statistics, Appearances and goals
All players contracted to the club during the season included.


2003 Portsmouth City Council election
Elections to Portsmouth City Council were held on 1 May 2003. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. Overall turnout was 26.6%.


2003 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2003 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 2003 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 5–7 September 2003 at the Autódromo do Estoril.


2003 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (motoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round eleven has concluded.


2003 Preakness Stakes
The 2003 Preakness Stakes was the 128th running of the Preakness Stakes thoroughbred horse race. The race took place on May 17, 2003, and was televised in the United States on the NBC television network. Funny Cide, who was jockeyed by José A. Santos, won the race by nine and three quarter lengths over runner-up Midway Road. Approximate post time was 6:14 p.m. Eastern Time. The race was run over a track listed as good in a final time of 1:55.61. The Maryland Jockey Club reported total attendance of 109,931, this is recorded as second highest on the list of American thoroughbred racing top attended events for North America in 2003.


2003 Premier League Snooker
The 2003 Hasseröder Premier League was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that was played from 11 January to 11 May 2003.


2003 Premier League Snooker
Marco Fu won in the final 9–5 against Mark Williams.


2003 Premier League Snooker, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


2003 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. (Breaks above 50 shown between (parentheses); century breaks are indicated with bold.)


2003 Premier League Snooker, Play-offs
*58–69, 83–25, 24–66, (63) 75–8, 9-(67), 0–98 (57), 72–60 (53), 39–80 (55), (67)-(60), 42–61**(58) 73–26, (80)-(52), (100) 104–32, 23–82 (57), (54) 74–57, 49–57, (56) 71–48, 59–32***(59) 83–22, 44–82, 68-(57), 50–65, 0-(138'), 69–52, 0–113 (99), 0–66 (65), (103)-0, (57) 58–33, (71) 85–49, 80–30, (51) 52–11, (66) 78–0


2003 Premier League speedway season
The 2003 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).


2003 Premier League speedway season, Season summary
The League consisted of 18 teams for the 2003 season with the addition of the King's Lynn Stars who dropped down from the Elite League.


2003 Premier League speedway season, Season summary
The League was run on a standard format with no play-offs and was won by Edinburgh Monarchs.


2003 Premier League speedway season, Premier League Knockout Cup
The 2003 Premier League Knockout Cup was the 36th edition of the Knockout Cup for tier two teams. Isle of Wight Islanders  were the winners of the competition.


2003 Premier League speedway season, Premier League Knockout Cup, Final
Isle of Wight were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 95–91.


2003 Presidents Cup
The 5th Presidents Cup was held 20–23 November 2003 at the Links Course at Fancourt Hotel and Country Club in George, Western Cape, South Africa. The United States and International team tied the competition 17–17, and after three tied playoff holes between Tiger Woods and Ernie Els, it was decided that the Cup would be shared by agreement of the captains and players. The honorary chairman was South African President Thabo Mbeki. The event was originally scheduled to be held in autumn 2002 before the 2001 Ryder Cup was postponed to 2002 due to the September 11 attacks in the United States.


2003 Presidents Cup, Format
Both teams had 12 players and a non-playing captain. The competition was four days long with 34 matches worth a single point each. Six foursome matches were played on the first day. On the second day, five four-ball matches were played in the morning and five foursome matches were played in the afternoon. On the third day, six four-ball matches were played. The competition concluded with twelve singles matches on the final day.


2003 Presidents Cup, Individual player records
Each entry refers to the Win–Loss–Half record of the player.


2003 Preston City Council election
This article details the results of Elections to Preston City Council held in May 2003


2003 Preston City Council election
Preston Council is elected "in thirds", which means in 2002 the entire council was up for election and in subsequent years one councillor from the three-member wards and one councillor from selected two-member wards defend their seat. In these result tables, the share of the vote is blank as the 2002 elections cannot be fairly compared. Any gain or loss can be recorded as each year the councillors are defending their ward results.


2003 Prime Minister's Cup
The 2003 Prime Minister's Cup was the inaugural national football cup competition in Laos. The competition was won by MCTPC FC (Ministry of Communication, Transportation and Construction), who beat Lao Army FC 2-1 in the final.


2003 Primera B de Chile
The 2003 Primera B de Chile was the 53rd completed season of the Primera B de Chile.


2003 Primera División of Chile
The 2003 Primera División de Chile season was both 73rd and 74th season of top-flight football in Chile.


2003 Primera División of Chile, Torneo Apertura
The 2003 Campeonato Nacional Apertura Copa Banco del Estado was the 73rd Chilean League top flight tournament, in which Cobreloa won its sixth league title after eight years.


2003 Primera División of Chile, Torneo Apertura, Qualification stage, Aggregate table
RepechajeSantiago Wanderers qualify to playoffs as best placed team despite having drawn with Unión San Felipe.


2003 Primera División of Chile, Pre-Copa Sudamericana 2003 Tournament
All sixteen first level teams took part in this tournament, plus -and only for this edition-, all sixteen second level teams took part as well. One of the qualified teams to the Copa Sudamericana coming from this division, Provincial Osorno.


2003 Primera División of Chile, Pre-Copa Sudamericana 2003 Tournament, Final round
Universidad Católica & Provincial Osorno qualified to 2003 Copa Sudamericana


2003 Primera División of Chile, Torneo Clausura
The 2003 Campeonato Nacional Clausura Copa Banco del Estado was the 74th Chilean League top flight tournament, in which Cobreloa won its seventh league title after beating Colo-Colo in the finals.


2003 Prince Edward Island Scott Tournament of Hearts
The 2003 Prince Edward Island Scott Tournament of Hearts, a women's curling event, was held January 17–20, at the Montague Curling Club in Montague, Prince Edward Island. The winning team was Team Suzanne Gaudet who represented Prince Edward Island, finished with a 10-1 round-robin record and finished 3rd overall in the page playoff at the 2003 Scott Tournament of Hearts in Kitchener, Ontario.


2003 Prince Edward Island general election
The 2003 Prince Edward Island general election was held on September 29, 2003 to elect the 27 members of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island. The election was called on September 2 by Premier Pat Binns, who enjoyed a high level of popularity among voters.


2003 Prince Edward Island general election
Polling took place on September 29, despite a blackout across two-thirds of the province and other damage caused by Hurricane Juan.


2003 Prince Edward Island general election
Binns' Progressive Conservatives were elected to a third consecutive majority government, the first time this had happened in Island history (for the Cons/PC party). The Premier, who ran in Murray River-Gaspereaux, was re-elected, along with his entire existing cabinet.


2003 Prince Edward Island general election
The Liberals wrested three seats from the Tories, increasing their standing to four seats. The party's new leader, Robert Ghiz, was one of those. The son of former premier Joe Ghiz beat Charlottetown mayor George MacDonald in the riding of Charlottetown-Rochford Square in Charlottetown.


2003 Prince Edward Island general election
The New Democrats did not win any seats; their leader, Gary Robichaud, was defeated by a Tory incumbent in Wilmot-Summerside.


2003 Princeton Tigers football team
The 2003 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University during the 2003 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Princeton finished second-to-last in the Ivy League.


2003 Princeton Tigers football team
In their fourth year under head coach Roger Hughes, the Tigers compiled a 2–8 record and were outscored 267 to 204. Tim Kirby and Dave Splitthoff were the team captains.


2003 Princeton Tigers football team
Princeton's 2–5 conference placed seventh in the Ivy League standings. The Tigers were outscored 181 to 175 by Ivy opponents.


2003 Princeton Tigers football team
The Tigers played their home games at Princeton Stadium, on the university campus in Princeton, New Jersey.


2003 Priority Telecom Open
The 2003 Priority Telecom Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Amersfoort, Netherlands that was part of the International Series of the 2003 ATP Tour. It was the 44th edition of the tournament and was held from 14 July until 20 July 2003. Seventh-seeded Nicolás Massú won the singles title.


2003 Priority Telecom Open, Finals, Doubles
Devin Bowen /  Ashley Fisher defeated  Chris Haggard /  André Sá 6–0, 6–4


2003 Priority Telecom Open – Doubles
Jeff Coetzee and Chris Haggard were the defending champions but only Haggard competed that year with André Sá.


2003 Priority Telecom Open – Doubles
Haggard and Sá lost in the final 6–0, 6–4 against Devin Bowen and Ashley Fisher.


2003 Priority Telecom Open – Singles
Juan Ignacio Chela was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo.


2003 Priority Telecom Open – Singles
Nicolás Massú won in the final 6–4, 7–6(7–3), 6–2 against Raemon Sluiter.


2003 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
The 2003 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe was a horse race held at Longchamp on Sunday 5 October 2003. It was the 82nd running of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.


2003 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
The winner was Dalakhani, a three-year-old colt trained in France by Alain de Royer-Dupré. The winning jockey was Christophe Soumillon.


2003 Pro Bowl
The 2003 Pro Bowl was the NFL's all-star game for the 2002 season. The game was played on February 2, 2003, at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The final Score was AFC 45, NFC 20. Ricky Williams of the Miami Dolphins was the game's MVP.


2003 Progressive Conservative leadership election
The 2003 Progressive Conservative leadership election was held on May 31, 2003 to elect a leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Peter MacKay was elected as leader to replace former Prime Minister Joe Clark, who then retired as party leader. In the end, five candidates emerged as challengers for the leadership by the convention date. Two other candidates had participated in the race but both withdrew as contestants before the vote. Quebec Member of Parliament (MP) André Bachand withdrew his candidacy from the race due to financial concerns and backed Peter MacKay. Former Cabinet Minister and Quebec MP Heward Grafftey also withdrew his candidacy from the race due to health concerns and backed David Orchard.


2003 Progressive Conservative leadership election
The results of the race produced immediate controversy when it emerged that winner Mackay had signed an agreement with David Orchard in order to get elected. This deal promised the party would review the Canadian-American Free Trade Agreement, and that it would not cooperate or merge with the Canadian Alliance. This controversy continued when MacKay ignored the agreement, and signed an agreement to merge his party with the Canadian Alliance to form the new Conservative Party of Canada. The merger was approved by party members in December 2003.


2003 Progressive Conservative leadership election, Results
Chandler withdrew before voting began to endorse Prentice. Estimates suggest that Chandler had six committed delegates from Calgary ridings who voted in favour of Prentice. After the second ballot, Brison dropped off and supported Prentice. Brison was the only candidate to gain votes on this ballot compared to his first ballot result; all of the other candidates lost votes. After the third ballot, Orchard threw his support to MacKay after the two men signed an agreement committing MacKay to not merge the PCs with the Canadian Alliance, and to hold a review of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.


2003 Proximus Diamond Games
The 2003 Proximus Diamond Games was a women's professional tennis tournament played on indoor s at the Sportpaleis in Antwerp, Belgium that was part of the Tier II category of the 2003 WTA Tour. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from 10 February until 16 February 2002. First-seeded Venus Williams won her second consecutive singles title at the event and earned $93,000 first-prize money.


2003 Proximus Diamond Games, Finals, Doubles
Kim Clijsters /  Ai Sugiyama defeated  Nathalie Dechy /  Émilie Loit, 6–2, 6–0


2003 Proximus Diamond Games – Doubles
Magdalena Maleeva and Patty Schnyder were the defending champions, but Maleeva did not compete this year, as she was competing in Doha at the same week. Schnyder teamed up with Maja Matevžič and lost in semifinals to Nathalie Dechy and Émilie Loit.


2003 Proximus Diamond Games – Doubles
Kim Clijsters and Ai Sugiyama won the title by defeating Nathalie Dechy and Émilie Loit 6–2, 6–0 in the final.


2003 Proximus Diamond Games – Singles
Venus Williams was the defending champion and successfully defended her title by defeating Kim Clijsters 6–2, 6–4 in the final.


2003 Proximus Diamond Games – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2003 Puerto Armuelles earthquake
The 2003 Puerto Armuelles earthquake occurred on December 25 at 02:11 local time (07:11 UTC). The epicenter was located in Panama, at about 7 km east of Puerto Armuelles, near the Panama-Costa Rica border. The earthquake had a magnitude of Mw 6.5. Two people were reported dead in Puerto Armuelles. There was building damage in Panama and Costa Rica. Power outage lasted for about four hours in Puerto Armuelles. The maximal intensity was MM VIII in Finca Naranjo, Costa Rica. The intensity was MM VII in Armuelles, Panama, and MM IV in Limón and the Central Valley, Costa Rica, including San José. This earthquake could also be felt in Panama City.


2003 Purbeck District Council election
Elections to Purbeck District Council were held on 1 May 2003. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team
The 2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team represented Purdue University in the 2003 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was coached by Joe Tiller and played its home games at Ross–Ade Stadium. Purdue played thirteen games in the 2003 season, finishing with a 9–4 record and a loss in the Capital One Bowl to Georgia.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Bowling Green State
A Purdue Boilermaker football team loaded with experience (8 senior starters on defense) entered 2003 with high expectations (#18 preseason ranking), but they suffered a stunning opening day 27-26 upset loss to the MAC's Bowling Green Falcons.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Bowling Green State
After Purdue took the season's opening drive for a touchdown (a jump-ball touchdown catch by 6' 9" freshman WR Kyle Ingraham), Bowling Green QB Josh Harris responded with outstanding clutch play, throwing for 350 yards and 3 touchdowns in the see-saw contest. Midway through the 4th quarter with Purdue leading 24–20, the Boilermaker offense could not take advantage of a DE Shaun Phillips interception. With under 3 minutes remaining, Harris drove the Falcons down the field to a 4th and 14 situation at the Purdue 32-yard line. In a play eerily similar to the 2002 "Holy Buckeye" play, Harris evaded a heavy rush to deliver a deep pass to WR Charles Sharon, who outfought 2 Purdue defenders to make the winning touchdown catch.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Bowling Green State
Purdue WR Taylor Stubblefield had 16 catches for 139 yards and caught his first-ever regular season touchdown in defeat, but had an unfortunate drop on the final drive that could have set up a game-tying FG attempt. Falcons WR Cole Magner ran out the last 8 seconds of the game clock by taking an intentional safety, bringing the score to its final tally.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Bowling Green State
Bowling Green would go on to have one of the best football seasons in program history, finishing 11–3 with a Motor City Bowl win over Northwestern. Purdue would emerge from this loss with a new determination that would bring success in the weeks ahead...


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest
Purdue rebounded from their opening day loss with a close win at #20 Wake Forest – which was ranked for the first time in 16 years after starting the season with two wins over ranked opponents.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest
Late in the close game with Purdue clinging to a 16–10 lead, the Deacons created an opportunity for victory by forcing a turnover on a punt return by Anthony Chambers. But the Purdue defense stopped Wake Forest on a 4th down running play thanks to a well-timed run blitz by All-American free safety Stuart Schweigert, who made a game-clinching tackle for loss. "Stu" earlier had set up a FG with an interception and long return on the game's first play from scrimmage.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest
Purdue kicker Ben Jones, a recent transfer from Butler University, made three important FGs that helped provide the final margin.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Arizona
After the Boilermakers had worn primarily gold uniforms at home in 2002, the Boilermakers were "Back in Black" for the first of a four-game homestand that began with the struggling Arizona Wildcats of the Pac-10. The Boilermakers dominated Arizona by a then-Ross–Ade Stadium record margin of 59–7. The offense outgained Arizona 580–174 in yards, achieving near perfect balance with 288 rushing and 292 passing. Redshirt freshman RB Jerome Brooks paced Purdue with 122 yards on the ground, and the Purdue defense sacked Arizona QBs 5 times; fifth-year senior LB Landon Johnson recovered a fumble and had an interception.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame
The Boilermakers improved to 3–1 and returned to the Top 25 with a win over their in-state rival Notre Dame. Purdue's senior-led defense continually pressured freshman QB Brady Quinn in his first college start with many knockdowns, and intercepted him 4 times (FS Stuart Schweigert had 2 picks). Still, Quinn managed to throw for 297 yards, but the Boilermaker defense made the Irish offense one-dimensional by limiting Julius Jones and the Irish running game to under 50 yards. The Irish defense played very well in defeat, holding Purdue to 223 yards of offense, but they could not force any Purdue turnovers.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame
The Boilermakers struck on their first drive with QB Kyle Orton's 36-yard touchdown pass to Ray Williams on a missed coverage assignment, then they turned LB Niko Koutouvides' interception into a FG for a 10–0 first quarter lead. The Irish pulled to 13–10 before the half on WR Maurice Stovall's 85-yard touchdown catch.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame
But the Irish did not score again. Quinn's third interception early in the 4th quarter was turned into a goal-line touchdown pass from Orton to DE Shaun Phillips, who lined up at TE on the play to provide the final 23–10 margin. It was Phillips' second career touchdown catch, duplicating his feat vs. Minnesota in 2002.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame
WR John Standeford became Purdue's all-time leader in receptions with 2 catches on the early touchdown drive. The record was short-lived however, as his teammate WR Taylor Stubblefield would shatter this mark in 2004.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Illinois
Purdue jumped all over their Homecoming opponent Illinois early and often in a 43–10 win in their Big Ten opener, bringing them to a 4–1 mark. The Boilermakers scored touchdowns on 4 of their first 5 drives to take a 27–0 lead by early in the 2nd quarter. Terrific protection by Nick Hardwick and the rest of the offensive line helped sophomore RB Jerod Void gain 119 yards rushing and 4 touchdowns. RB Jerome Brooks added 82 yards on the ground to help Purdue amass 300+ Team rushing yards.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Illinois
Purdue's veteran defense shined once again, limiting QB Jon Beutjer and the Illinois offense to 191 total yards and no touchdowns. The lone Fighting Illini touchdown came on a punt return by RB E.B. Halsey.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Penn State
Purdue improved to 5–1 with another solid defensive effort and a few terrific punt returns from Anthony Chambers, who returned one for a touchdown and set up 2 other touchdowns with long returns.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Penn State
Penn State sophomore quarterback Michael Robinson, filling in for injured QB Zach Mills, had a difficult day (10–32; 98 yards, 2 interceptions) at the hands of the Purdue defense, who limited PSU to 204 total yards. After Chambers' punt return touchdown made the score 17-7, Purdue's late first half drive was thwarted by CB Alan Zemaitis' 90-yard interception return, which set up a short Robinson touchdown pass to Isaac Smolko to cut Purdue's lead to 3. But the Nittany Lions would not score again.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Penn State
Starting RB Jerod Void was injured on his first run of the day on a tackle from LB Gino Capone. But Sophomore RB Brandon Jones was terrific in relief, physically pounding the young PSU defense with 149 yards on 29 carries, and scoring 2 goal-line touchdowns. Kicker Ben Jones missed his first FG of the season, but made his other 2 attempts, improving his early season tally to 9 FGs in 10 attempts.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin
In a Big Ten classic hosted by ESPN College Football Gameday, the Boilermakers became bowl-eligible for the seventh year in a row under Joe Tiller by prevailing over #14 Wisconsin, which had ended Ohio State's 19-game winning streak the previous week.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin
Though the Boilermakers played conservatively on offense most of 2003, this game was an exception as Purdue's offense went with a Drew Brees-era style by featuring the passing game. QB Kyle Orton completed his first 15 passes to masterfully engineer touchdown drives on Purdue's first 2 possessions for a 14–0 lead. But Wisconsin rallied with an Anthony Davis touchdown run and LB Jeff Mack's fumble return for touchdown to close the margin to 14–13 early in the second quarter (the Badgers missed an extra point).


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin
The Badgers kept Purdue out of the end zone the rest of the game, but Purdue did add 3 field goals to produce a 23–16 lead. With less than 3 minutes left, Wisconsin safety Jim Leonhard made a spectacular punt return touchdown to tie the game. But that's when Orton guided the Purdue offense on a winning drive, setting up a Ben Jones FG with 3 seconds left. Orton converted 2 3rd down and long passes on the drive, and then completed a deep pass to WR Ray Williams to set up the winning kick.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin
In defeat, Wisconsin LB Alex Lewis recorded an amazing 5 sacks and forced the fumble that Mack returned for a touchdown. In victory, the Purdue defense continued its terrific 2003 season by sacking Badger QBs 9 times (Shaun Phillips had 4.5), yielding only 12 first downs and less than 300 yards of offense, and forcing 2 turnovers (including an interception by senior CB Jacques Reeves on Wisconsin's first play).


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin
Kyle Orton completed his first 15 passes on the way to a 38–55; 411 yard performance. Senior WR John Standeford and junior WR Taylor Stubblefield combined to catch 30 passes for 314 yards. It was Stubblefield's second 16-catch performance of the season.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Michigan
Purdue's 6 game winning streak came to a decisive end in Ann Arbor, dropping to 6–2 against the supremely talented and eventual Big Ten champion #13 Michigan Wolverines. From start to finish, the Purdue offense was bullied, harassed and roughed-up by an ultra-aggressive Michigan defense that employed numerous blitzing schemes (7 sacks) and press "bump and run" coverage to limit the Boilermakers to only 242 yards of offense.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Michigan
Despite being dominated, Purdue had a chance to seize momentum late in the first half when the Boilers recovered a fumble from a Shaun Phillips sack of Michigan QB John Navarre. QB Kyle Orton quickly moved the Purdue offense to a first and goal, but then threw an end zone interception to CB Leon Hall, the first of 2 picks for the freshman playing for an injured Marlin Jackson.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Michigan
The Michigan offense had a solid (but not dominant) day against the stout Purdue defense, as senior RB Chris Perry grinded out 95 yards on 28 carries. The terrific trio of Michigan WRs (Braylon Edwards, Jason Avant and Steve Breaston) each made valuable contributions. Avant had 5 catches for 90 yards, Breaston took an end-around 21 yards for a score, and Edwards had 6 catches for 86 yards and 2 scores, including a highlight-reel third-quarter touchdown catch over CB Jacques Reeves that put the game out of reach.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Michigan
Purdue coach Joe Tiller praised the Michigan receiving corps before and after the game as "the best... (he had) ever seen." He also expressed a respect for what he referred to as the "creatures" on the Wolverine defense.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Northwestern
The Boilermakers returned home and to their winning formula of ball control running, play-action passing and turnover-producing defense to bounce back from the nightmare in Ann Arbor, defeating the solid Northwestern Wildcats 34-14 to improve to 7-2 and stay in the hunt for a share of the Big Ten title.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Northwestern
The Wildcats had excelled at ball security with an NCAA-low 2 lost fumbles, but they came apart against the Purdue defense by losing 4 fumbles. Two of these were turned into first quarter touchdowns by the Boilermaker offense, led by an efficient Kyle Orton (14-24; 212 yards, 1 rushing touchdown). Late in the 3rd quarter, after the Purdue defense had stopped Northwestern on a goal line stand, the Boilermakers embarked on a 98-yard touchdown drive that ended with RB Jerod Void's 2nd touchdown run to effectively put the game away.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Northwestern
Senior WR John Standeford set the Big Ten career receiving yards record in this game, getting a brief ovation after a 31 yard catch in the 4th quarter.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Iowa
On a Senior Day clash with a defense every bit as strong as their own, #14 Purdue scored a surprisingly decisive 27–14 win over #10 Iowa to improve to 8–2 – Purdue's best record this late into the season since 1979. Boilermaker sophomore RB Jerod Void had his best game of the season to date with 34 carries for 120 yards and 2 touchdowns against the NCAA top 10 ranked Iowa run defense.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Iowa
For the 8th time in 10 games, the Boilers took their opening drive for a score, as Void took advantage of terrific blocking by his offensive line and junior FB Jon Goldsberry for 22 and 9-yard runs, the latter going for a touchdown. Purdue then added 2 field goals before halftime, while Iowa miscues kept them scoreless. On two different occasions Iowa QB Nathan Chandler missed open receivers for touchdowns. On another drive a Chandler touchdown pass to WR Mo Brown was called back by penalty, and then the Hawkeyes came up empty when kicker Nate Kaeding missed his first FG of the year.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Iowa
On the opening drive of the 2nd half, Purdue started with a kickoff return to midfield, and then converted a 3rd and 5 situation with QB Kyle Orton's 45-yard touchdown pass to WR Anthony Chambers for a 20–0 lead. On the Boilers' next possession, Orton's efficient passing and nifty bootleg runs set up Void's second touchdown for a 27–0 advantage with 7:30 left in the 3rd quarter.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Iowa
After Iowa drove for touchdowns on their next 2 possessions to narrow the score to 27–14 with 9:56 left in the game, Orton directed the Purdue offense on a ball-control 8 minute drive that featured numerous 3rd down conversions to bring the clock down to 2:09 to go, but Purdue came up empty when kicker Ben Jones missed a FG attempt. The Iowa offense then made the game interesting by moving into scoring position on a couple of brilliant Mo Brown receptions. But Purdue free safety Stuart Schweigert – playing in his last home game – put an end to the Hawkeye rally with an end zone interception.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Iowa
Notwithstanding the late rally, Purdue's defense had another fine performance, as it held terrific Iowa RB Fred Russell to 35 yards rushing on 18 carries, and sacked Chandler 4 times.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Ohio State
For the second time this year, ESPN College Gameday visited a contest involving Purdue, and with a chance to qualify for a share of the Big Ten title or an at-large BCS bowl game, the Boilermakers suffered a heartbreaking loss for the 2nd straight year to the #4 Ohio State Buckeyes, falling 16–13 to the Buckeyes in overtime.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Ohio State
As expected, the defenses largely controlled the game by keeping it low in points and high in punts. Purdue took its opening offensive drive 53 yards before settling for a Ben Jones FG. Late in the first quarter, the Buckeyes struck on a 58-yard pass from QB Craig Krenzel to WR Michael Jenkins to set up a 1st and goal.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Ohio State
A controversial pass interference no-call resulted in a short FG for Buckeyes' all-time great kicker Mike Nugent to tie the game at 3. Purdue RB Jerod Void returned the ensuing kickoff near midfield, resulting in a short drive that ended with a long Jones FG to put Purdue back up 6–3. The Buckeyes slowly gained an edge in field position for the rest of the half, as they turned a short drive into a 52-yard Nugent FG to send the teams into the locker room tied at 6.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Ohio State
The game remained a field position battle for the better part of the 2nd half, as neither team's offense turned the ball over or scored any points. However, Purdue came up empty on an 86-yard drive when Ben Jones' FG attempt missed badly wide left.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Ohio State
Early in the 4th quarter Purdue faced a 3rd and long deep in their own territory. OSU defensive linemen Will Smith and Tim Anderson converged on QB Kyle Orton, forcing a fumble that DE Mike Kudla recovered for a touchdown that gave OSU a 13–6 lead. After a punt exchange, Purdue started a drive from their own 8-yard line with 6:36 to go and quickly faced another 3rd down and long yardage situation. Starting with a third down conversion pass to Anthony Chambers, Orton moved the Purdue offense over the next 5 plays to the OSU 11-yard line and then capped the impressive game-tying 92-yard drive with a well-executed Statue of Liberty touchdown run by RB Jerod Void.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Ohio State
After the Buckeyes' next drive ended just outside FG range, the OSU punt by B. J. Sander pinned Purdue inside their own 20-yard line for the seventh time in the game. With under 2 minutes left, the Boilermakers moved the ball to their 32-yard line, but then Orton mishandled the QB snap, resulting in a fumble that the Buckeyes recovered. OSU proceeded to run the clock down to 4 seconds on three running plays to set up Nugent's winning FG attempt. However, on the last play of regulation reserve LB Bobby Iwuchukwu (playing for the injured Gilbert Gardner) blocked the FG, keeping Purdue alive and sending the game to Overtime.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Ohio State
On Ohio State's overtime possession, the offense could not get a first down, but Nugent kicked a FG (partially blocked again by Iwuchukwu) to put the Buckeyes ahead 16–13. Needing a FG to tie or touchdown to win, Purdue gained a first down on an amazing effort by WR Taylor Stubblefield but could not advance further, bringing in Jones for a game-tying FG attempt. Unfortunately for Purdue, Jones missed the FG wide left, ending the game.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Ohio State
In defeat, Niko Koutouvides led the defense with 15 tackles and two pass defended.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Indiana
Purdue finished a highly successful regular season at 9–3 to qualify for a New Year's Day bowl, but it was not without struggle against the lowly 2–10 Indiana Hoosiers. The Boilermakers made some uncharacteristic mistakes that turned a comfortable margin into a 5-point game, but then held on to get the 24–16 win.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Indiana
Two of Purdue's senior stars – WR John Standeford (6-151, 2 touchdowns) and LB Landon Johnson – had big days and made key plays. The Hoosiers had turned a 21–3 deficit late in the 3rd quarter into a 21-16 margin early in the 4th quarter with a chance to take the lead by intercepting Kyle Orton twice. On the ensuing Hoosier drive after Orton's 2nd interception, LB Landon Johnson picked off Matt Lovecchio to end the IU threat. Purdue later added a Ben Jones FG, and then ran out the rest of the clock with the help of RB Jerod Void's best game of the season (31 carries, 141 yards).


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Indiana
In defeat, IU (and future Ole Miss and NFL) freshman RB BenJarvus Green-Ellis had a terrific day with 155 yards on the ground, becoming the first RB to gain over 100 yards on Purdue's stout 2003 defense.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Georgia
In a game that mostly reversed the script of their previous meeting in the 2000 Outback Bowl, Purdue and Georgia played a game that featured a big early lead (Georgia 24–0) and a late rally to force overtime (tied at 27). However, like their 2000 meeting, Georgia emerged as the winner in a truly entertaining 34–27 game.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Georgia
Needless to say, Purdue had a rough start. First, as was not typical in 2003, the Purdue defense – which was playing without seniors Jacques Reeves and Gilbert Gardner – got picked apart for the better part of the first half, as Georgia rolled up 24 points and almost 300 yards of offense led by the effective passing of QB David Greene to a talented receiving corps (that included WR Reggie Brown and TE Ben Watson). Meanwhile, the Purdue offense could not move against the ultra-athletic Georgia defense (30 total yards deep into the 2nd quarter). Making matters worse, Boilers starting QB Kyle Orton dislocated the thumb on his throwing hand on a David Pollack sack, removing him from the game as Purdue fell further behind.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Georgia
In an amazing display of toughness and courage, Orton returned after only a few series, sparking the Purdue rally with 10 points late in the 2nd quarter. First, Orton capped a no-huddle drive with a 20-yard touchdown run to put Purdue on the board. Then on the first play of the ensuing UGA drive, Purdue forced and recovered a fumble, resulting in a Ben Jones FG.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Georgia
The third quarter was mostly a field position battle with both defenses firmly in control, keeping the score 24–10.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Georgia
Early in the fourth quarter, Orton completed passes on 4 consecutive plays to WR Taylor Stubblefield to move Purdue 60 yards to a first and goal situation. Orton ended the drive with his second touchdown run to make it a one possession game. But Greene and the Georgia offense responded with an efficient time-consuming drive that ended with a Billy Bennett FG for a 27–17 advantage with less than 5 minutes to go.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Georgia
But the Boilers were far from finished. After an exchange of punts, Purdue started a drive with just over 2 minutes left with a terrific 60-yard pass from Orton to WR John Standeford, and then finished it with an Anthony Chambers touchdown catch to make the score 27–24.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Georgia
Georgia recovered the ensuing onside kick, but then Bulldogs freshman RB Kregg Lumpkin marred an otherwise solid day (over 100 yards rushing) with a critical mistake on a clock-killing run: trying to make a cutback for more yardage, Lumpkin was stripped of the ball from behind by DE Shaun Phillips. Amidst a mad mob of players, LB Niko Koutouvides recovered the fumble at the UGA 35 to give Purdue new life. Although the Boilermakers could not score a touchdown, they did tie on a clutch 44-yard FG from Ben Jones to send the game to overtime.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Georgia
Purdue won the OT coin toss and elected to go on defense first. Helped by a questionable end zone pass interference call, Georgia got a touchdown run from Lumpkin on a 4th and goal from the 1 – a gutsy call by UGA coach Mark Richt. Then Purdue could not score the necessary touchdown on their OT possession, which ended with an end zone interception on 4th down and goal.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Georgia
Considering the combination of offense, defense, and special team talent, the 2003 Purdue Boilermakers were arguably Joe Tiller's best overall team in his tenure at Purdue, having concluded a highly successful campaign with a 9–4 record.


2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team, 2004 NFL Draft
Purdue had 9 NFL Draft picks, just short of the school record of 10 in 1960.


2003 Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs season
The 2003 Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs season was the 16th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


2003 Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs season, Occurrences
Coach Eric Altamirano steps down and was replaced by Ryan Gregorio, who steered the hotdogs to a title last season.


2003 Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs season, Occurrences
Ronnie Magsanoc retires from active playing to concentrate on assisting the head coach on the Purefoods bench.


2003 QX113
2003 QX113 is a large trans-Neptunian object from the scattered disc located in the outermost region of the Solar System. It is one of the most distant objects from the Sun at 60.5 AU. The object is also a dwarf planet candidate that measures approximately 423 kilometers (260 miles) in diameter. It was discovered by astronomers with the Canada–France Ecliptic Plane Survey at Mauna Kea Observatories, Hawaii, when it was near aphelion on 31 August 2003. It was provisionally designated 2003 QX113.


2003 QX113, Orbit and classification
2003 QX113 orbits the Sun at a distance of 37.7–62.2 AU once every 353 years and 1 month (128,966 days; semi-major axis of 49.96 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.25 and an inclination of 7° with respect to the ecliptic.


2003 QX113, Orbit and classification
It is classified as a scattered disc object, or "near-scattered" object in the classification of the Deep Ecliptic Survey, that still gravitationally interacts with Neptune (30.1 AU) due to its relatively low perihelion of 37.7 AU, contrary to the extended-scattered/detached objects and sednoids which never approach Neptune as close. It has also been described as a "detached classical belt object" by the discovering Canada–France Ecliptic Plane Survey (CFEPS), that are objects with a semi-major axis beyond the 2:1 mean-motion resonance (i.e. beyond the twotino population at 47.8 AU) and with an eccentricity larger than 0.24. It was furthest object discovered in CFEPS.


2003 QX113, Orbit and classification, Most distant objects from the Sun
2003 QX113 last came to perihelion around 1882, moving away from the Sun ever since and is currently about 60.5 AU from the Sun, which is further away than the dwarf planet Sedna, and will reach its aphelion around 2058. Its current distance makes it one of the most distant known minor planets in the Solar System (also see List of Solar System objects most distant from the Sun § Known distant objects).


2003 QX113, Physical characteristics
Based on a generic magnitude-to-diameter conversion, 2003 QX113 measures approximately 423 kilometers (260 miles) in diameter, for an assumed albedo of 0.9 and an magnitude of 5.1. Mike Brown considers this object to be a likely dwarf planet candidate ("probably") estimating a mean-diameter of 460 km (290 mi). As of 2021, no rotational lightcurve for this object has been obtained from photometric observations. The body's rotation period, pole and shape remain unknown.


2003 Qatar Open
The 2003 Qatar Open, known as the 2003 Qatar ExxonMobil Open, for sponsorship reasons, was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Khalifa International Tennis Complex in Doha in Qatar and was part of the International Series of the 2003 ATP Tour. The tournament ran from 30 December 2002 through 5 January 2003. Unseeded Stefan Koubek won the singles title.


2003 Qatar Open, Finals, Doubles
Martin Damm /  Cyril Suk defeated  Mark Knowles /  Daniel Nestor 6–4, 7–6, [10–8]


2003 Qatar Open – Doubles
Donald Johnson and Jared Palmer were the defending champions but did not compete that year.


2003 Qatar Open – Doubles
Martin Damm and Cyril Suk won in the final 6–4, 7–6, [10–8] against Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor.


2003 Qatar Open – Singles
Younes El Aynaoui was the defending champion but lost in the semifinals to Stefan Koubek.


2003 Qatar Open – Singles
Koubek won in the final 6–4, 6–4 against Jan-Michael Gambill.


2003 Qatar Total Fina Elf Open
The 2003 Qatar Total Open was a professional women's tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 3rd edition of the event and part of the WTA Tier III series of the 2003 WTA Tour. It took place at the International Tennis and Squash complex in Doha, Qatar between 10 and 16 February 2003.


2003 Qatar Total Fina Elf Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2003 Qatar Total Fina Elf Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2003 Qatar Total Fina Elf Open, Finals, Singles
It was the 1st title in the year for Myskina and the 3rd title in her career.


2003 Qatar Total Fina Elf Open, Finals, Doubles
It was the 3rd title for Lee and the 2nd title for Prakusya in their respective doubles careers.


2003 Qatar Total Fina Elf Open – Doubles
Janette Husárová and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario were the defending champions, but did not compete this year.


2003 Qatar Total Fina Elf Open – Doubles
Janet Lee and Wynne Prakusya won the title by defeating María Vento-Kabchi and Angelique Widjaja 6–1, 6–3 in the final.


2003 Qatar Total Fina Elf Open – Singles
Monica Seles was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Lina Krasnoroutskaya.


2003 Qatar Total Fina Elf Open – Singles
Anastasia Myskina won the title, defeating Elena Likhovtseva 6–3, 6–1 in an all-Russian final.


2003 Qatari constitutional referendum
A referendum to approve a new constitution was held in Qatar on 29 April 2003. The constitution was overwhelmingly approved, with almost 98% in favour. The population of the country was estimated to be around 790,000 at the time of the referendum with only 85,000 registered voters (because the majority of the population are foreign workers). Voter turnout was 84.3%. With the referendum's approval, it also created a legislative body of which two-thirds would be elected by universal suffrage, and one third appointed by the Emir.


2003 Qatari constitutional referendum
According to the new constitution, the legislature will have three powers: to approve (but not prepare) the national budget; to monitor the performance of ministers through no-confidence votes; and to draft, discuss, and vote on proposed legislation, which becomes law only with the vote of a two-thirds majority and the Emir's endorsement.


2003 Quebec general election
The 2003 Quebec general election was held on April 14, 2003, to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec (Canada). The Parti libéral du Québec (PLQ), led by Jean Charest, defeated the incumbent Parti Québécois, led by Premier Bernard Landry.


2003 Quebec general election
In Champlain there was a tie between PQ candidate Noëlla Champagne and Liberal candidate Pierre-A. Brouillette; although the initial tally was 11,867 to 11,859, a judicial recount produced a tally of 11,852 each. A new election was held on May 20 and was won by Champagne by a margin of 642 votes.


2003 Quebec general election, Unfolding
In 2002, the Parti Québécois (PQ) government had been in power for two mandates. It was seen as worn-out by some, and its poll numbers fell sharply. It placed third at its lowest point. An important part of its support was going to the Action Démocratique du Québec (ADQ) and its young leader, Mario Dumont. Some PQ supporters had left for the Liberal party.


2003 Quebec general election, Unfolding
Landry, leader of the PQ, undertook a revitalization of the party and its image. As the ideas of the conservative nature of ADQ's platform became more apparent, that party's popularity declined. Social democratic measures taken by the PQ government, like the passing of the "Law against poverty" helped improve the PQ's standing in the public opinion polls. PLQ leader Jean Charest initially continued to be unpopular with voters.


2003 Quebec general election, Unfolding
The 2003 election happened against the backdrop of the war in Iraq. The battles of that war took place during the first half of the campaign, diverting the attention of the media and the population. Landry became known for his custom of wearing the white ribbon (which in 2003 was worn by people in favour of peace). This custom was shortly followed by the two other main party leaders, Charest and Dumont. Landry was the most outspoken critic of the war. The other two were more discreet on the matter. Charest once stated that it was an opportunity to reaffirm his "belief in peace". Dumont acted in a similar way, while also addressing criticism to Landry, saying that Quebecers should refrain from criticizing Americans too harshly since Americans were historical friends of Quebecers.


2003 Quebec general election, Unfolding
The desire for change was considered an important factor of the campaign (see "Change", below). However, while reminding voters that the fundamental change was at the core of its primary ideal, sovereignty, the PQ focused its message and publicity not on change, but on stability. Its campaign slogan emphasized this (see the Campaign slogans below). Landry also tried to portray the vote as being a choice between the left wing PQ and two parties of the right. The PLQ portrayed itself as centrist. The PLQ produced dynamic ads and material, and released a new, younger logo. The ADQ put forward its young, underdog leader, and denied being too much to the right. It first broadcast a negative advertisement (a bleak television spot speaking of deaths in the hospitals) that backfired substantially, with criticism from opponents and citizens. It shortly released a brighter, more positive advertising.


2003 Quebec general election, Unfolding
Despite the PQ's recovery of support, Charest appeared as a viable alternative for people in desire of change, especially during the Leaders' Debate. Also, the Parizeau Affair sparked by Charest is said to have harmed Landry's campaign up to election day. The PQ lead in the public opinion polls vanished by mid-campaign.


2003 Quebec general election, Unfolding
The Parti Libéral won the election, while Parti Québécois won a respectable number of seats. The ADQ won four seats, which was a considerable improvement from previous general elections. It was nonetheless a disappointment for the party since it had five sitting members as a result of by-election victories in the previous year. It had also had a high standing in the polls of that same year. This was the first general election for the new left-wing Union des forces progressistes.


2003 Quebec general election, Unfolding
A documentary about Bernard Landry's point of view of the campaign was released in 2003 called À Hauteur d'homme. It was directed by Jean-Claude Labrecque.


2003 Quebec general election, Issues, Health care
Jean Charest and the PLQ focused their campaign upon the issue of health care and reducing waiting lists. The other major parties criticized Charest for planning to invest only in health care and education, while freezing other budgets. Landry argued that money for health care would be available when the fiscal imbalance was solved by sovereignty. He vowed to fight for money from Ottawa until then, as he had done earlier that year (see the "Fiscal Imbalance", below). Charest portrayed Landry as putting sovereignty ahead of health care, and presented his party as the one that would make health care its first priority. He also accused Landry's government of using waiting lists as an administration procedure for hospitals.


2003 Quebec general election, Issues, Change
The desire for change was considered by the media to be a major deciding factor of the vote. The media were criticized by the PQ and some citizens as "wanting change for the sake of change", since the government had ended its term with an economy doing well and high satisfaction polls for an outgoing administration. Landry reminded voters that, while voting for his party did not change the government right away, the first ideal of the PQ, sovereignty, was "the greatest of changes".


2003 Quebec general election, Issues, Change
At the Leaders' Debate, Charest told viewers that those wanting change should vote for the PLQ since "A vote for the ADQ is a vote for the PQ". At the time, the ADQ was considered to be too low in the polls to be a potential victor. Charest's reminder of the spoiler effect is said to have been partly responsible for his victory on election day. The results on election day appear to have demonstrated the voters' desire for change.


2003 Quebec general election, Issues, Income tax
Charest presented a plan of major reduction of income tax, which Landry opposed. Quebec's income taxes are the highest in North America, but its social programs are also relatively generous, and the gap between rich and poor is the lowest of the North American continent. The ADQ presented a flat tax plan in 2002. This proved to be highly unpopular, and contributed to the image of the party as being too conservative. This plan, in its pure form, was dropped in the beginning of 2003. The ADQ claimed that, after further examination, the Quebec government did not have the resources to implement it. This, again, hurt the party further by giving it the image of flip flopping.


2003 Quebec general election, Issues, State size and intervention
The PQ government was criticized by the two other major parties for being too interventionist, maintaining an overly large government, and for practising statism. Dumont spoke of Landry and the PQ's "Social bureaucracy", a pun on the Social democracy the PQ defends. Landry responded to Charest and Dumont that "Quebecers do not want less state, they want better state". Dumont had previously proposed a drastic reduction in the size of the civil service, but this was also softened before the campaign.


2003 Quebec general election, Issues, Family-work conciliation
The conciliation famille-travail became an important issue of the campaign as a result of Landry's "Four day work-week" plan. This proposal would have required Quebec employers to offer the option of a four-day work week to parents. This was presented by the PQ as a way to enhance family life, lower the stress on parents, and of counteracting the fall in Quebec's birthrate since the Quiet Revolution. The plan was attacked by the PLQ and ADQ as being  "improvised" since it was only presented near the beginning of the election. It attracted some interest and support from voters, enough for Charest to declare, days before voting day, that he could consider implementing a four-day week, although the PLQ has not mentioned this since the election.


2003 Quebec general election, Issues, Fiscal imbalance
The theory of a fiscal imbalance between Ottawa and Quebec City was maintained and denounced by all major parties. Charest argued that the co-operative approach of a federalist party like the PLQ would be more effective solving the problem. As proof that the PQ would be able to solve the fiscal imbalance, Landry pointed to his success of early 2003, when he, along with the English Canadian Premiers, managed to come to an agreement with Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien for more money to finance health care. He promised to continue the "battle" to solve the imbalance until independence is achieved.


2003 Quebec general election, Issues, City mergers
The PQ government, during the premiership of Landry's predecessor Lucien Bouchard, had merged the major cities of Quebec. The government argued that the mergers would allow a better division of the wealth and responsibilities between richer suburban communities and poorer parts of the main cities. The mergers occurred despite widespread opposition in some municipalities. Many Quebecers were still disgruntled, especially in wealthier and anglophone communities. The PLQ proposed to allow referendums on de-amalgamation in communities where there was sufficient support. The PQ and the ADQ strongly opposed the idea.


2003 Quebec general election, Issues, Sovereignty and autonomy
While the PQ continued to promote sovereignty for Quebec with its usual arguments (dignity, culture, globalization, etc. ), it was also presented by the PQ as a way to solve the fiscal imbalance problem. The ADQ made great efforts to avoid taking a position on the subject of independence in order to attract both sides of the National Question spectrum. The ADQ positioned itself as a "third way" to Quebecers between what Dumont called "radical separation" and "knelt down federalism". The ADQ had worked in favour of sovereignty during the 1995 Quebec referendum, but had been equivocal on the subject since then.


2003 Quebec general election, Issues, Sovereignty and autonomy
The PLQ criticized the PQ for using the politics of confrontation because of its sovereignty position, and argued that a PLQ government would restore Quebec's "leadership role" in the federation. Landry promised a third referendum on independence "in 1000 days", confirming the plan he had set out in the Declaration of Gatineau, with support for independence running very low and support for a referendum running even lower in opinion polls; this did not prove to be a popular position.


2003 Quebec general election, Issues, Sovereignty and autonomy
An argument of Landry for this timetable was that he wanted Quebec to be present at the Summit of the Americas in Buenos Aires in 2005. Representation for Quebec had been denied by Ottawa at the previous summit held in Quebec City, an act that angered many Quebecers. At the same time, Landry kept the door opened to federalist support for the PQ and stated that he would only hold a referendum if he had the "moral assurance" of winning it. This lead Charest to accuse him of having a "hidden agenda", during the Leaders' Debate.


2003 Quebec general election, Issues, Parizeau Affair
On the day of the leaders' debate, Charest's advisors gave him an article from the website of the Trois-Rivières newspaper Le Nouvelliste that spoke of past PQ leader Jacques Parizeau restating his controversial remarks about "money and the ethnic vote" which he had made in his 1995 referendum concession speech. The truth of the article was later disputed, yet despite the uncertainty surrounding this article, Charest surprised Landry with it during the leaders' debate on live television. This created a new controversy that ran for some days following the debate, and was said to have hurt Landry's campaign.


2003 Quebec general election, Issues, Parizeau Affair
The PQ denounced Charest for launching an "immoral attack" on Parizeau's reputation and dignity, saying that the article was incorrect in concluding that he had repeated his comments, but this method of response was not enough to defuse the controversy. The aftermath of the leaders' debate is thoroughly treated in the À Hauteur d'homme documentary, and became known as the Parizeau Affair.


2003 Quebec general election, Issues, Day care
The "five dollar-a-day child care" program implemented by the PQ government of Lucien Bouchard was one of the most appreciated achievements of the recent PQ administration. Some parents still did not have access to it, however, because of a lack of sufficient places. Landry, who had been Minister of Finance when the plan was implemented, vowed to continue creating more spaces. Charest presented his team as the most capable for this task. He also vowed to keep the price at $5 a day. He broke this promise later that year. See Opposition to the Charest government.


2003 Quebec general election, Issues, Public debt
The Action Démocratique insisted that the Government of Quebec should pay down the public debt. The other major leaders did not see it as a priority.


2003 Quebec municipal elections
The Canadian province of Quebec held municipal elections in 465 communities on November 2, 2003. Some results from these elections are included on this page.


2003 Quebec municipal elections, Bedford
Source: "Eastern Townships Municipal Elections Results," Sherbrooke Record, 3 November 2003, p. 7 .


2003 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)
The 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours for Australia were announced on Monday 9 June 2003 by the office of the Governor-General.


2003 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)
The Birthday Honours were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June.


2003 Queensland Cup
The 2003 Queensland Cup season was the 8th season of Queensland's top-level statewide rugby league competition run by the Queensland Rugby League. The competition featured 12 teams playing a 26-week long season (including finals) from March to September.


2003 Queensland Cup
The Redcliffe Dolphins defeated the Burleigh Bears 31–18 in the Grand Final at Dolphin Oval, becoming the first club to win back-to-back premierships. Wynnum halfback Denny Lambert was named the competition's Player of the Year, winning the Courier Mail Medal.


2003 Queensland Cup, Teams
The Tweed Heads Seagulls, the oldest provincial club in Australia, gained entry to the competition for the 2003 season. The club applied for the 2002 season but were unsuccessful. They re-applied after the Logan Scorpions, an inaugural Queensland Cup club, ceased operations. Seagulls became the first New South Wales-based team to enter the competition. Souths Magpies acquired what remained of the Logan club and re-branded as the Souths Logan Magpies. Also in 2003, the East Coast Tigers reverted to their original name, Easts Tigers, after two seasons.


2003 Queensland Cup, Teams
The Brisbane Broncos, Melbourne Storm and North Queensland Cowboys were again affiliated with the Toowoomba Clydesdales, Norths Devils and North Queensland Young Guns respectively.


2003 Queensland Cup, Grand Final
Burleigh, who finished as minor premiers ahead of Redcliffe on points differential, earned a week one bye in the finals before defeating the Dolphins in the major semi final to secure a spot in their second Grand Final. Redcliffe, who defeated Ipswich in the first week of the finals, faced Wynnum in the preliminary final after their loss to Burleigh. A dominant 46–26 win over the Seagulls saw them qualify for their fifth straight Grand Final and set up a rematch of the 1999 decider against Burleigh.


2003 Queensland Cup, Grand Final, First half
Burleigh started the Grand Final in the best way possible when centre Reggie Cressbrook intercepted a pass in the opening set to score under the posts. Redcliffe hit back through the competition's top try scorer Aaron Barba, who scored in the 18th minute. Barba got his second try of the game when he chased down a Shane Perry kick from a scrum win to score untouched. Barba scored his third try of the contest when he scooped up a kick from inside his own half and ran 70 metres to score just before half time.


2003 Queensland Cup, Grand Final, Second half
Redcliffe seemingly put the game beyond doubt four minutes into the second half when centre Damien Richters scored out wide. Burleigh staged a small fightback with two tries in five minutes to Tony Gray and Trent Purdon but the Dolphins truly put the game to bed when Ben Jones scored with eight minutes to play. In the 78th minute, five-eighth Shane Perry wrapped up the victory with a field goal to extend the final winning margin to 13. The win gave the Dolphins' their fourth premiership in eight seasons and their first back-to-back titles.


2003 Quetta mosque bombing
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2003 Quetta mosque bombing
On 4 July 2003, 53 Hazara Shias were killed and at least 65 others were injured when the mosque was attacked during the Friday prayer in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. When hundreds of worshipers were offering Friday prayer, three armed men entered the Asna Ashari Hazara Imambargah and started shooting, threw hand grenades and one suicide bomber blew himself up - which left 53 dead and tens of others injured. It was second major sectarian attack on Quetta's Hazaras after the massacre of police cadets. It was the start of the series of killings of Hazaras in Quetta.


2003 Quetta mosque bombing, Bombing
On 4 July 2003, hundreds of worshippers were practicing Friday prayer in Asna Ashri Hazara Imambargah Kalan mosque. Five men armed with automatic weapons entered the mosque and fired on worshippers for ten continuous minutes and tried to throw a grenade, but it exploded in his hand. Worshippers disarmed one of the attackers and killed a third one. The other two attackers ran away from the roof. This attack left more 65 dead and tens of others injured.


2003 Quetta mosque bombing, Bombing, Perpetrators
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), a banned terrorist group, was responsible for the attack on the mosque. After investigations, intelligence agencies found a video compact disc in which two people are shown who claimed their people attacked the mosque and they were going to meet them in paradise.


2003 Quetta mosque bombing, Response
Whether they are religious extremists or sectarian extremists they are ignorant and wild.


2003 RCA Championships
The 2003 RCA Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Indianapolis Tennis Center in Indianapolis, Indiana in the United States and was part of the International Series of the 2003 ATP Tour. It was the 16th edition of the tournament and ran from July 21 through July 27, 2003.


2003 RCA Championships, Champions, Men's Doubles
Mario Ančić /  Andy Ram defeated  Diego Ayala /  Robby Ginepri 2–6, 7–6(7–3), 7–5


2003 RCA Championships – Doubles
Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor were the defending champions but did not compete that year.


2003 RCA Championships – Doubles
Mario Ančić and Andy Ram won in the final 2–6, 7–6(7–3), 7–5 against Diego Ayala and Robby Ginepri.


2003 RCA Championships – Singles
Greg Rusedski was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Scott Draper.


2003 RCA Championships – Singles
Andy Roddick won in the final 7–6(7–2), 6–4 against Paradorn Srichaphan.


2003 RCA Championships – Singles, Seeds
All sixteen seeds received a bye to the second round.


2003 RCSL season
The 2003 Rugby Canada Super League season was the sixth season for the RCSL.


2003 RCSL season, MacTier Cup
The MacTier Cup is awarded to the RCSL Champions. The Calgary Mavericks (Western Division champions) defeated the Toronto Xtreme (Eastern Division Champions) 40–24 in the Championship Final, played in Calgary, Alberta on 26 July 2003. With the win, the Calgary Mavericks became the first team outside of British Columbia to win the MacTier Cup.


2003 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards
The 2003 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards (Chinese: 2003年度十大中文金曲得獎) was held in 2003 for the 2002 music season.


2003 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards, Top 10 song awards
The top 10 songs (十大中文金曲) of 2003 are as follows.


2003 Race of Champions
The 2003 Race of Champions took place on November 28–30 at Gran Canaria for the final time. It was also the last year for three-car teams in the Nations' Cup (including one motorcycle racer), with the focus on rally drivers fading after this year's event due to the later stadium-based venues using all-tarmac tracks.


2003 Race of Champions
The vehicles used were the Peugeot 206 WRC, the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII Group N, the Subaru Impreza WRX and the ROC Buggy.


2003 Race of Champions
The individual competition was won by Sébastien Loeb, whilst the Nations' Cup was won by the All-Star line-up of Fonsi Nieto, Gilles Panizzi and Cristiano da Matta.


2003 Race of Champions, Race of Champions
Participation in the main Race of Champions was awarded primarily on the basis of having the best times in the Nations' Cup. There were several exceptions to this rule however - Marcus Grönholm, as the defending champion, was guaranteed a spot, whilst Cristiano da Matta, despite having the best time among racing drivers in the Nations' Cup, did not participate. François Duval secured his place by winning the Junior event, Dani Sordo won the Spanish Masters event, Timo Salonen was an invited 'seeded' driver and Martin Rowe was invited for having won the 2003 PWRC title. Thomas Biagi meanwhile earned his place by beating FIA GT teammate Matteo Bobbi and Volkswagen Cup UK winner Rob Carvell.


2003 Radio Disney Music Awards
The 2003 Radio Disney Music Awards was held at the Radio Disney studios. Hilary Duff was the biggest winner that year. Like the shows before, it was not a ceremony, but a special feature on Radio Disney


2003 Radio Music Awards
The 2003 Radio Music Awards was held on October 27, 2003, at the Aladdin Casino & Resort, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The ceremony was broadcast by NBC, and it was hosted by Ryan Seacrest and Brooke Burns.


2003 Radio Music Awards, Winners and nominees
The nominees in each category were based on radio’s top-playing songs. Radio program and music directors nationwide voted on the winners.


2003 Railway Cup Hurling Championship
The 2003 Railway Cup Hurling Championship was the 76th series of the inter-provincial hurling Railway Cup. Three matches were played between 18 October 2003 and 8 November 2003 to decide the title. It was contested by Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster.


2003 Railway Cup Hurling Championship
On 8 November 2003, Leinster won the Railway Cup after a 4-09 to 2-12 defeat of Connacht in the final at the Giulio Onesti Sports Complex in Rome. It was their 23rd Railway Cup title overall and their second title in succession.


2003 Railway Cup Hurling Championship
Leinster's Henry Shefflin (4-06) and Connacht's Eugene Cloonan (3-09) were the Railway Cup joint top scorers.


2003 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of Rajasthan in 2003. The incumbent ruling party INC lost to the BJP.


2003 Raleigh mayoral election
The Raleigh mayoral election of 2003 was held on October 7, 2003, to elect a Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina. The election is non-partisan. It was won by incumbent mayor Charles Meeker, who defeated John Odom in the primary. Because Meeker won more than 50% in the first round, there was no need for a run-off.


2003 Recopa Sudamericana
The 2003 Recopa Sudamericana was the 11th edition of the match-up contested between the winners of CONMEBOL's two continental tournaments. This was the first Recopa contested since 1999 when the competition was discontinued due to the Supercopa Sudamericana folding in 1997. However, in 2002 the Copa Sudamericana was created to serve as the second most important continental trophy. Thus, the Recopa Sudamericana became playable again pitting the winners of the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana. The first Recopa Sudamericana under this format took place in a single final held at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles.


2003 Recopa Sudamericana
The match was contested by Olimpia, winners of the 2002 Copa Libertadores, and San Lorenzo de Almagro, winners of the 2002 Copa Sudamericana, on July 12, 2003. Olimpia defeated San Lorenzo to win their second Recopa Sudamericana.


2003 Red Bull Air Race World Series
The 2003 Red Bull Air Race World Series was the 1st Red Bull Air Race World Series season. It started on June 28, 2003 and ended on August 20.


2003 Red Bull Air Race World Series
In the 2003 season, there were two air race venues only, Zeltweg in Austria and Budapest in Hungary.


2003 Red Bull Air Race World Series
Six pilots competed in the first leg. Due to a timing dispute, no points were given. In the second and final round, only three pilots participated. Hungarian Péter Besenyei won the race in Budapest and so the 2003 championship with 6 points. Klaus Schrodt from Germany became second before the American pilot Kirby Chambliss.


2003 Red Square bombing
The 2003 Red Square bombing was the 9 December 2003 suicide bombing on Mohovaja street in Moscow.


2003 Red Square bombing
According to police, a female suicide bomber set off an explosive belt on a busy street close to the Moscow Kremlin, killing six people and injuring 44. Moscow's mayor Yuri Luzhkov reported speculation that the bomber had intended to target the nearby Moscow City Hall or State Duma instead. According to the investigation, the suicide bomber was identified as Khadishat (in other sources - Khedizhi) Mangerieva, a widow of a Chechen rebel commander of Kurchaloyevsky District, Ruslan Mangeriev, who was killed during the Second Chechen War.


2003 Red Square bombing, Inga Gizoeva's role
One of the victims, Inga (Inna) Gizoeva, was suspected to be a helper of Mangerieva. After speculation, several Russian newspapers printed apologies to Gizoeva's parents.


2003 Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council election
The 2003 Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Redcar and Cleveland Unitary Council in England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1999. The Labour party lost overall control of the council to no overall control.


2003 Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council election, Background
Between 1999 and 2003 the Local Government Boundary Commission for England had made changes to the wards of the council. The changes included renaming Belmont ward to Westworth, and Redcar ward to Zetland, with 18 of the 22 wards having boundary changes.


2003 Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council election, Background
Before the election Labour ran the council with 31 seats, compared to 14 Conservatives, 11 Liberal Democrats and 3 East Cleveland Independents. In total 151 candidates stood for the 59 seats that were being contested, an increase of 9 from the 1999 election.


2003 Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council election, Background
The election had a trial of all postal voting to try and increase turnout, with ballots being delivered to voters 2 weeks before the election.


2003 Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council election, Election result
The count for Brotton ward was suspended on election night after 2 recounts and completed the following day. Overall turnout at the election was 51.5%, an increase from 37% in 1999.


2003 Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council election, Election result
Labour lost their majority on the council, finishing with 23 seats, 7 short of a majority. Among the Labour councillors to lose seats was the leader of the council Dave Walsh in Eston ward, after he had moved to contest Eston, instead of Loftus which he had previously been a councillor for.


2003 Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council election, Election result
Following the election Labour chose George Dunning, formerly the deputy leader, as the new leader of the party on the council, defeating Dave McLuckie by 12 votes to 11. Meanwhile, the 8 independents joined together, with Steve Kay as their leader, in an East Cleveland, Eston and Marske Independents group. After negotiations the Liberal Democrat, Conservative and Independent groups formed a coalition to take control of the council from Labour.


2003 Redditch Borough Council election
The 2003 Redditch Borough Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Redditch Borough Council in the West Midlands region, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.


2003 Redditch Borough Council election, Campaign
The Conservative Party was hoping to gain control over the council, which before the election was controlled by Labour with the support of the Liberal Democrats. 10 seats were being contested with the Labour party defending 6 of the seats. Labour needed to gain one seat to regain their majority, while the Conservatives needed 3 gains to also win a majority. The key wards targeted by the Conservatives were Central, Greenlands and Lodge Park.


2003 Redditch Borough Council election, Campaign
The Conservatives were hoping to gain from voters who were unhappy over council tax rises and they pledged to only increase it by the inflation rate over the next three years if they won control. Meanwhile, Labour pledged to use new powers to tackle anti-social behaviour and said they were making a difference in the town. Other issues raised in the election included an Audit Commission report on the housing department and the poor use of tourist attractions in the borough.


2003 Redditch Borough Council election, Election result
The results saw the Labour party lose four seats, two each to the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. The Liberal Democrats gained in Church Hill and Winyates, while the Conservatives gained Central and Greenlands. Among the Labour losses was the wife of the Labour leader, Helen Cartwright, and the planning committee chairman, Clive Cheetham. The new Conservative councillor from Central ward, Mohammed Farooqui, became the youngest member of the council at the age of 24.


2003 Redditch Borough Council election, Election result
As a result, the Conservatives became the largest party on the council with 14 seats. They had only just missed winning a majority on the council after failing to gain Lodge Park by 64 votes.


2003 Renault Clio Cup United Kingdom
The 2003 Elf Renault Clio Cup United Kingdom season began at Snetterton on 19 April and finished after 18 races over 11 events at Oulton Park on 21 September. The Championship was won by Jonathan Fildes driving for Total Control Racing.


2003 Renfrewshire Council election
Elections to Renfrewshire Council were held on 1 May 2003, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the last one using the 40 single-member wards using the plurality (first past the post) system of election.


2003 Renfrewshire Council election
Labour retained their dominance of the council, with the SNP, who won the popular vote, forming the second largest party on the council.


2003 Report of the Independent Soccer Review Committee
The Independent Soccer Review Committee published a report in 2003 on the governance of soccer in Australia popularly called the Crawford Report. The committee was announced by the then Minister for Sport Rod Kemp and the Australian Parliament after extensive media publicity surrounding alleged mismanagement and corruption in the previous governing body, Soccer Australia. The impetus for reform was more acute after the public had witnessed the spectacle of the 2002 FIFA World Cup which contrasted with the near-bankrupt state of the local game.


2003 Report of the Independent Soccer Review Committee, Precursor
A series of incidents highlighted the critical state of Soccer in Australia:


2003 Report of the Independent Soccer Review Committee, Objectives
The stated objectives of the review were published as follows:


2003 Report of the Independent Soccer Review Committee, Outcomes
Despite initial attempts to scuttle the reform process, the majority of reforms and recommendations have been implemented by the National and State Football Associations. In particular, resistance to reforms at the National level were largely destroyed by the threat of the Australian Sports Commission to withhold funding to Soccer Australia. Restructuring of the governance of the Associations has led to a more democratic approach and the enfranchisement of groups not previously represented (e.g. referees, women's players, etc.). In more substantial terms, it led to the resignation of the Soccer Australia board en masse.


2003 Report of the Independent Soccer Review Committee, Outcomes
The replacement body, the Football Federation of Australia was established with a board led by Frank Lowy. The decision to establish a new governing body was made after the then Australian Soccer Association, now Football Federation Australia chairman Frank Lowy stated that the state of the existing governing body was not repairable and that there was no reasonable prospects of Soccer Australia ever being in a state to be reconstituted.


2003 Report of the Independent Soccer Review Committee, Outcomes
The Frank Lowy led board completely replaced the organisation with a new one called Football Federation Australia It has achieved financial stability. It has acquired high profile sponsors including Foxtel and Hyundai. The relaunched domestic competition (the Hyundai A-League) can be seen as a by-product of the recommendations of the Independent Soccer Review Committee's report to change the form and organisation of domestic competition within Australia.


2003 Restormel Borough Council election
Elections to Restormel Borough Council were held on 1 May 2003. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1999 increasing the number of seats by one. The council stayed under no overall control.


2003 Restormel Borough Council election, Results
Two Independents and one Liberal Democrat councillor were elected unopposed.


2003 Rhein Fire season
The 2003 Rhein Fire season was the ninth season for the franchise in the NFL Europe League (NFLEL). The team was led by head coach Pete Kuharchek in his third year, and played its home games at Arena AufSchalke in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. They finished the regular season in second place with a record of six wins and four losses. In World Bowl XI, Rhein lost to the Frankfurt Galaxy 35–16.


2003 Rhode Island Rams football team
The 2003 Rhode Island Rams football team was an American football team that represented the University of Rhode Island in the Atlantic 10 Conference during the 2003 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In their fourth season under head coach Tim Stowers, the Rams compiled a 4–8 record (3–6 against conference opponents) and tied for eighth place in the conference.


2003 Rice Owls baseball team
The 2003 Rice Owls baseball team represented Rice University in the 2003 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Owls played their home games at Reckling Park. The team was coached by Wayne Graham in his 12th season at Rice.


2003 Rice Owls baseball team
The Owls won 30 consecutive games to open the season 33-1 and won the Western Athletic Conference championship. Rice went on to win the College World Series, defeating the Stanford Cardinal in the championship series. It was the first national title that Rice had ever won in a team sport in the school's 91-year history.


2003 Rice Owls baseball team, Owls in the 2003 MLB Draft
The following members of the Rice Owls baseball program were drafted in the 2003 Major League Baseball Draft.


2003 Rice Owls football team
The 2003 Rice Owls football team represented Rice University in the 2003 NCAA Division I-A college football season. The Owls, led by head coach Ken Hatfield, played their home games at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas.


2003 Richmond Spiders football team
The 2003 Richmond Spiders football team represented the University of Richmond during the 2003 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Richmond competed as a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10), and played their home games at the University of Richmond Stadium.


2003 Richmond Spiders football team
The Spiders were led by ninth-year head coach Jim Reid and finished the regular season with a 2–9 overall record and 1–8 record in conference play.


2003 Richmondshire District Council election
The 2003 Richmondshire District Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Richmondshire District Council in North Yorkshire, England. The whole council was up for election  with boundary changes since the last election in 1999. The council stayed under no overall control.


2003 Richmondshire District Council election, Background
Before the election the council was run by the independents with support from the Conservatives, while the Liberal Democrats formed the opposition. The independents were divided into two groups after the Richmondshire Independent Group split from the Richmondshire Association of Independent Councillors in 2001.


2003 Richmondshire District Council election, Background
Almost a third of the councillors stood down at the 2003 election, including a former chairperson of the council, Jane Metcalfe, and the Liberal Democrat group leader, Richard Good. Other councillors who stood down included Alison Appleton, Colin Bailey, Grace Buckle, Sylvia Golding, Mike Graham, Terry Jones, Andrea Robson and Nigel Watson.


2003 Richmondshire District Council election, Background
A total of 56 candidates stood in 2003, with several being elected without opposition, however there were no candidates from the Labour party. The two groups of independents stood against each in several wards including Colburn, Hornby Castle and Melsonby. Meanwhile, the leader of the council, John Blackie, contested the election as a Conservative after having previously led the Richmondshire Association of Independent Councillors.


2003 Richmondshire District Council election, Election result
The Conservatives became the largest group on the council with 11 councillors, after gaining four seats, but without a majority. Nine independents were elected, a gain of four, while the Liberal Democrats dropped two to have eight councillors.


2003 Richmondshire District Council election, Election result
The council leader John Blackie held his seat in Hawes as a Conservative, while councillors who were defeated included Liberal Democrat Patrick Brennan in Catterick, Richmondshire Independent Helen Grant and Katherine Kerr in Richmond Central. Overall turnout at the election was 37.69%, down from 40.22% in 1999.


2003 Richmondshire District Council election, Election result
Following the election Yvonne Peacock became leader of the Conservative group, Richard Dunn leader of the Richmondshire Association of Independent Councillors, John Harris leader of the Liberal Democrat group and Paul Cullen leader of the Richmondshire Independent Group. Conservative John Blackie continued as leader of the council, defeating a challenge from the Liberal Democrat group leader John Harris.


2003 Richmondshire District Council election, By-elections between 2003 and 2007
A by-election was held in Gilling West on 2 November 2006 after the resignation of independent councillor John Cronin. The seat was won by independent William Heslop with a majority of 116 votes over Conservative candidate Margaret Turnbull.


2003 Ringera Judiciary Report
The 2003 Ringera Judiciary Report  was a Kenya Government report published by the Integrity and Anti- Corruption Committee of the Judiciary in Kenya in order to implement a policy known as radical surgery introduced by the new government of President Mwai Kibaki. The committee was led by Justice Aaron Ringera.


2003 Ringera Judiciary Report, Impact and aftermath
From the report 5 of 9 Court of Appeal Justices, 18 of 36 High Court Judges and 82 out of 254 Magistrates were implicated as corrupt. A two-week ultimatum to either resign or be dismissed was issued to these Justices and Magistrates. Several resigned or “retired”, while some mounted legal challenges against their dismissals. Tribunals to hear these cases then begun. Justice Philip Waki was acquitted in late 2004.


2003 Rink Hockey World Championship
The 2003 Rink Hockey World Championship was the 36th edition of the Rink Hockey World Championship, held between 27 September and 4 October 2003, in Oliveira de Azeméis, Portugal.


2003 Rink Hockey World Championship, Format
The competition was disputed by 16 countries, divided in four groups of 4 teams each one.


2003 Rink Hockey World Championship, Format
Every game lasted 40 minutes, divided in 2 parts of 20 minutes.


2003 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2003 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix was the twelfth round of the 2003 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 18–20 September 2003 at Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet.


2003 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix
The 125cc race marked the first Grand Prix motorcycle racing victory for a young Jorge Lorenzo.


2003 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (motoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round twelve has concluded.


2003 Riojan regional election
The 2003 Riojan regional election was held on Sunday, 25 May 2003, to elect the 6th Parliament of the autonomous community of La Rioja. All 33 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.


2003 Riojan regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The Parliament of La Rioja was the devolved, unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of La Rioja, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution and the Riojan Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a President of the Autonomous Community. Voting for the Parliament was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in La Rioja and in full enjoyment of their political rights.


2003 Riojan regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The 33 members of the Parliament of La Rioja were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied regionally.


2003 Riojan regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The electoral law provided that parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors were allowed to present lists of candidates. However, groupings of electors were required to secure the signature of at least 1 percent of the electors registered in La Rioja. Electors were barred from signing for more than one list of candidates. Concurrently, parties and federations intending to enter in coalition to take part jointly at an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election being called.


2003 Riojan regional election, Overview, Election date
The term of the Parliament of La Rioja expired four years after the date of its previous election. Elections to the Parliament were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years. The previous election was held on 13 June 1999, setting the election date for the Parliament on Sunday, 25 May 2003.


2003 Riojan regional election, Overview, Election date
The President of the Autonomous Community had the prerogative to dissolve the Parliament of La Rioja and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process, no nationwide election was due and some time requirements were met: namely, that dissolution did not occur either during the first legislative session or within the legislature's last year ahead of its scheduled expiry, nor before one year has elapsed since a previous dissolution.


2003 Riojan regional election, Overview, Election date
In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional President within a two-month period from the first ballot, the Parliament was to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called. Any snap election held as a result of these circumstances would not alter the period to the next ordinary election, with elected deputies merely serving out what remained of their four-year terms.


2003 Rivers State gubernatorial election
The 2003 Rivers State gubernatorial election occurred on April 19, 2003. Incumbent Governor PDP's Peter Odili won election for a second term, defeating ANPP's Sergeant Awuse and two other candidates.


2003 Rivers State gubernatorial election
Peter Odili emerged winner in the PDP gubernatorial primary election. His running mate was Gabriel Toby.


2003 Rivers State gubernatorial election, Electoral system
The Governor of Rivers State is elected using the plurality voting system.


2003 Rivers State gubernatorial election, Results
A total of four candidates registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission to contest in the election. PDP Governor Peter Odili won re-election for a second term, defeating ANPP's Sergeant Awuse and two other candidates.


2003 Rivers State gubernatorial election, Results
The total number of registered voters in the state was 2,272,238. However, only 92.93% (i.e. 2,111,625) of registered voters participated in the exercise.


2003 Road America 500
The 2003 Road America 500 was the sixth race of the 2003 American Le Mans Series season. It took place at Road America, Wisconsin on August 24, 2003.


2003 Road America 500, Official results
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).


2003 Robert Morris Colonials football team
The 2003 Robert Morris Colonials football team represented Robert Morris University as a member of the Northeast Conference (NEC) during the 2003 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Colonials were led by 10th-year head coach Joe Walton and played their home games at Moon Stadium on the campus of Moon Area High School.


2003 Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council election
Elections to Rochdale Council were held on 1 May 2003. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour Party lost overall control of the council to no overall control.


2003 Rochford District Council election
Elections to Rochford Council were held on 1 May 2003. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.


2003 Roger Federer tennis season
Roger Federer won his first Major title at Wimbledon, when he defeated Mark Philippoussis in the final, 7–6(7–5), 6–2, 7–6(7–3). Federer won his first and only doubles Masters Series 1000 Event in Miami with Max Mirnyi, and made it to one singles Masters Series 1000 final in Rome on clay, which he lost. Federer made it to nine finals on the ATP Tour, of which he won seven, including the 500 series events at Dubai and Vienna. Lastly, Federer won the Year-End Championships over Andre Agassi.


2003 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Early hard court season
Federer began the 2003 season as the world number 6, with the stated goal of capturing his first career Grand Slam title. However, early loses in Doha to Jan-Michael Gambill and as defending champion in Sydney to Franco Squillari kicked off the year in an ominous fashion.


2003 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Early hard court season
In the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, Federer entered as the sixth seed and had a good chance to win his first Grand Slam when his draw opened up with the quick elimination of major rivals Marat Safin and Lleyton Hewitt. Federer entered the round of 16 without having dropped a set and faced his early nemesis David Nalbandian of Argentina. The match was a back-and-forth struggle, however, Federer ended up losing the five set match 4–6, 6–3, 1–6, 6–1, 3–6.


2003 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Early hard court season
He then won two hard-court tournaments in Marseille and Dubai, defeating Jonas Björkman and Jiří Novák respectively. These two tournament victories constituted his fifth and sixth career singles titles. Back in the United States Federer had disappointing results at the Masters Series tournaments in Indian Wells and Key Biscayne. He was upset in early-round matches by a pair of former French Open champions, Gustavo Kuerten and Albert Costa.


2003 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Clay court season
On clay, Federer won the tournament in Munich defeating Finn Jarkko Nieminen 6–1, 6–4. This was his seventh career title and second career clay court title. Following this victory, Federer began his preparation for the French Open by competing in the clay masters tournaments in Rome and Hamburg. He reached the finals of Rome dropping only a single set, but was upset in a shocking defeat to the unseeded Spaniard Felix Mantilla 5–7, 2–6, 6–7(8). In Hamburg, the final tuneup before the French Open, Federer was defeated in the third round by Australian Mark Philippoussis 3–6, 6–2, 3–6.


2003 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Clay court season
His victory in Munich and finals showing in Rome launched Federer into the conversation as a favorite to win the French. Federer, seeded number five, was determined to prove himself at the French Open in 2003 after losing in the first round the year before. His opponent in the first round was Luis Horna of Peru who ranked number 88 in the world. Federer started out well, jumping out to a 5–3 lead in the first set before imploding and losing the match 6–7(6), 2–6, 6–7(3). After the nightmarish match where Federer committed an astounding 82 unforced errors he stated, "I don't know how long I'll need to get over this defeat. A day, a week, a year—or my entire career."


2003 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Grass court season
Two weeks after his crushing defeat in the first round of the French Open, Federer began the grass court season. He competed in the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany. Federer quickly wiped away the bitter defeat in France by reaching the finals and defeating German Nicolas Kiefer 6–1, 6–3. This was Federer's first title on grass and it propelled him to odds of 5:1 to win Wimbledon at the British betting offices—behind only Americans Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick.


2003 Roger Federer tennis season, Year summary, Grass court season
Federer entered Wimbledon as the fourth seed and quickly raced through the first three rounds. In the fourth round he faced Feliciano López and was victorious in straight sets even though he had to take numerous injury timeouts for a serious lower back injury sustained in the match warm-up. In the quarterfinals Federer was fortunate that the match was delayed because of rain and was able to rest his injury for two whole days. When the quarterfinals finally began Federer defeated the eighth seed Sjeng Schalken of the Netherlands.