2002 Sure for Men Rockingham 500, Race
The weather at the start was cloudy with an air temperature between 16 and 18 °C (61 and 64 °F) and a track temperature from 18 and 20 °C (64 and 68 °F). An estimated 30,000 people attended the event. CART set the mandatory pit stop window to a maximum of 47 laps, requiring every driver to make at least four pit stops. Grace commanded the drivers to start their engines. The race began at 1:36 p.m. local time. Bräck maintained the lead into the first turn. Tagliani drove alongside his teammate Carpentier and overtook him for ninth place.


2002 Sure for Men Rockingham 500, Race
Serviá moved from 14th to tenth by the end of the first lap, but fell to eleventh when another car passed him. He returned to tenth soon after. Junqueira was passed by Tagliani for seventh on lap three. After starting from 12th, Fittipaldi dropped to the rear of the field and was slower than the leading drivers.


2002 Sure for Men Rockingham 500, Race
Tracy slowed without warning on lap 13 in the second turn with a power steering issue, and the first caution of the race was displayed two laps later when he stopped under the white line on the back straight with a gearbox problem requiring course officials to remove his car from the track. His engine's telemetry stopped working indicating a crank sensor failure, possibly caused by his gearbox problem.


2002 Sure for Men Rockingham 500, Race
Some drivers elected to make pit stops under caution. Fittipaldi had his engine control unit and spark box changed on lap 17 after he reported a problem with his car. Bräck remained the leader at the lap-21 restart and pulled away from the rest of the field. Andretti began to reduce the gap between Bräck and himself between laps 31 and 33. Tagliani reduced his pace between the second and third turns on lap 42, and was ordered by his engineer to enter the pit lane.


2002 Sure for Men Rockingham 500, Race
His crew removed his car's left sidepod and retired on the next lap with a battery problem. A second caution was necessitated on the 46th lap when debris was located in turn two. The leaders made their pit stops because of the mandatory pit stop window. Fittipaldi's car problem re-emerged on the 44th lap despite having his vehicle's coils and springs changed; he drove to the pit lane to retire because his team's mechanics could not rectify the issue. Franchitti stalled his car because of a clutch issue. Bräck maintained the lead at the lap-52 restart, followed by Takagi. Nine laps later, Takagi attempted to overtake Bräck on the outside for the lead but was unsuccessful due to the presence of slower cars.


2002 Sure for Men Rockingham 500, Race
Nakano lost grip in the front of his vehicle and went straight into the turn four wall on the same lap. He heavily damaged his car's right-hand side prompting a third caution. Nakano slid through the infield and stopped unhurt on the frontstretch. Bräck led the field back up to speed at the lap-70 restart, with Takagi in second. Green-flag pit stops began on lap 94, with Bräck stopping on the same lap and Franchitti became the leader. It was part of Franchitti's strategy, devised by his team manager Kyle Moyer, to drive in clean air.


2002 Sure for Men Rockingham 500, Race
Andretti was required to serve a stop-and-go penalty, which he took on the 103rd lap, after he was observed speeding in the pit lane. Franchitti made his pit stop four laps later and Manning took the lead. Manning made his pit stop on lap 114 and Bräck reclaimed the lead. After starting from 16th, Dixon was running in sixth by the 126th lap. He served two stop-and-go penalties because he was twice observed exceeding the pit lane speed limit, while Domínguez was similarly penalised.


2002 Sure for Men Rockingham 500, Race
The third round of green-flag pit stops commenced fifteen laps later when Bräck became the first driver to stop. Franchitti inherited the lead until he made his pit stop on lap 143, handing it to Manning. This meant Manning became the first driver to lead on his début CART race twice. The fourth caution was necessitated on the 155th lap when Manning's right-hand rear wing endplate detached and landed on the track between the first and second turns. Manning made a pit stop but his crew elected not to repair his rear wing.


2002 Sure for Men Rockingham 500, Race
It assisted in making his car develop less understeer and slightly improved its balance. Racing resumed on lap 163 with Bräck leading a single-file restart. The left side of Kanaan's car collided heavily with the wall on the backstraight six laps later, triggering the fifth (and final) caution. All drivers including Bräck made pit stops under caution. A crew member on Bräck's team dropped a left-rear wheel nut dropping him to ninth. Fernández was observed speeding and was required to move to the rear of the field. Da Matta's team were slow to fit his right-rear tyre preventing him from taking the first position and he emerged in second.


2002 Sure for Men Rockingham 500, Race
Franchitti gained the lead and held it at the lap-180 restart. Junqueira attempted to pass Servià on the inside for fourth but was unsuccessful. Carpentier attempted to pressure da Matta towards the end but found it difficult to overtake and he did not want to be aggressive by going off the racing line. Vasser set the race's fastest lap during the 210th (and penultimate) lap, competing a circuit of 25.217 seconds.


2002 Sure for Men Rockingham 500, Race
Franchitti maintained the lead for the remainder of the race and crossed the start-finish line after 211 laps to take his third victory of the season, his first win on an oval track in CART, and the tenth of his career. Da Matta was second, ahead of Carpentier in third, Servià was fourth and Junqueira fifth. Takagi, Vasser, Bräck, Manning, and Andretti rounded out the top ten finishers. Jourdain, Dixon, and Domínguez were the final classified finishers. There were nine lead changes in the race; four drivers reached the front of the field. Bräck's total of 134 laps led was the highest of any competitor. Franchitti led three times, for a total of 58 laps.


2002 Sure for Men Rockingham 500, Race, Post-race
The top three drivers appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and spoke to the media at a press conference. Franchitti was happy with the victory, saying that he did not believe that it would be different to win at the track but that it was "very, very special". He said that after his first pit stop he did not think that he would be able to win the race. Da Matta stated that he was worried about his advantage in the points standings and felt he had the car to win the event.


2002 Sure for Men Rockingham 500, Race, Post-race
He added that he could not relax because other drivers still had a mathematical chance of clinching the championship, though he was pleased with the result. Third-place finisher Carpentier said he was happy with his position and that it was a good day for his team. He revealed that changes made to his aerodynamic setup worked on the rolling restarts although it slowed him on the backstraight. Franchitti's race engineer Allen McDonald praised his driver, saying his first victory on an oval track was one that he would remember and that it was an "unbelievable day".


2002 Sure for Men Rockingham 500, Race, Post-race
Manning said while his ninth-place result in his début race was one his team felt was a "fantastic result", he spoke of his disappointment that he was unable to get practice runs before qualifying as he felt that he could have started in a higher position. Bräck stated that he lost the chance of victory when a crew member dropped a wheel nut on his final pit stop, saying: "There is something hanging over us. I do my part, they do their part. When everyone is having a good day you win. If not, you lose."


2002 Sure for Men Rockingham 500, Race, Post-race
Fernández was angry with the pit lane speeding penalty, saying he felt he could have achieved a better finishing position and that the rule on pit lane speeding could "ruin your day". After the race, he spent several hours discussing the penalty with race officials. John Lopes, the CART Vice President of Racing Operations, later stated that the series would investigate the rules regarding pit lane speeding penalties but affirmed that no action could be taken until after the season's end.


2002 Sure for Men Rockingham 500, Race, Post-race
Rick Broadbent, writing in The Times, said that due to his victory, Franchitti should have become "a household name" and felt that his future career prospects would be unhindered. Mike Nicks in The Observer called Franchitti's win "the greatest of his career", while Jim McGill of Scotland on Sunday noted that while Formula One was promoted as the fastest and most glamorous motorsport, he wrote of his feeling that Franchitti's victory allowed CART to showcase its more "dramatic" action.


2002 Sure for Men Rockingham 500, Race, Post-race
Grace remarked on the possible implications of Franchitti's success on the promotion of CART in the United Kingdom, "If that doesn't sell this sport to Britain then I don't know what will." The Stamford Mercury & Citizen said the sound of the cars at the circuit was "one of those sporting moments which stand up the hairs on the back of your head."


2002 Sure for Men Rockingham 500, Race, Post-race
The result increased da Matta's advantage over Junqueira in the Drivers' Championship by five points. Franchitti remained in third place but decreased his deficit to sit seven points behind Junqueira. Carpentier kept fourth place with 115 points, and Fittipaldi remained in fifth on 98 points. Toyota extended their lead over Honda in the Manufacturers' Championship to be 32 points ahead. Ford Cosworth maintained third position on 192 points, with four races left in the season.


2002 Sure for Men Rockingham 500, Race, Post-race
Highlights of the event were shown the day after in the United Kingdom on the BBC Two sports programme Sunday Grandstand with commentary provided by former racing drivers Johnny Herbert and Charlie Cox. 60 million television viewers in 190 countries watched the race. The event was the last to be held at the Rockingham Motor Speedway as it was announced in December 2002 that the United Kingdom race would be moved to Brands Hatch, Kent.


2002 Suwon Samsung Bluewings season
The 2002 Suwon Samsung Bluewings season was Suwon Samsung Bluewings's seventh season in the K-League in Republic of Korea. Suwon Samsung Bluewings is competing in K-League, League Cup, Korean FA Cup, Asian Club Championship and Asian Super Cup.


2002 Suwon Samsung Bluewings season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2002 Svenska Cupen
Svenska Cupen 2002 was the forty-seventh season of the main Swedish football Cup. The competition started on 1 April 2002 and concluded on 9 November 2002 with the Final, held at Råsunda Stadium, Solna Municipality in Stockholms län. Djurgårdens IF won the final 1–0 against AIK.


2002 Svenska Cupen, First round
There were 34 matches played between 1 April and 16 April 2002. There were 68 teams in the first round from Division 1, Division 2 and Division 3, but also including a few teams from Division 4 and Division 5.


2002 Svenska Cupen, Second round
In this round the 34 winning teams from the previous round were joined by 30 teams from Allsvenskan and Superettan. The 32 matches were played between 23 April and 4 May 2002.


2002 Svenska Cupen, Third round
The 16 matches in this round were played between 7 May and 17 May 2002.


2002 Svenska Cupen, Fourth round
The 8 matches in this round were played between 26 June and 27 June 2002.


2002 Svenska Cupen, Quarter-finals
The 4 matches in this round were played between 18 July and 26 July 2002.


2002 Svenska Cupen, Final
The final was played on 9 November 2002 at the Råsunda Stadium.


2002 Svenska Cupen Final
The 2002 Svenska Cupen final took place on 9 November 2002 at Råsunda Stadium in Solna. The match was contested by the Stockholm rivals AIK and Allsvenskan champions Djurgården. Substitute Louay Chanko scored the winning goal in extra time after a pass from Johan Elmander and secured "The Double" for Djurgården.


2002 Swale Borough Council election
The 2002 Swale Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of Swale Borough Council in Kent, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 reducing the number of seats by two. The Conservative Party gained overall control of the council from no overall control.


2002 Swale Borough Council election, Election result
The Conservatives gained control of the council after taking 10 seats from the Liberal Democrats. Overall turnout at the election was 31.66%.


2002 Swedish Football Division 3
Statistics of Swedish football Division 3 for the 2002 season.


2002 Swedish Golf Tour
The 2002 Swedish Golf Tour, known as the Telia Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 19th season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments held in Sweden.


2002 Swedish Golf Tour
A number of the tournaments also featured on the 1999 Challenge Tour (CHA) and the Nordic Golf League (NGL). Sweden's oldest golf club, Göteborg GC, hosted its first SGT event this year, in conjunction with its centennial celebration. The total purse for the season was SEK 4,725,000.


2002 Swedish Golf Tour, Schedule
The season consisted of 15 events played between May and September.


2002 Swedish Golf Tour (women)
The 2002 Swedish Golf Tour, known as the Telia Tour for sponsorship reasons, was the 17th season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments for women held in Sweden, Denmark and Finland.


2002 Swedish Golf Tour (women)
Anna Becker won two events and Riikka Hakkarainen from Finland won the Order of Merit, the first non-Swedish season champion.


2002 Swedish Golf Tour (women), Schedule
The season consisted of 12 tournaments played between May and September, where one event was held in Finland and one in Denmark.


2002 Swedish Open
The 2002 Swedish Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Båstad in Sweden and was part of the International Series of the 2002 ATP Tour. It was the 55th edition of the tournament and ran from 8 July until 14 July 2002. Third-seeded Carlos Moyá won the singles title.


2002 Swedish Open, Finals, Doubles
Jonas Björkman /  Todd Woodbridge defeated  Paul Hanley /  Michael Hill 7–6(8–6), 6–4


2002 Swedish Open – Doubles
Karsten Braasch and Jens Knippschild were the defending champions but only Braasch competed that year with Thomas Shimada.


2002 Swedish Open – Doubles
Braasch and Shimada lost in the first round to David Adams and Andrew Kratzmann.


2002 Swedish Open – Doubles
Jonas Björkman and Todd Woodbridge won in the final 7–6(8–6), 6–4 against Paul Hanley and Michael Hill.


2002 Swedish Open – Singles
Andrea Gaudenzi was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Gorka Fraile.


2002 Swedish Open – Singles
Carlos Moyá won in the final 6–3, 2–6, 7–5 against Younes El Aynaoui.


2002 Swedish Open – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


2002 Swedish Touring Car Championship
The 2002 Swedish Touring Car Championship season was the 7th Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) season. >Nine racing weekends at four different circuits were held in total; each round comprising two races, with the exception of Round 4 at Falkenberg (4 races), making an eighteen-round competition in total. It was the last year with the Supertouring regulations, as 2003 saw the introduction of S2000 rules. STCC was one of the last national series to give up these set of rules. Roberto Colciago won his second consecutive title driving an Audi.


2002 Swedish football Division 2
The following are the statistics of the Swedish football Division 2 for the 2002 season.


2002 Swedish general election
General elections were held in Sweden on 15 September 2002, alongside municipal and county council elections. The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in the Riksdag, winning 144 of the 349 seats.


2002 Swedish general election
After securing a confidence and supply agreement with the Left Party and the Green Party, Prime Minister Göran Persson was able to remain in his position in a third consecutive term as a minority government.


2002 Swedish general election
Although the bloc compositions were similar to 1998, the complexions of the centre-right bloc shifted radically. Under new party leader Bo Lundgren, the Moderates lost more than seven percentage points and barely held on as the largest party in its coalition. Only eight municipalities in all of Sweden had the Moderates as the largest party, six of which were in the Stockholm area. The Peoples' Party led by Lars Leijonborg, instead more than doubled its parliamentary delegation and received above 13 % of the vote. Lundgren resigned in the wake of the election, leading to the selection of future Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt as the Moderate leader.


2002 Swedish general election
Among the four other Riksdag parties, the Christian Democrats and the Left Party both lost ground, whereas the Centre and Green parties managed to reach the parliamentary threshold of four percentage points.


2002 Swedish general election
Among minor parties, the Norrbotten Party reached 9.4 % of the vote in its county, polling above 20 % in some inland areas, although this was not enough to gain a Riksdag seat. The Sweden Democrats became the eight largest party for the first time, making sizeable gains and winning more council seats than ever before.


2002 Swedish general election, Results
¹ New Democracy was actually dissolved by the time of the election and did not run, but some voters wrote the party name on an empty ballot anyway.


2002 Swedish general election, Results, By municipality
Votes by municipality. The municipalities are the color of the party that got the most votes within the coalition that won relative majority.


2002 Swedish general election, Results, By municipality
Cartogram of the map to the left with each municipality rescaled to the number of valid votes cast.


2002 Swedish general election, Results, By municipality
Map showing the voting shifts from the 1998 to the 2002 election. Darker blue indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that formed the centre-right bloc. Darker red indicates a municipality voted more towards the parties that form the left-wing bloc.


2002 Swedish general election, Results, By municipality
Votes by municipality as a scale from red/Left-wing bloc to blue/Centre-right bloc.


2002 Swedish general election, Results, By municipality
Cartogram of vote with each municipality rescaled in proportion to number of valid votes cast. Deeper blue represents a relative majority for the centre-right coalition, brighter red represents a relative majority for the left-wing coalition.


2002 Swedish local elections
Local elections were held in Sweden on Sunday 15 September 2002 to elect county councils and municipal councils. The elections were held alongside general elections.


2002 Swindon Borough Council election
The 2002 Swindon Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of Swindon Unitary Council in Wiltshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.


2002 Swindon Borough Council election, Voting pilot
The election in Swindon was one of thirty that trialed different methods of voting or counting in the 2002 local elections, with Swindon having a trial of voting via the internet. The trial results had 5% of voters using the phone to cast a vote and over 10% voting via the internet. A survey in Swindon found that those who voted via the Internet were more likely to be younger and male than those who voted at a polling station. Overall turnout in the election was 31.33%.


2002 Swiss Figure Skating Championships
The 2002 Swiss Figure Skating Championships (officially named German: Schweizermeisterschaften Elite Kunstlaufen und Eistanzen and French: Championnats Suisses Elite Patinage Artistique et Danse sur Glace) were held in Zürich-Oerlikon from December 20 through 22, 2001. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing.


2002 Swiss referendums
Eight referendums were held in Switzerland during 2002. The first two were held on 3 March on popular initiatives for Switzerland to join the United Nations and to reduce working hours. UN membership was approved, whilst the shorter working hours proposal was rejected. The next two were held on 2 June on amending the penal code regarding abortion, which was approved, and a popular initiative "for mother and child", which was rejected.


2002 Swiss referendums
The next set referendums was held on 22 September, with a popular initiative on adding surplus gold reserves to the country's pension fund and a counter-proposal, as well as a federal law on the electricity market. All three were rejected. The final two referendums were held on 24 November on a popular initiative "against misuse of asylum rights" and a federal law on compulsory unemployment insurance and compensation for insolvencies. The asylum proposal was rejected, whilst the federal law was approved.


2002 Swiss referendums, Results
In the referendum with the counter-proposal voters could also give no answer. For the main question 53,237 voters (2.5%) did not answer, whilst for the counter-proposal 80,432 (3.8%) did not answer.


2002 Swisscom Challenge
The 2002 Swisscom Challenge was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 19th edition of the event known as the Zurich Open, and was part of the Tier I Series of the 2002 WTA Tour. It took place at the Schluefweg in Zürich, Switzerland, from 13 October through 20 October 2002. Unseeded Patty Schnyder won the singles title.


2002 Swisscom Challenge, Finals, Doubles
Elena Bovina /  Justine Henin defeated  Jelena Dokic /  Nadia Petrova, 6–2, 7–6(7–2)


2002 Swisscom Challenge – Doubles
Lindsay Davenport and Lisa Raymond were the defending champions, but Raymond did not compete this year. Davenport teamed up with Chanda Rubin and lost in quarterfinals to tournament winners Elena Bovina and Justine Henin.


2002 Swisscom Challenge – Doubles
Bovina and Henin won the title by defeating Jelena Dokic and Nadia Petrova 6–2, 7–6(7–2) in the final. It was the 6th title for Bovina and the 2nd title for Henin in their respective doubles careers.


2002 Swisscom Challenge – Doubles
This tournament saw an unusual event, as all seeded pairs were eliminated in their first match.


2002 Swisscom Challenge – Singles
Lindsay Davenport was the defending champion, but lost in the final to tournament winner Patty Schnyder 6–7(5–7), 7–6(10–8), 6–3.


2002 Swisscom Challenge – Singles
It was the 1st title in the season for Schnyder and the 8th title of her career.


2002 Swisscom Challenge – Singles, Seeds
The first four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2002 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
The 2002 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, sponsored by Rolex, was the 58th annual running of the "blue water classic" Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. As in past editions of the race, it was hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia based in Sydney, New South Wales.


2002 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
As with previous Sydney to Hobart Yacht Races, the 2002 edition began on Sydney Harbour, at noon on Boxing Day (26 December 2002), before heading south for 630 nautical miles (1,170 km) through the Tasman Sea, past Bass Strait, into Storm Bay and up the River Derwent, to cross the finish line in Hobart, Tasmania.


2002 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
The 2002 fleet comprised 57 starters of which 53 completed the race and 4 yachts retired.


2002 Syracuse Orangemen football team
The 2002 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Orange were coached by Paul Pasqualoni and played their home games at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, New York.


2002 São Paulo FC season
The 2002 season was São Paulo's 73rd season since club's existence. The club became a runners-up of Torneio Rio – São Paulo losing the final to rival Corinthians.


2002 São Paulo FC season
Exceptionally this year the main clubs from state like Santos, Corinthians and Palmeiras along São Paulo did not participated of Campeonato Paulista to not overload the number of games in calendar, with two tournaments being disputed at same time, Torneio Rio – São Paulo and Campeonato Paulista, then was created only this year the Supercampeonato paulista played by Corinthians (Torneio Rio-São Paulo winners), São Paulo (Torneio Rio-São Paulo runners-up), Palmeiras (Torneio Rio-São Paulo third place) and Ituano (Campeonato Paulista winners). Tricolor won the title against Ituano, 2-2 (away); 4-1 (home). At Copa do Brasil was defeated again by Corinthians, this time in semifinal. In Copa dos Campeões was eliminated in group stage and quarterfinals in Série A losing to rival Santos.


2002 São Paulo FC season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2002 São Toméan legislative election
Legislative elections were held in São Tomé and Príncipe on 3 March 2002.


2002 TAC Cup season
The 2002 TAC Cup season was the 11th season of the TAC Cup competition. Eastern Ranges have won there 1st premiership title after defeating the Calder Cannons in the grand final by a 1 point thriller.


2002 TCU Horned Frogs football team
The 2002 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University in the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. TCU finished with a 10–2 (6–2 C-USA) record. The team was coached by Gary Patterson and played their home games at Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on campus in Fort Worth.


2002 TD Waterhouse Cup
The 2002 TD Waterhouse Cup was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Hamlet Golf and Country Club in Jericho, New York in the United States and was part of the International Series of the 2002 ATP Tour. It was the 22nd edition of the tournament and ran from August 19 through August 25, 2002. Paradorn Srichaphan won the singles title.


2002 TD Waterhouse Cup, Champions, Men's Doubles
Mahesh Bhupathi /  Mike Bryan defeated  Petr Pála /  Pavel Vízner 6–3, 6–4


2002 TD Waterhouse Cup – Doubles
At the 2002 TD Waterhouse Cup – Doubles, Jonathan Stark and Kevin Ullyett were the defending champions but only Ullyett competed that year with Robbie Koenig.


2002 TD Waterhouse Cup – Doubles
Koenig and Ullyett lost in the first round to Petr Pála and Pavel Vízner.


2002 TD Waterhouse Cup – Doubles
Mahesh Bhupathi and Mike Bryan won in the final 6–3, 6–4 against Pála and Vízner.


2002 TD Waterhouse Cup – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


2002 TD Waterhouse Cup – Singles
Tommy Haas was the defending champion but lost in the semifinals to Paradorn Srichaphan.


2002 TD Waterhouse Cup – Singles
Srichaphan won in the final 5–7, 6–2, 6–2 against Juan Ignacio Chela.


2002 TD Waterhouse Cup – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. All sixteen seeds received a bye to the second round.


2002 TV Guide NZ Television Awards
The 2002 TV Guide NZ Television Awards were staged on Saturday 29 June 2002 in Auckland, New Zealand. Honouring excellence in New Zealand television for the previous year, the awards were sponsored by New Zealand TV Guide magazine, the final year of its eight-year period as a naming-rights sponsor of the awards. As there had been no awards in 2001, the 2002 awards also covered the 2001 awards period. The awards ceremony was not broadcast on television.


2002 TV Guide NZ Television Awards, Nominees and winners
Awards were given in 37 categories, including two people's choice awards – Best New Programme and Best Presenter.


2002 Taiwan earthquake
At 14:52 local time on 31 March 2002, an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 on the moment magnitude scale hit Taiwan. The epicenter was offshore from Hualien, which was the most severely affected area with a maximum felt intensity of VII (very strong) on the Mercalli intensity scale. At least 5 deaths have been reported, with a further 213 injured.


2002 Taiwan earthquake, Tectonic setting
Taiwan has a history of strong earthquakes. The island is located within a complex zone of convergence between the Philippine Sea Plate and Eurasian Plate. At the location of the earthquake, these plates converge at a rate of 78 mm per year. To the south of Taiwan, oceanic crust of the Eurasian Plate is subducting beneath the Philippine Sea Plate creating an island arc, the Luzon Arc. At Taiwan the oceanic crust has been entirely subducted and the arc is currently colliding with continental crust of the Eurasian Plate.


2002 Taiwan earthquake, Tectonic setting
To the north of Taiwan the Philippine Sea Plate is in contrast subducting northwards beneath the Eurasian Plate, forming the Ryukyu Arc. Within 200 km of this earthquake, there have been nine events of M≥7 during the preceding 40 years, including the M 7.7 1999 Jiji earthquake which resulted in over 2,400 deaths.


2002 Taiwan earthquake, Earthquake
The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.1 Mwc  with a hypocentral depth of 32.8 km. The depth and focal mechanism are consistent with moderate angle reverse faulting on the plate boundary interface that dips northwards beneath the western end of the Ryukyu arc.


2002 Taiwan earthquake, Tsunami
A small tsunami (20 cm) was observed on Yonaguni, in the Yaeyama Islands.


2002 Taiwan earthquake, Damage
There was significant damage to buildings in the Taipei area, with three collapsing and the destruction of about 100 houses. A high-rise building in the city, which was under construction, partly collapsed, killing five workers and injuring a further 10 people. There was disruption to supplies of electricity, water and gas. The northeastern coastal areas were affected by many landslides. In total, there were 5 deaths and 213 people reported injured.


2002 Tajik League
Tajik League is the top division of the Tajikistan Football Federation, it was created in 1992. These are the statistics of the Tajik League in the 2002 season.


2002 Talk 'N Text Phone Pals season
The 2002 Talk 'N Text Phone Pals season was the 13th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


2002 Talk 'N Text Phone Pals season, Occurrences
Center Asi Taulava and guard Patrick Fran played for Philippine-Selecta team while forward Celedon Camaso played for Philippine-Hapee during the Governor's Cup. Taulava was among the 15 players chosen to play for the national team, Fran and Camaso went back to their mother ballclub starting the Commissioner's Cup.


2002 Talk 'N Text Phone Pals season, Occurrences
Talk 'N Text coach Bill Bayno was fined by the PBA for lambasting the league and its commissioner for being a San Miguel Corporation-run league. For two conferences, the former University of Las Vegas coach has caused quite a stir with accusations and comments that cost him over P250,000 in record fines.


2002 Talk 'N Text Phone Pals season, Occurrences
Starting the All-Filipino Cup, Talk 'N Text has tapped another American coach Paul Woolpert to replaced Bill Bayno, who abandoned the Phone Pals after a short but controversial stint in the league.


2002 Talk 'N Text Phone Pals season, Finals stint
The Talk 'N Text Phone Pals reach the Commissioner's Cup finals opposite defending champion Batang Red Bull by winning over the Alaska Aces, three games to two, in their best-of-five semifinal series. The Phone Pals led in the finals series all throughout until the last two games which Red Bull won to successfully defended their Commissioner's Cup title.


2002 Taman Hillview landslide
The 2002 Taman Hillview landslide occurred on 20 November 2002 in Taman Hillview, Ulu Klang, Selangor, Malaysia, crushing the bungalow of the Affin Bank chairman General (RtD) Tan Sri Ismail Omar and killing eight people. Investigation showed the landslide occurred on an old landslide


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season
The 2002 season was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' 27th in the National Football League. It was one of the most successful seasons in franchise history as they won Super Bowl XXXVII.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season
The season began with the team trying to improve on a 9–7 season and did so with a franchise-best 12–4 record. It was Jon Gruden's first season as the Buccaneers head coach. They won the Super Bowl for the first time in the team's history, beating the Oakland Raiders 48–21. This was Tampa Bay's only Super Bowl appearance and win until 2020. The 2002 Buccaneers defense is often cited as one of the best ever, as well as one of the most potent pass defenses in league history.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Summary
In January 2002, after losing in the wild card round to the Eagles for the second consecutive year, the Buccaneers fired head coach Tony Dungy. After that they began a prolonged search for his replacement. Potential candidates included Gators head coach (and former Buccaneers quarterback) Steve Spurrier, former Giants head coach Bill Parcells, Ravens defensive coordinator Marvin Lewis, and Raiders head coach Jon Gruden. Parcells passed on the offer, while Spurrier took the job at Washington.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Summary
Tampa Bay general manager Rich McKay threw his support behind Lewis but the Glazers were displeased with the selection of yet another defensive-minded coach that they overruled McKay and took control of the candidate search themselves. They made it clear that their top choice was Gruden; however, he was still under contract with the Raiders. While talks with the Raiders were secretly underway, the Glazers publicly pursued 49ers head coach Steve Mariucci. But shortly thereafter, Al Davis agreed to release Gruden to Tampa Bay, but the move was costly. Tampa Bay paid Oakland with two first-round draft picks (2002, 2003), two second-round picks (2002, 2004) and $8 million in cash payments.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Summary
Upon his arrival in Tampa Bay, Gruden immediately went to work, acquiring former Jaguars WR Keenan McCardell, and RB Michael Pittman from the Cardinals. The Buccaneers needed to improve their sluggish offense, as the league's sweeping realignment sent them to the new NFC South division, along with Atlanta, Carolina and New Orleans.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Summary
The offense made slight improvements during the season, but the strength of the team was the defense. The 2002 Buccaneers became the first team to lead the league in total defense, points allowed, and interceptions since the 1985 Chicago Bears. They also held opposing quarterbacks to an unbelievable 48.4 passer rating for the season. With 40 interceptions, 31 in the regular season and an additional nine in the playoffs, the Buccaneers recorded the most picks of any Super Bowl winning team in history. Led by this dominating defense, the 2002 Buccaneers achieved their most successful season to date.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Summary
They won the NFC South title with the team's best ever record, 12–4, and then defeated the 49ers in what became coach Steve Mariucci’s last game with that franchise. In a surprising upset, Tampa Bay won their first NFC Championship on the road against the Eagles in the last NFL game ever played at Veterans Stadium. Cornerback Ronde Barber capped off the win by intercepting a Donovan McNabb pass and returning it 92 yards for a touchdown late in the fourth quarter.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Summary
The Buccaneers went on to rout Gruden's former team, the Oakland Raiders, by a score of 48–21 in Super Bowl XXXVII. Gruden's familiarity with the Raiders’ players and playbook paid off, as John Lynch and other Buccaneer players recognized some of Oakland's formations and plays at crucial points in the game. The Bucs became the first team to win the Super Bowl without any picks in the first two rounds of the previous spring's draft, having traded these picks to the Oakland Raiders for the rights to acquire Gruden. At the time, Gruden made history by becoming the youngest head coach to win a Super Bowl.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Preseason
During the offseason, the Buccaneers signed a new deal with Walt Disney World, and moved their Training Camp from the University of Tampa to Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex outside of Orlando.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Preseason
During the first preseason game against the Miami Dolphins on Monday night August 12, which served as Jon Gruden's first coached game (albeit preseason), Frank Murphy took the opening kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown. It was the Buccaneers' fifth kickoff return touchdown in the preseason, however, at the time, the team had still never returned a kickoff for a touchdown in the regular season (and would do so not until 2007).


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. New Orleans Saints
Jon Gruden’s era in Tampa Bay began at home against new division rival, the New Orleans Saints, a team they'd soundly beaten the year before. Though heralded for his offensive expertise, the Buccaneers offense sputtered and was anemic for the first three quarters. The Saints held a 20–10 lead late in the fourth quarter, while Tampa Bay's offense had only 161 yards through three periods, and quarterback Brad Johnson was sacked three times, on a hot, humid 90° afternoon.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. New Orleans Saints
With just under three minutes remaining, Brad Johnson led the Buccaneers on touchdown drive to narrow the score to 20–17. In the final two minutes, the offense finally performed, as Johnson drove the Buccaneers to the Saints 34-yard line. Tampa Bay faced 4th down with 23 seconds to go and counting, and no timeouts remaining. Martín Gramática hurried onto the field and kicked a game-tying field goal as time expired, and forced overtime.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. New Orleans Saints
Tied 20–20 in the overtime period, Tampa Bay received, and quickly drove to the Saints 39-yard line. With the choice of a field goal attempt of over 55 yards, Gruden elected to punt. The teams traded possession twice, and with just over 4 minutes remaining in the overtime, Tampa Bay was pinned back at their own 5-yard line. Tom Tupa attempted to punt on 4th down from the endzone, but Fred McAfee was unblocked. Tupa avoided the tackle, and attempted a desperation shovel pass to John Howell from his non-throwing arm. The ball was intercepted by James Allen, standing in the confines of the endzone, and the Saints were credited with a game-winning touchdown.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Baltimore Ravens
Tampa Bay rebounded in week 2 against the Baltimore Ravens. Karl Williams returned a punt 56 yards for a touchdown, and Martín Gramática scored three field goals. Derrick Brooks sealed the victory and secured the shutout with a 97-yard interception return touchdown with 1:06 to go.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Baltimore Ravens
Prior to the start of the game the Baltimore Ravens remembered Baltimore football legend Johnny Unitas in a variety of touching ways. Once the game began, Bucs passer Brad Johnson fashioned his own fitting tribute to the legendary quarterback.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Baltimore Ravens
On one of his best days as a Buccaneer, Johnson completed over 75% of his passes as Tampa Bay picked up a road win that was mostly devoid of tension. The Bucs shared in Baltimore's emotion during the pregame, then drained all drama from the game itself by sprinting out to a 10–0 lead and rarely letting Baltimore onto its half of the field.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Baltimore Ravens
Johnson completed all five of his passes on the Bucs’ opening drive, leading to a 36-yard Martin Gramatica field goal, and WR Karl Williams followed five minutes later with a 56-yard punt return for a touchdown. Staked to a 10–0 lead, Tampa Bay's defense needed no more, pitching just the second road shut out in franchise history (the first: a 35–0 victory at Cincinnati in 1998). The Bucs’ D, somewhat perturbed at its own performance in last Sunday's opener, even tied a bow on the affair in the final minutes when LB Derrick Brooks intercepted QB Chris Redman's pass at Tampa Bay's three and returned it 97 yards for a touchdown.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. St. Louis Rams
On Monday night, the Buccaneers hosted the St. Louis Rams, continuing a brief, but budding rivalry between the two clubs. The Tampa Bay defense intercepted Kurt Warner four times, and held a 19–14 lead late in the fourth quarter.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. St. Louis Rams
With just over a minute to go, Warner drove the Rams to their 34-yard line, but Derrick Brooks intercepted his pass and returned it 39 yards for a touchdown, his second such score in two weeks. Tampa Bay won 26–14, and improved to 2–1.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at Cincinnati Bengals
Tampa Bay crushed the Bengals 35–7. Brad Johnson threw three touchdown passes (of 35 yards, 65 yards and 22 yards, respectively), while Shelton Quarles returned an interception 25 yards for a score (Tampa Bay's third defensive score in three weeks).


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at Cincinnati Bengals
If the first quarter was a minor struggle, the rest of the game was relatively easy for the Buccaneers, as signified by the first play of the second period. Brad Johnson, who had yet another strong day, pump-faked left from the Bengals' 35-yard line, drawing coverage away from Rickey Dudley down the middle of the field. Johnson then lofted a perfect pass to a wide-open Dudley for a 35-yard touchdown. It was Dudley's second score in two games as a Buccaneer.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at Cincinnati Bengals
Six minutes and two possessions later, Johnson lofted a high floater on the left sideline to another wide-open man, Keenan McCardell. McCardell had no tacklers within 20 yards of him as he trotted into the end zone for a 65-yard score.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: at Atlanta Falcons
Tampa Bay visited another new division rival, the Atlanta Falcons. The Buccaneer defense dominated yet another game, holding the Falcons to only 3 first half points, despite giving up good field position (the Falcons had a 47-yard kickoff return, a fumble recovery and a recovered onside kick).


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: at Atlanta Falcons
On the first drive of the third quarter, quarterback Michael Vick was knocked out of the game after a sack by Simeon Rice. Doug Johnson took over at quarterback for the Falcons, and did not fare well. Though the Falcons took a 6–3 lead midway through the third period, the lead was short-lived. Three plays later, Brad Johnson connected on a 76-yard touchdown pass to Keyshawn Johnson, and a 10–6 lead. After a Martín Gramática field goal stretched the lead to 13–6, Tampa Bay pinned the Falcons on their own 16-yard line with 6:24 to go in the game.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: at Atlanta Falcons
Doug Johnson was being sacked but got the ball off, which was, in turn, intercepted by Warren Sapp at the Atlanta 15-yard line. Sapp lateraled to Derrick Brooks who then ran for a touchdown. It was Tampa Bay's fourth consecutive game with a defensive score, and Brook's third of the season.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: at Atlanta Falcons
Tampa Bay won by a final score of 20–6, and improved to 4–1.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Cleveland Browns
Tampa Bay hosted Cleveland, and notched their first ever win against the Browns franchise (having lost all five meetings against the pre-1996 club) by a score of 17–3. Fullback Mike Alstott was the most notable player of the day, rushing 17 times for 126 yards and two touchdowns. In the fourth quarter, Alstott rumbled 19 yards, shaking at least seven tackles, for one of the more memorable plays of his career.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Cleveland Browns
Despite the convincing win, the Buccaneers kicking game suffered several woes. One field goal attempt was blocked, one sailed wide left, and another was foiled by a botched snap. A light rain doused the stadium in the second half.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: at Philadelphia Eagles
Derrick Brooks recovered and returned a Donovan McNabb fumble for a touchdown (his fourth defensive score of the season), but Tampa Bay could not prevail over the Eagles at Veterans Stadium, falling 20–10. It marked the third straight loss at Veterans Stadium for the Buccaneers, and the fourth straight loss overall to the Eagles.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: at Philadelphia Eagles
Early in the game, quarterback Brad Johnson suffered a rib injury, but managed to stay in the game. With 14 minutes to go, physically beaten and exhausted, Johnson lofted a pass intended for Keyshawn Johnson, and it was intercepted. He lacked strength due to the bruised rib. Brad Johnson was benched and would not return to the game. The turnover sealed the victory for the Eagles.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Carolina Panthers
Rob Johnson started for the injured Brad Johnson, and managed to guide the Buccaneers to a tough 12–9 win over the Carolina Panthers. Martín Gramática hit four field goals (32, 52, 53, and 47 yards respectively) for Tampa Bay's only points.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Carolina Panthers
In the final minute, tied 9–9, Rob Johnson drove the Buccaneers into Carolina territory. With 21 seconds to go, Johnson scrambled for a 9-yard run, and was pushed out of bounds at the Carolina 35. But he was injured on the play. Third-string quarterback Shaun King scurried off the bench cold, and delivered a clutch 7-yard pass to Karl Williams. With 5 seconds to go, Gramatica kicked the game-winning field goal.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Minnesota Vikings
Brad Johnson returned to the lineup, throwing five touchdown passes (including two to Keyshawn Johnson), and a total of 313 yards, as the Buccaneers rolled 38–24 over the visiting Vikings.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Minnesota Vikings
Under Brad Johnson's jersey on Sunday was a flak jacket, designed to protect the two fractured ribs on his left side.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Minnesota Vikings
With the win, the Buccaneers moved to 7–2, tying the 1979 team for the best start in franchise history. With Green Bay (6–1) playing on Monday night and New Orleans (6–2) having the week off, Tampa Bay was the first NFC team to reach seven wins. They held a half-game edge over the Saints in the NFC South race


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Carolina Panthers
Brad Johnson threw two touchdown passes, and Martín Gramática kicked three field goals, in a 23–10 win over the Panthers. The Buccaneers swept the season series with Carolina, and posted a franchise-best 8–2 start.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Carolina Panthers
The Bucs reached that franchise high-water mark on Sunday with a 23–10 victory over Carolina, in the process moving into a tie with former division rival Green Bay for the best record in the NFL. Tampa Bay and Green Bay square off for sole possession of the league's best mark next Sunday in Raymond James Stadium.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Carolina Panthers
After the Bucs defeated Carolina, 12–9, in an "ugly" game three weeks ago in Charlotte, the rematch was billed as another defensive struggle, though with a twist. While this was indeed a matchup of the league's first and third-ranked defenses, it also marked the returns of starting quarterbacks Brad Johnson and Rodney Peete, each of whom missed the last game between the two. Statistically, Johnson and the Bucs’ defense came out on top, though Bucs Head Coach Jon Gruden complimented the Panthers’ work, as well.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Green Bay Packers
Longtime rival Green Bay came to Raymond James Stadium, with the best record in the NFC on the line. In the first quarter, Brett Favre connected on a touchdown pass to Donald Driver to take the lead 7–0. Tampa Bay scored a field goal at the end of the first half, and the score was 7–3 at halftime. The Buccaneers scored another field goal in the third quarter, narrowing the deficit to 7–6.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Green Bay Packers
On the first play of the next drive, Favre was intercepted by Brian Kelly, who returned the ball to the Packers 18-yard line. During the return, Chad Clifton was jogging downfield away from the main action and was blindsided by Warren Sapp. Clifton laid motionless on the field for several minutes and was carted off the field with a season-ending pelvic injury. The turnover led to a Brad Johnson touchdown pass to Joe Jurevicius, followed by a two-point conversion catch by Keyshawn Johnson, and a 14–7 lead.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Green Bay Packers
Ronde Barber, Dexter Jackson, and Brian Kelly intercepted three more Favre passes, and Tampa Bay won convincingly 21–7. At 9–2, the Buccaneers stood with the best record in the NFC conference. After the game, Sapp and Packers coach Mike Sherman were involved in a confrontation on the field, exchanging heated words. The Sapp hit was regarded by some as a cheap shot, but Clifton would recover fully from the injury, and Sapp defended his actions, and was not penalized by the league.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at New Orleans Saints
Mike Alstott scored a 44-yard touchdown catch, and Keenan McCardell caught another late in the game, but the Buccaneers fell to the Saints, 23–20 on Sunday Night Football. Brad Johnson was intercepted once, lost a fumble, and Aaron Stecker lost another fumble, as the Saints swept Tampa Bay for the season.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at New Orleans Saints
The Bucs, leading the NFL in turnover differential entering the weekend, had a difficult time holding onto the ball, fumbling four times and losing two of those loose balls. QB Brad Johnson was also intercepted for the first time in four games, and those three giveaways, plus a pair of long returns by Michael Lewis in the third quarter turned a 9–6 halftime lead into a 20–9 deficit. It was a lead the Saints never relinquished.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at New Orleans Saints
Brooks got off to a slow start, completing just one pass for two yards in the first quarter, but he heated up in the second and third periods, engineering one first-half touchdown drive and throwing two scoring passes in the third quarter. By the end of the game, he had a strange mix of numbers, completing just nine of 25 passes for 155 yards but throwing two touchdowns and no picks. Added to his two-touchdown day in a season-opening, 26–20, overtime Saints win in Tampa, Brooks has four TD passes against Tampa Bay this season; the rest of the league has three in 10 games.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Atlanta Falcons
Falcons quarterback Michael Vick entered the game with considerable pregame hype and an eight-game unbeaten streak. Vick, however, was sacked twice by Tampa Bay, and held to only 125 yards passing and a measly 15 yards rushing. Meanwhile, Brad Johnson connected on four touchdowns (two apiece to Jurevicius and McCardell) as the Buccaneers won 34–10.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Atlanta Falcons
In two games against Tampa Bay, Vick has completed just 16 passes for 162 yards, one touchdown and one interception. On October six, Vick completed just four of 12 passes for 37 yards before sustaining an injured shoulder on a third-down Simeon Rice sack. He was hit hard several times on this Sunday as well, as the Bucs’ pass rush was relentless, but never left the game.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Atlanta Falcons
Plus, any thought that the second-year scrambler would run wild on the Bucs’ defense effectively ended on the third play of the game when LB Derrick Brooks hit him square in the chest after a one-yard scramble. After rushing just one time for one yard in the first Bucs–Falcons contest, Vick ran five times.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Atlanta Falcons
With the victory, Tampa Bay maintained its grip on first place in the NFC South with three weeks remaining. By game's end, the Bucs had a 1.5-game lead on both Atlanta and New Orleans, though the Saints’ late-afternoon game would either expand Tampa Bay's edge to two games or shrink it to one. The Bucs also became the first NFL team to 10 wins, at 10–3, as the 9–3 Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers were also scheduled for later games.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Detroit Lions
Mike Alstott and Michael Pittman each scored a rushing touchdown, but the visiting Buccaneers found themselves still tied 20–20 late in the fourth quarter with the 3–10 Lions. With 3:04 to go, Martín Gramática broke the tie with a 38-yard field goal, and Tampa Bay held on for a 23–20 victory.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: at Detroit Lions
Injuries plagued the Buccaneers that week, as John Lynch sat out the game with a neck strain. Keyshawn Johnson left the game with a groin injury, and Anthony McFarland broke his right foot and would miss the remainder of the season. Most notably, however, was quarterback Brad Johnson, who suffered a back injury during the game. He did not leave the game, but the severity of the injury was more significant than originally known. He would be sidelined during practice the following week.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
With Brad Johnson sidelined, backup quarterback Shaun King started against the Steelers on Monday night. Tampa Bay was rocked 17–7 by the visiting Steelers, the second consecutive season being beaten soundly at home by Pittsburgh.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
The night started out on a rough note even before kickoff, as during pre-game warm-ups Warren Sapp skipped through the Steelers. Jerome Bettis shoved Sapp, and this was followed by a heated argument between the two teams. The Buccaneers had also been ridiculed by Steelers' Lethon Flowers as being "paper champions."


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
On the first play of the game, Tommy Maddox's pass to Plaxico Burress gained 41 yards to the Tampa Bay 40-yard line. The Steelers drove 81 yards in only six plays, as Maddox connected with Antwaan Randle El for an 11-yard touchdown. On the second play of Tampa Bay's first drive, King was intercepted by Chad Scott, who returned the ball 30 yards for a touchdown, and a 14–0 lead less than four minutes into the game.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
Trailing 17–0, Tampa Bay kicker Martín Gramática made a 50-yard field goal, but it was negated by a Pittsburgh penalty, and instead Tampa Bay was awarded a first down at the Pittsburgh 28-yard line. Four plays later, however, Mike Alstott lost a fumble at the 7-yard line, and the Steelers took a 17–0 lead into halftime.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
Shaun King was finally benched having thrown for 73 yards and an interception on a pitiful 9-for-26. Rob Johnson took over in the second half, and salvaged the remainder of the game. With 1:23 to go, Keyshawn Johnson caught a touchdown pass, and avoided the shutout.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: at Chicago Bears
In the final week of the season, Tampa Bay traveled to Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois, to meet the Chicago Bears. A win would secure the #2 seed and a first-round bye in the playoffs. Brad Johnson sat out for the second game in a row, and Rob Johnson started the game for Tampa Bay.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: at Chicago Bears
The temperature at kickoff was 38 °F or 3.3 °C, and Tampa Bay looked to snap a 0–21 record in games under 40 °F (4 °C). Rob Johnson passed for 134 yards and no interceptions, and Michael Pittman rushed for 90 yards, but the Buccaneers offense could not score a touchdown. Martín Gramática kicked a franchise-best five field goals out of five, and his 15 points were the only scores of the game. Bears quarterback Henry Burris was intercepted four times by Tampa Bay (twice by Brian Kelly, and once each by Derrick Brooks and Dwight Smith).


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: at Chicago Bears
With the win, Tampa Bay secured a bye for the wild card round and recorded the club's first win with the temperature under 40°. The Buccaneers finished with a franchise-best 12–4 record, along with a club-best 6–2 road record.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Divisional Playoffs: vs. San Francisco 49ers
The Buccaneers hosted the 49ers, who were fresh off one of the largest comeback games in their history in the 39–38 wildcard round victory over the Giants. With the league's top-ranked defense during the 2002 regular season, the Buccaneers forced five turnovers; they intercepted quarterback Jeff Garcia three times and sacked him four times, and limited the 49ers to only two field goals. Tampa Bay quarterback Brad Johnson, who had been sidelined for a month, returned to throw for 196 yards and two touchdowns. Fullback Mike Alstott scored two touchdowns, while the Buccaneers held onto the ball for 36:46 and held the 49ers to a season-low 228 yards. This was San Francisco's first playoff game without a touchdown since 1986 and the 49ers' last playoff game until 2011.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Championship: at Philadelphia Eagles
Tampa Bay won a road playoff game for the first time in franchise history, and in temperatures below 32 °F or 0 °C, in the last football game played at Veterans Stadium. The Eagles were heavy favorites at home going into the game. The Eagles had beaten the Buccaneers four consecutive times, in the wild card round the two previous seasons, and also during regular-season games in 2001 and 2002. During the two playoff losses, both at Veterans Stadium, Tampa Bay had failed to score a single touchdown.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Championship: at Philadelphia Eagles
Eagles running back Brian Mitchell returned the opening kickoff 70 yards, setting up a 20-yard touchdown run by Duce Staley less than a minute into the game. Tampa Bay responded with Martín Gramática's 48-yard field goal on their ensuing drive. At the end of Philadelphia's next possession, Lee Johnson's punt pinned the Buccaneers back at their own 4-yard line. But Tampa Bay stormed 96 yards and scored with Mike Alstott's 1-yard touchdown run to take the lead. The key play on the drive was a 71-yard completion from Brad Johnson to Joe Jurevicius on third down and two from their own 24-yard line.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Championship: at Philadelphia Eagles
David Akers tied the score, 10–10, with a 30-yard field goal midway through the second quarter, but the Bucs responded with an 80-yard, 12-play drive that ended with a 9-yard touchdown pass from Brad Johnson to Keyshawn Johnson. With time running out in the half, Donovan McNabb led the Eagles to the Tampa Bay 24-yard line, only to lose a fumble while being sacked by his high school teammate Simeon Rice, who stripped the ball away and recovered it himself.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Championship: at Philadelphia Eagles
On the Eagles' first drive of the third quarter, McNabb lost another fumble due to a tackle from defensive back Ronde Barber, and Bucs lineman Ellis Wyms recovered it. Later on, with 1:02 left in the third period, Gramatica's 27-yard field goal increased the Tampa Bay lead to 20–10. In the fourth quarter, the Eagles managed to drive 73 yards to Tampa Bay's 10-yard line, but Barber intercepted McNabb's pass with 3:12 left in the game and returned it 92 yards for a touchdown, clinching a trip to the Super Bowl for the first time in franchise history.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Championship: at Philadelphia Eagles
This was the last Eagles game ever played at Veterans Stadium which was demolished shortly thereafter.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Postseason, Game summaries, Super Bowl XXXVII: vs. Oakland Raiders
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers won their first Super Bowl, routing the Oakland Raiders 48–21. The Buccaneers defense intercepted Rich Gannon a Super Bowl record five times, and returned three of the interceptions for touchdowns. Safety Dexter Jackson was named the game's MVP.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Postseason, Game summaries, Super Bowl XXXVII: vs. Oakland Raiders
As many sports fans and writers predicted, Gruden's prior knowledge of the Raiders was a major factor in the Buccaneers’ win in Super Bowl XXXVII. The most damaging piece of evidence is NFL Films footage of Tampa Bay defensive back John Lynch telling his teammates during the game that almost all of the plays ran by Oakland's offense were plays that Gruden (who that week even played the part of "Rich Gannon" by playing QB with the scout-team offense) specifically told them to look out for.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Postseason, Game summaries, Super Bowl XXXVII: vs. Oakland Raiders
Better still for the Buccaneers was that Oakland hadn't changed their audible-calling signals that Gruden himself had installed, thus tipping off plays repeatedly. As a result, Tampa Bay dominated Oakland, outgaining them in total yards (365 to 269), rushing yards (150 to 19), first downs (24 to 11), offensive plays (76 to 60), and forced turnovers (5 to 1).


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Postseason, Game summaries, Super Bowl XXXVII: vs. Oakland Raiders
The Raiders had a great chance to score a touchdown early in the game after cornerback Charles Woodson intercepted Buccaneers quarterback Brad Johnson's pass on the third play of the game and returned it 12 yards to the Tampa Bay 36-yard line. But 6 plays later, Tampa Bay defensive end Simeon Rice sacked Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon on third down, forcing Oakland to settle for kicker Sebastian Janikowski's 40-yard field goal to give them a 3–0 lead.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Postseason, Game summaries, Super Bowl XXXVII: vs. Oakland Raiders
Buccaneers kick returner Aaron Stecker returned the ensuing kickoff 27 yards to the 29-yard line, then appeared to fumble the ball. Although the officials initially ruled that the ball was recovered by Oakland's Eric Johnson, the play was reviewed by instant replay and the fumble was overturned, and thus Tampa Bay retained possession.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Postseason, Game summaries, Super Bowl XXXVII: vs. Oakland Raiders
On the first play of the drive, Brad Johnson completed an 11-yard pass to receiver Joe Jurevicius. Johnson's next 2 passes were incomplete, but he then completed a 23-yard pass to Jurevicius on third down to advance the ball to the Oakland 37-yard line. Running back Michael Pittman then rushed for a 23-yard gain to the 13-yard line. However, on the next three plays, the Raiders defense limited the Buccaneers to a pair of incompletions and a 1-yard run. Kicker Martin Gramatica then made a 31-yard field goal to tie the game, 3–3.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Postseason, Game summaries, Super Bowl XXXVII: vs. Oakland Raiders
Later in the period, a 17-yard punt return by Raiders defensive back Darrien Gordon gave Oakland the ball at their own 49-yard line. Gannon then threw an 8-yard pass to running back Charlie Garner to reach the Tampa Bay 43-yard line. But on third down, Buccaneers safety Dexter Jackson intercepted Gannon's pass at the 40-yard line and returned it 9-yards to near midfield. Then nine plays after the turnover, Gramatica kicked his second field goal from 43 yards to give Tampa Bay a 6–3 lead.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Postseason, Game summaries, Super Bowl XXXVII: vs. Oakland Raiders
Jackson intercepted another pass on the Raiders' next drive and returned it 25 yards to Oakland's 45-yard line, making Jackson the first player ever to record 2 interceptions in the first half of the Super Bowl. However, the Buccaneers were unable to take advantage of the turnover and were forced to punt. Fortunately for Tampa Bay, they got a big assist from their punter Tom Tupa, who managed to pin Oakland all the way back at their own 11-yard line with his punt.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Postseason, Game summaries, Super Bowl XXXVII: vs. Oakland Raiders
The Raiders could not move the ball either, losing 1 yard on 3 plays with their ensuing drive. Tampa Bay punt returner Karl Williams then returned Shane Lechler's punt 25 yards, giving the Buccaneers great field position at Oakland's 27-yard line. Aided with Pittman's gains of 6 and 19 yards, the Buccaneers scored their first touchdown on a 2-yard run from fullback Mike Alstott, increasing their lead 13–3. Then with 3:45 left in the half, Tampa Bay drove 77 yards, assisted by a pair of catches by Alstott for 28 total yards. Johnson finished the drive with a 5-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Keenan McCardell to give the Buccaneers a 20–3 halftime lead.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Postseason, Game summaries, Super Bowl XXXVII: vs. Oakland Raiders
Tampa Bay continued to dominate the game for most of the third quarter. The Buccaneers forced the Raiders to punt on the opening drive of the second half. Next, Tampa Bay marched 89 yards on a 14-plays drive that took 7:52 off the clock, and ended with Johnson's 8-yard touchdown pass to McCardell to increase their lead to 27–3. Then on the second play of Oakland's ensuing drive, Buccaneers defensive back Dwight Smith intercepted Gannon's pass and returned it 44 yards for a touchdown, making the score 34–3.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Postseason, Game summaries, Super Bowl XXXVII: vs. Oakland Raiders
After giving up 34 unanswered points, Oakland finally managed to drive 82 yards down the field and score on a 39-yard touchdown pass from Gannon to receiver Jerry Porter. Although he was initially ruled as being out of bounds when he caught the ball, it was determined that Porter had one foot in the end zone and used it to drag the other foot out. The two-point conversion failed, so the Raiders were still down 34–9.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Postseason, Game summaries, Super Bowl XXXVII: vs. Oakland Raiders
The Raiders' touchdown seemed to fire up their defense, who forced the Buccaneers to a fourth down on their ensuing possession. Oakland lineman Tim Johnson then blocked Tupa's punt, and Raiders defender Eric Johnson returned the ball 13 yards for a touchdown. Another two-point conversion for Oakland failed, but Tampa Bay's lead was cut to 34–15.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Postseason, Game summaries, Super Bowl XXXVII: vs. Oakland Raiders
Tampa Bay responded by moving the ball to the Oakland 9-yard line on their ensuing drive, featuring a 24-yard run by Pittman, but they came up empty after Tupa fumbled the snap on a field goal attempt. A few plays later, Gannon threw a 48-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jerry Rice with 6:06 left in the game, cutting the Raiders deficit to 34–21. Rice became the first player to catch a touchdown pass in 4 different Super Bowls, and third overall to have TDs in 4 Super Bowls (Thurman Thomas and John Elway). The two-point conversion failed when Jerry Porter caught the ball and was forced out of bounds; while the official did not judge it to be a force-out, (judgement call) hence, that part of the play was non reviewable.


2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season, Postseason, Game summaries, Super Bowl XXXVII: vs. Oakland Raiders
In an attempt to prevent a Raiders comeback, the Buccaneers managed to run the clock down to 2:44 on their ensuing drive before being forced to punt. Then on third and 18 from the Oakland 29-yard line, Tampa Bay linebacker Derrick Brooks intercepted a pass from Gannon and returned it 44 yards for a touchdown, giving the Buccaneers a 41–21 lead with only 1:18 left putting the game out of reach. And a few plays later as the Raiders were now playing for pride, Smith intercepted a tipped pass and returned it 50 yards for a touchdown (the 200th TD in Super Bowl history). this would be the team’s last playoff (and Super Bowl) win until the 2020 season.


2002 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season
The 2002 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season was their fifth since the franchise was created. This season, they finished last in the AL East division, and managed to finish the season with a record of 55-106. Their manager was Hal McRae who entered his 1st full season and last season with the Devil Rays.


2002 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season, Regular season, Citrus series
The annual interleague games between the Florida Marlins and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays were played in June and July. They are known as the Citrus Series. The Devil Rays won the series 4-2.


2002 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


2002 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


2002 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


2002 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


2002 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


2002 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season, ESPN25 Worst Team of All-Time
In 2004, ESPN was celebrating 25 years of the network since its founding in 1979. The network decided to honor the first 25 years from the best to the worst and everything else in between. The Rays were ranked 16th in the actual ESPN Worst Team Result of the first 25 years conducted by ESPN and its users. The users put them higher at 13th than the original airing as the worst team by only 3 spots.


2002 Tampa Cessna 172 crash
On January 5, 2002, Charles J. Bishop, a high-school student of East Lake High School in Tarpon Springs, Florida, United States, stole a Cessna 172 light aircraft and crashed it into the side of the Bank of America Tower in downtown Tampa, Florida. The impact killed the teenager and damaged an office room, but there were no other injuries.


2002 Tampa Cessna 172 crash
Bishop had been inspired by the September 11 attacks; he had left a suicide note crediting Osama bin Laden for the attacks and praising it as a justified response to actions against the Palestinians and Iraqis and said he (Bishop) was acting on behalf of Al Qaeda, from whom he had turned down help. As officials could find no other evidence of any connections, terrorism as a motive was ruled out, and they suggested that the crash was an apparent suicide. Bishop's mother filed, then dropped, a lawsuit claiming that psychological side effects from isotretinoin, an acne medicine Bishop took, which can include depression and rarely suicidal actions, caused the incident.


2002 Tampa Cessna 172 crash, Flight
At 5:00 p.m. EST, 15-year-old Charlie J. Bishop's flight instructor left him at the plane to perform basic preflight inspection. Once he was left alone inside the plane, he started the engine and took off without permission. As soon as the plane took off, the air traffic controllers alerted the United States Coast Guard and the MacDill Air Force Base. Despite repeated warnings from a helicopter dispatched by the Coast Guard, the small plane continued on in flight until it crashed into the Bank of America tower. The plane crashed between the 28th and 29th floors of the 42-story building.


2002 Tampa Cessna 172 crash, Pilot
Bishop was a 15-year-old high-school student from Tarpon Springs, Florida. At the time of the incident, he was a student pilot and only authorized to fly with a Certified Flight Instructor.


2002 Tampa Cessna 172 crash, Investigation and aftermath
An investigation followed the incident. Officials ruled out terrorism although eyewitnesses said that the plane made no apparent attempt to avoid hitting the building. Officials finally suggested that the crash was an apparent suicide. In addition, a note found in the wreckage stated that he voiced support for Osama bin Laden. However, there is no evidence that the teen had any connection with any terror group. A suicide note from Bishop was found stating:


2002 Tampa Cessna 172 crash, Investigation and aftermath
"I have prepared this statement in regards to the acts I am about to commit. First of all, Osama bin Laden is absolutely justified in the terror he has caused on 9-11. He has brought a mighty nation to its knees! God blesses him and the others who helped make September 11th happen. The U.S. will have to face the consequences for its horrific actions against the Palestinian people and Iraqis by its allegiance with the monstrous Israelis—who want nothing short of world domination! You will pay—God help you—and I will make you pay! There will be more coming! Al Qaeda and other organizations have met with me several times to discuss the option of me joining. I didn't. This is an operation done by me only. I had no other help, although, I am acting on their behalf."


2002 Tampa Cessna 172 crash, Investigation and aftermath
Later authorities confiscated a computer from Bishop's parents' house to try to determine a motive for the incident. Moments after the incident, President George W. Bush was briefly informed about the incident and two unrelated crashes that same day.


2002 Tampa Cessna 172 crash, Investigation and aftermath
In April 2002, transcripts obtained from the Federal Aviation Administration revealed new details about the incident, which included how close the small plane came to a Southwest Airlines flight.


2002 Tampa Cessna 172 crash, Investigation and aftermath
Bishop's mother filed a $70 million (2002 USD) lawsuit against Roche Laboratories, who make an acne medicine called Accutane. According to the lawsuit claim, the medicine had side effects such as depression and suicidal actions, which the claim stated as the cause of the incident. The suit was dropped on June 26, 2007, by Bishop's mother, who stated she was physically and emotionally unable to continue the action.


2002 Tampa Cessna 172 crash, Investigation and aftermath
After the incident took place, numerous security measures were taken. The FAA released a security notice on January 6, the day after the incident. The notice included security of the aircraft and regulations pertaining to underaged flight students. In addition, the EAA and other smaller aircraft organizations proposed more security of flight schools and small aircraft.


2002 Tampa Cessna 172 crash, Investigation and aftermath
While authorities stated that the crash was due to an "abuse of trust" rather than a security breach, others argue for the need of increased security due to the simplicity of such actions.


2002 Tamworth Borough Council election
Elections to Tamworth Borough Council were held on 2 May 2002. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000. The Labour Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2002 Tandridge District Council election
The 2002 Tandridge District Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of Tandridge District Council in Surrey, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2002 Tangerine Bowl
The 2002 Tangerine Bowl was the 13th edition of the college football bowl game formerly known as Blockbuster / Carquest / MicronPC Bowl. This was the second under the "Tangerine Bowl" moniker, a reference to the  original name of the Citrus Bowl, known as the Tangerine Bowl from 1947 to 1982. It was played on December 23, 2002, and featured the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Clemson Tigers.


2002 Tangerine Bowl, Background
The Red Raiders finished 2nd in the Southern Division to Oklahoma and Texas, having lost to the former in Oklahoma and having beaten the latter at home. They were 2-5 against ranked opponents, having beaten #23 Texas A&M and #4 Texas, but losing to #12 Ohio State, #16 NC State, #11 Iowa State, #21 Colorado and #3 Oklahoma. This was the eighth bowl game for the Red Raiders in nine years. Clemson began their season with a non-conference loss to #8 Georgia 31-28.


2002 Tangerine Bowl, Background
This was the first of four losses to ranked opponents, while the team finished with one more win in the regular season than the previous year. They finished fourth in the Atlantic Coast Conference behind Florida State, Virginia & Maryland, and NC State, all of whom beat Clemson. This was the ninth bowl game for the Tigers in 10 years.


2002 Tangerine Bowl, Game summary
Texas Tech scored first on a 29-yard field goal from Robert Treece, giving Tech a 3–0 lead. Kliff Kingsbury threw a 46-yard touchdown pass to Nehemiah Glover making it 10–0. He threw another 19-yard touchdown pass to Mickey Peters.


2002 Tangerine Bowl, Game summary
In the second quarter, Taurean Henderson scored from 10 yards out, and Tech took a 24–0 lead. After Clemson forced a safety, Wes Welker scored on a 59-yard punt return to make it 31–2, Texas Tech. Robert Treece's 34-yard field goal before halftime made it 34–2 Texas Tech.


2002 Tangerine Bowl, Game summary
In the third quarter, Charlie Whitehurst threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Ben Hall to make it 34–9. B.J. Symons threw a 2-yard touchdown pass to Carlos Francis to make it 41–9, Texas Tech.


2002 Tangerine Bowl, Game summary
In the fourth quarter, Clemson's Chad Jasmine scored on a 2-yard touchdown run making it 41–15. Kliff Kingsbury threw a 9-yard touchdown pass to Wes Welker making it 48–15. A 26-yard touchdown pass from B.J. Symons to Taurean Henderson ended up being the final score of the game.


2002 Tangerine Bowl, Game summary
Kliff Kingsbury threw 32-of-43 for 375 yards and three touchdowns. This was Texas Tech's first bowl win since 1995.


2002 Tangerine Bowl, Aftermath
Texas Tech reached six more bowl games in the decade, with victories in four of them, including consecutive bowl wins in separate years, a first for the program. As for Clemson, they also reached six more bowl games in the decade, winning half of them.


2002 Tashkent Open
The 2002 Tashkent Open was a women's tennis tournament played on hard courts at the Tashkent Tennis Center in Tashkent, Uzbekistan that was part of the Tier IV category of the 2002 WTA Tour. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and was held from 10 June through 16 June 2002. First-seeded Marie-Gayanay Mikaelian won the singles title and earned $22,000 first-prize money.


2002 Tashkent Open, Finals, Doubles
Tatiana Perebiynis /  Tatiana Poutchek defeated  Mia Buric /  Galina Fokina, 7–5, 6–2


2002 Tashkent Open – Doubles
Petra Mandula and Patricia Wartusch were the defending champions from 2001, but they chose not to compete in 2002.


2002 Tashkent Open – Doubles
Tatiana Perebiynis and Tatiana Poutchek defended their title, by defeating Mia Buric and Galina Fokina 7–5, and 6–2 in the final.


2002 Tashkent Open – Singles
Bianka Lamade was the defending champion from 2001, but she chose not to compete in 2002.


2002 Tashkent Open – Singles
Marie-Gaïané Mikaelian won the title in two sets over Tatiana Poutchek.


2002 Tasmanian state election
A general election for the Tasmanian House of Assembly was held on Saturday 20 July 2002. The Labor government led by Premier Jim Bacon was seeking a second term against the Liberal Party Opposition headed by Opposition Leader Bob Cheek. The election was marked by a strong swing to both the Labor Party and the Tasmanian Greens at the expense of the Liberals, with Cheek losing his own seat.


2002 Tasmanian state election
Bacon and the Labor Party campaigned on a platform of revitalising the state after the 1990s-era economic reforms of successive Liberal governments, while maintaining law and order and a strong economy, and promoting tourism in particular. In response, Cheek and the Liberals claimed that the government had abandoned small business and promised a wide range of spending initiatives - something that was seized upon by Bacon as a means of attacking the Liberals' economic credentials. The Tasmanian Greens, under leader Peg Putt, campaigned as an alternative to both major parties, concentrating on environmental issues, which are often an area of bipartisan agreement among the Tasmanian major parties.


2002 Tasmanian state election
The results of the election were somewhat unexpected. The government retained its 14 seats in the 25-member parliament and recorded a swing in their favour in all five electorates. The Liberal Party had held ten seats before the election, but lost three to the Greens, who subsequently went from one to four seats. The Greens gained 18.1% of the statewide vote, their highest on record. In the Hobart-based seat of Denison, the Greens polled 24.5%, outpolling the main Opposition Liberal Party.


2002 Tasmanian state election
The election had major impacts on both the Liberals and Tasmanian Greens, while leaving Labor largely unchanged. The Liberals suffered a swing of over 10 percent and lost three seats, including that of their leader, Bob Cheek–the first major-party leader in Tasmania to lose his own seat since 1903. Rene Hidding was elected as his successor.


2002 Tasmanian state election
In contrast to the misfortune of the Liberal Party, the election saw the unexpected revival of the Greens. The reduction of the size of the Assembly in 1998, from 35 to 25, had increased the quota necessary to win a seat to 16.7%. Both major parties portrayed this as a way to cut the costs of government, but the Greens saw it as an attempt to eradicate them. At the 1998 election, all of their MPs except one, Peg Putt, were defeated. However, they managed to markedly increase their vote in the 2002 poll, and picked up three new MPs, Kim Booth, Nick McKim and Tim Morris.


2002 Tasmanian state election, Results
Tasmanian state election, 20 July 2002House of Assembly << 1998–2006 >>


2002 Tata Open
The 2002 Tata Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the SDAT Tennis Stadium in Chennai, India and was part of the International Series of the 2002 ATP Tour. The tournament ran from 31 December 2001 until 6 January 2002. Guillermo Cañas won the singles title.


2002 Tata Open, Finals, Doubles
Mahesh Bhupathi /  Leander Paes defeated  Tomáš Cibulec /  Ota Fukárek 5–7, 6–2, 7–5


2002 Tata Open – Doubles
Byron Black and Wayne Black were the defending champions but only Byron competed that year with Fabrice Santoro.


2002 Tata Open – Doubles
Black and Santoro lost in the semifinals to Tomáš Cibulec and Ota Fukárek.


2002 Tata Open – Doubles
Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes won in the final 5–7, 6–2, 7–5 against Cibulec and Fukárek.


2002 Tata Open – Singles
Michal Tabara was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Dennis van Scheppingen.


2002 Tata Open – Singles
Guillermo Cañas won in the final 6–4, 7–6(7–2) against Paradorn Srichaphan.


2002 Taça de Portugal Final
The 2002 Taça de Portugal Final was the final match of the 2001–02 Taça de Portugal, the 62nd season of the Taça de Portugal, the premier Portuguese football cup competition organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The match was played on 12 May 2002 at the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, and opposed third division side Leixões and Sporting CP. Sporting CP defeated Leixões 1–0 to claim their thirteenth Taça de Portugal.


2002 Taça de Portugal Final
As Sporting CP claimed both league and cup double in the same season, cup runners-up Leixões faced their cup final opponents in the 2002 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira at the Estádio do Bonfim in Setúbal.


2002 Tbilisi earthquake
The 2002 Tbilisi earthquake occurred on April 25 in the Caucasus country of Georgia. The United States' National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) placed the magnitude at 4.3 Ms  and 4.8 mb . This moderate magnitude event resulted in a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong) to VIII (Damaging). An independent investigation estimated the total losses at $160 million (US) while the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters estimated the total losses at 350 million. Between five and seven were killed, 52–70 were injured, and more than 1,000 were left homeless.


2002 Tbilisi earthquake, Tectonic setting
Tbilisi lies near the northern boundary of the complex zone of deformation associated with the continuing collision between the Arabian Plate and the Eurasian Plate. To the north, the mountains of the Greater Caucasus are a result of active thrust tectonics, linking eastwards to the Apsheron sill. To the south, the Lesser Caucasus mountains are also a result of active thrust tectonics. The whole Caucasus region is affected by earthquakes, with the largest known being associated with the active front of the Greater Caucasus thrust belt, such as the 1991 Racha earthquake. Tbilisi itself has relatively low seismicity, although there are historical records of damaging earthquakes, such as the event in 1896, which had an estimated intensity of VII (MSK), the strongest known earthquake to have affected Tbilisi during historical times.


2002 Tbilisi earthquake, Earthquake
The earthquake was preceded by a series of foreshocks, of which the largest was M 3.5 on April 11. The mainshock had an estimated magnitude of 4.7 mb (ISC), 4.8 mb  (ANSS), 4.5 Ms,  with an estimate hypocentral depth of 13.6 km (ISC), 10.0 km (ANSS), 5.0 km and 3.0 km. The mainshock produced higher intensity shaking than would normally be expected for an earthquake of that magnitude. The frequency was also unusually high (maximum 5 Hz) and the duration was short. The epicenter was located centrally within the city of Tblisi, something that had not been considered in earlier studies of potential seismic source zones.


2002 Tbilisi earthquake, Damage
The unusually high frequency of the shaking, combined with the short duration, meant that there was little damage to larger buildings or those built using reinforced concrete. The most affected buildings were, in contrast, low-rise brick or stone built, which were concentrated in the older part of the city. Buildings affected during the mainshock were further damaged by some of the aftershocks. A total of 18,000 households were badly affected, leaving 69,000 people homeless. There was also significant damage to some schools and hospitals.


2002 Tbilisi earthquake, Damage
Between five and seven people died as a result of the earthquake and a further 52–70 were injured.


2002 Team Ice Racing World Championship
The 2002 Team Ice Racing World Championship was the 24th edition of the Team World Championship. The final was held on ?, 2002, in Krasnogorsk, in Russia. Sweden won their third title and a European team finished in the bronze medal position.


2002 Tecate/Telmex Monterrey Grand Prix
The 2002 Tecate/Telmex Monterrey Grand Prix was the first round of the 2002 CART FedEx Champ Car World Series season, held on March 10, 2002 at Parque Fundidora in Monterrey, Mexico.


2002 Tecate/Telmex Monterrey Grand Prix, Qualifying results
* Nakano ran his backup car in the qualification 2 session (but was unable to complete a lap), thus forfeiting the qualifying time he set in his primary car on Friday.


2002 Teen Choice Awards
The 2002 Teen Choice Awards ceremony was held on August 19, 2002, at the Universal Amphitheatre, Universal City, California. The awards celebrate the year's achievements in music, film, television, sports, fashion, comedy, video games, and the Internet, and were voted on by viewers living in the US, aged 13 and over through various social media sites. The event had no designated host but Britney Spears and Verne Troyer introduced the show with Nelly, Jennifer Love Hewitt and BBMak as performers. Reese Witherspoon received the Extraordinary Achievement Award.


2002 Tel Aviv outdoor mall bombing
The 2002 Tel Aviv outdoor mall bombing was a terrorist attack which occurred on 25 January 2002 in which a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in Tel Aviv, Israel, injuring at least 24 civilians.


2002 Tel Aviv outdoor mall bombing
After the attack, the Islamist Palestinian militant organization Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.


2002 Tel Aviv outdoor mall bombing, Background
The week before the attack, IDF forces assassinated four senior members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades during a raid of their hideout in Nablus.


2002 Tel Aviv outdoor mall bombing, Background
On 24 January 2002, an Israeli helicopter assassinated Bakr Hamdan in the Gaza Strip, the leader of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, which Israeli security official said was responsible for "dozens of terrorist attacks carried out against Israeli civilians and soldiers in the Gaza Strip."


2002 Tel Aviv outdoor mall bombing, The attack
On 25 January 2002, at 11:15 A.M., a Palestinian suicide bomber carrying hidden explosives attached to his body which were filled with shrapnel, blew himself up in a crowded pedestrian mall adjacent to the old abandoned bus station in Tel Aviv.


2002 Tel Aviv outdoor mall bombing, The attack
At least 24 people were injured in the attack, three of them critically wounded, four were moderately wounded and the rest were lightly wounded.


2002 Tel Aviv outdoor mall bombing, Perpetrators
Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the attack in a statement given to the Lebanese TV station Al-Manar. In this statement, they said that the suicide bomber was 17-year-old Safwat Abdurrahman Khalil, a resident of the Palestinian town Beit Wazan near Nablus.


2002 Tel Aviv outdoor mall bombing, Perpetrators
Immediately after the attack, Israeli police forces at the site of the attack found an abandoned AK-47 rifle and caught the suicide bomber's partner, who was allegedly supposed to use the rifle in order to increase the number of casualties in the attack. The suicide bomber's partner, who was from Nablus, was reportedly carrying a Koran in which the date and place of the attack were written.


2002 Tel Aviv outdoor mall bombing, Response
In response to the bombing, at nightfall an Israeli F-16 attacked the Palestinian security headquarters in Gaza located near Yasser Arafat's compound. In addition, the F-16 fired two missiles at national security and intelligence buildings in Tulkarm. According to Palestinian medical officials, two Palestinian were injured in the Tulkarm attack.


2002 Tel Aviv outdoor mall bombing, Response
In March 2002, the Israeli Arab Nasser Fahemi, a resident of Tira at the time, was tried at the HaShalom court in Kfar Saba for enabling the perpetrators of the 2002 Tel Aviv outdoor mall bombing to stay at his home until a vehicle reached his house and transported them to the site of the attack, and for providing them advice on how not to get caught. Fahemi admitted the charges and was sentenced to three years in prison and one year probation.


2002 Temple Owls football team
The 2002 Temple Owls football team represented Temple University in the college 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Owls competed as a member of the Big East Conference, and the team was coached by Bobby Wallace.


2002 Tennessee Titans season
The 2002 season was the Tennessee Titans' 33rd in the National Football League and 43rd overall. The team improved upon their previous season's output of 7–9, managing 11 victories. The Titans qualified for the playoffs, but were unable to reach the Super Bowl, losing to the Oakland Raiders in the AFC Championship. The Titans would not return to the AFC Championship again until 2019.


2002 Tennessee Titans season, Playoffs, AFC Divisional Playoff vs Pittsburgh Steelers
This was the Titans franchise's first playoff win over the Steelers in four tries, following three losses as the Oilers in 1978, 1979 and 1989, the latter of which was also in overtime.


2002 Tennessee Titans season, Playoffs, AFC Championship Game
This was the Titans' last appearance at the AFC championship game until 2019.


2002 Tennessee Volunteers football team
The 2002 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was coached by Phillip Fulmer. The Vols played their home games in Neyland Stadium and competed in the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The Vols finished the season 8–5, 5–3 in SEC play and lost the Peach Bowl, 30–3, to Maryland.


2002 Tennessee Volunteers football team, 2003 NFL Draft
The 2003 NFL Draft was held on April 26–27, 2003 at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The following UT players were selected:


2002 Tennessee gubernatorial election
The 2002 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 2002. The incumbent, Don Sundquist, was barred from serving a third term. To succeed him, former Nashville Mayor Phil Bredesen, the Democratic nominee, who had run against Sundquist in 1994, narrowly defeated United States Congressman Van Hilleary, the Republican nominee, in the general election.


2002 Tennis Masters Cup
The 2002 Tennis Masters Cup was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 33rd edition of the year-end singles championships and was part of the 2002 ATP Tour. It took place at the Shanghai New International Expo Center in Shanghai, China from 12 November through 18 November 2002. No doubles competition was held. First-seeded Lleyton Hewitt won the title.


2002 Tennis Masters Cup, Finals, Singles
Lleyton Hewitt defeated  Juan Carlos Ferrero 7–5, 7–5, 2–6, 2–6, 6–4


2002 Tennis Masters Cup – Singles
Lleyton Hewitt was the defending champion and won in the final 7–5, 7–5, 2–6, 2–6, 6–4 against Juan Carlos Ferrero.


2002 Tennis Masters Cup – Singles, Draw, Red Group
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


2002 Tennis Masters Cup – Singles, Draw, Gold Group
Standings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.


2002 Tennis Masters Series
The table below shows the 2002 Tennis Masters Series schedule.


2002 Tennis Masters Series
The ATP Masters Series are part of the elite tour for professional men's tennis organised by the Association of Tennis Professionals.


2002 Tercera División play-offs
The 2002 Tercera División play-offs to Segunda División B from Tercera División (Promotion play-offs) were the final playoffs for the promotion from 2001–02 Tercera División to 2002–03 Segunda División B. The first four teams of each group (excluding reserve teams) took part in the play-off.


2002 Texas A&M Aggies football team
The 2002 Texas A&M Aggies football team completed the season with a 6–6 record. The Aggies had a regular season Big 12 record of 3–5. Head coach R. C. Slocum was fired at the end of the season and replaced by Dennis Franchione. Despite finishing the season bowl eligible, the Aggies did not participate in a bowl game.


2002 Texas Longhorns baseball team
The 2002 Texas Longhorns baseball team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 2002 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Longhorns played their home games at UFCU Disch-Falk Field. The team was coached by Augie Garrido in his 6th season at Texas.


2002 Texas Longhorns baseball team
The Longhorns won the College World Series with a 12–6 victory over South Carolina.


2002 Texas Longhorns baseball team, Longhorns in the 2002 MLB Draft
The following members of the Texas Longhorns baseball program were drafted in the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft.


2002 Texas Longhorns baseball team, Rankings
^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. † NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.


2002 Texas Longhorns football team
The 2002 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was coached by head football coach Mack Brown and led on the field by senior quarterback Chris Simms.