2003 Dallas Cowboys season, Season summary, Week 11 at New England Patriots
Parcells traveled to Foxboro for the first time since the 1999 season and faced his former assistant Bill Belichick on Sunday Night. The Patriots had won five straight and made it six as they sacked Quincy Carter once and intercepted three passes. Former Patriot Terry Glenn was held to one catch as the Patriots ground out a 12-0 win.


2003 Dallas Cowboys season, Season summary, Week 12 vs. Carolina Panthers
The Cowboys hosted the surging Panthers and the game lead tied or changed six times. Joey Galloway caught a touchdown, one of two from Quincy Carter, while Aveion Cason's touchdown put Dallas up 24-17. John Kasay's field goal at 3:51 to go made it 24-20 late in the fourth, but the Cowboys killed the remaining clock on four Carter completions for 21 yards and a four-yard run aided by a Deon Grant personal foul penalty.


2003 Dallas Cowboys season, Season summary, Thanksgiving Day vs. Miami Dolphins
The 8-3 Cowboys hosted the 7-4 Dolphins for the first time since 1999. The two teams had clashed in memorable contests in 1993 and 1996 and both were in the thick of their playoff races. The second quarter became a frantic affair following a first quarter score by Jay Fiedler. The Dolphins erupted to outscore Dallas 23-14 in the second, and from there the game merely awaited its obsequies on two more Miami touchdowns (one a strip-sack of Quincy Carter run back by Jason Taylor) and a Carter score to Antonio Bryant. The Dolphins finished up 40-21 winners and both teams faced key division matchups at 8-4.


2003 Dallas Cowboys season, Season summary, Week 14 at Philadelphia Eagles
The Eagles all but locked up the NFC East by crushing the Cowboys 36-10. They intercepted Quincy Carter twice and forced a fumble through the endzone for a safety. Donovan McNabb had three touchdown throws despite a failed fourth-down attempt in the fourth quarter, and Correll Buckhalter (144 combined yards from scrimmage) finished the game on a 64-yard touchdown run.


2003 Dallas Cowboys season, Season summary, Week 15 at Washington Redskins
On a dismal day for quarterbacking (Quincy Carter, Brian Barker, and Tim Hasselbeck combined for just 16 of 50 passes for 164 yards and a Carter touchdown for an average passer rating of just 75) Troy Hambrick exploded to 189 rushing yards as Dallas shut out the Skins 27-0.


2003 Dallas Cowboys season, Season summary, Week 16 vs. New York Giants
Carter got back in groove with 240 yards and a touchdown as four Billy Cundiff field goals (for an aggregate of eleven vs. the Giants in the season) aided a 19-3 Dallas win over the Giants. Dallas now stood in a three-way race for the NFC Wildcards with the Seahawks and Minnesota.


2003 Dallas Cowboys season, Season summary, Week 17 at New Orleans Saints
The Saints were still smarting from a shocking series of laterals ending in a touchdown and missed PAT against Jacksonville the week before. They responded by intercepting Quincy Carter three times and shutting out the Cowboys the remaining two quarters for the 13-7 Saints win. The Cowboys made the playoffs nonetheless on Arizona's last-second win over the Vikings; it was Dallas' first playoff appearance since 1999.


2003 Dallas Cowboys season, Season summary, Wildcard Playoff at Carolina Panthers
For the first time since 1996 the Cowboys faced the Carolina Panthers in the postseason. It was also the first playoff game for Parcells since the 1998 AFC Championship Game. The end result, though, was an ugly 29-10 curtain on the season as the Panthers forced a fumble, picked off Quincy Carter once, sacked him three times, and limited the Cowboys to 204 yards of offense.


2003 Dallas Cowboys season, Season summary, Wildcard Playoff at Carolina Panthers
Carter accounted for roughly a third of Dallas' rushing production with 25 yards on the ground (nine of them on a rushing touchdown, the only touchdown for Dallas in the game) but finished with a passer rating that failed to reach 57, compared to the 104 put up by Panthers quarterback Jake Delhomme.


2003 Dallas mayoral election
The Dallas mayoral election of 2003 took place on May 3, 2003, to elect the mayor of Dallas, Texas. The race was officially nonpartisan. It saw the reelection of Laura Miller, who won the election by taking a majority in the initial round of voting, thereby negating the need for a runoff to be held.


2003 Danish Figure Skating Championships
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2003 Danish Figure Skating Championships
The 2003 Danish Figure Skating Championships (Danish: Danmarks Mesterskaberne 2003) was held in Herning from 10 to 13 January 2003. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles and ladies' singles. Not all disciplines were held on all levels due to a lack of participants.


2003 Dartford Borough Council election
Elections to Dartford Borough Council were held on 1 May 2003. The whole council was up for election on new boundaries, which reduced the total number of seats from 47 to 44. The election in Longfield, New Barn and Southfleet ward was postponed following the death of Bob Dunn, one of the Conservative candidates. The delayed election returned three Conservative councillors, increasing their number to 21.


2003 Dartford Borough Council election
Labour lost their majority on the council, putting it into no overall control. The Conservatives and Swanscombe & Greenhithe Residents Association subsequently formed a coalition to control the council.


2003 Dartmouth Big Green football team
The 2003 Dartmouth Big Green football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College during the 2003 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Dartmouth tied for second in the Ivy League.


2003 Dartmouth Big Green football team
In their 12th season under head coach John Lyons, the Big Green compiled a 5–5 record and were outscored 261 to 211. Casey Cramer and Clayton Smith were the team captains.


2003 Dartmouth Big Green football team
The Big Green's 4–3 conference record placed them in a four-way tie for second in the Ivy League standings. Despite its winning conference record, Dartmouth was outscored 168 to 161 by Ivy opponents.


2003 Dartmouth Big Green football team
Dartmouth played its home games at Memorial Field on the college campus in Hanover, New Hampshire.


2003 Daventry District Council election
Elections to Daventry District Council were held on 1 May 2003. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council. Overall turnout was 34%.


2003 Davidoff Swiss Indoors
The 2003 Davidoff Swiss Indoors was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel in Switzerland and was part of the International Series of the 2003 ATP Tour. The tournament ran from 20 October through 26 October 2003. Unseeded Guillermo Coria won the singles title.


2003 Davidoff Swiss Indoors, Finals, Doubles
Mark Knowles /  Daniel Nestor defeated  Lucas Arnold /  Mariano Hood 6–4, 6–2


2003 Davidoff Swiss Indoors – Doubles
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan were the defending champions but lost in the first round to James Blake and Martin Verkerk.


2003 Davidoff Swiss Indoors – Doubles
Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor won in the final 6–4, 6–2 against Lucas Arnold and Mariano Hood.


2003 Davidoff Swiss Indoors – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


2003 Davidoff Swiss Indoors – Singles
David Nalbandian was the defending champion but lost the final on a walkover against Guillermo Coria.


2003 Davidoff Swiss Indoors – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


2003 Davis Cup
The 2003 Davis Cup was the 92nd edition of the most important tournament between nations in men's tennis. A total of 135 nations participated in the tournament. In the final, Australia defeated Spain at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia, on 28–30 November, giving Australia their 28th title.


2003 Davis Cup, World Group, Draw
First round losers compete in Play-off ties with Zonal Group I Qualifiers.


2003 Davis Cup Americas Zone
The Americas Zone was one of three Zones of Davis Cup competition in 2003.


2003 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III
The Group III tournament was held in the Week commencing March 31, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on outdoor hard courts.


2003 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III, Format
The eight teams were split into two groups and played in a round-robin format. The top two teams of each group advanced to the promotion pool, from which the two top teams were promoted to the Americas Zone Group II in 2004. The bottom two teams of each group were placed in the relegation pool, from which the two bottom teams were demoted to the Americas Zone Group IV in 2004.


2003 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III, Promotion pool
The top two teams from each of Pools A and B advanced to the Promotion pool. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.


2003 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III, Promotion pool, Results of Individual Ties
Jamaica and Puerto Rico promoted to Group II for 2004.


2003 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group III, Relegation pool
The bottom two teams from Pools A and B were placed in the relegation group. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.


2003 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group IV
The Group IV tournament was held in the Week commencing March 31, in Ciudad Cariari, Costa Rica, on outdoor hard courts.


2003 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group IV, Round robin, Results of Individual Ties
Panama and the US Virgin Islands promoted to Group III for 2004.


2003 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone
The Asia/Oceania Zone was one of three Zones of Davis Cup competition in 2003.


2003 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III
The Group III tournament was held July 23-27, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on outdoor hard courts.


2003 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III, Format
The eight teams were split into two groups and played in a round-robin format. The top two teams of each group advanced to the promotion pool, from which the two top teams were promoted to the Asia/Oceania Zone Group II in 2004. The bottom two teams of each group were placed in the relegation pool, from which the two bottom teams were demoted to the Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV in 2004.


2003 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III, Promotion pool
The top two teams from each of Pools A and B advanced to the Promotion pool. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.


2003 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III, Relegation pool
The bottom two teams from Pools A and B were placed in the relegation group. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.


2003 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III, Relegation pool, Results of Individual Ties
United Arab Emirates and Kyrgyzstan demoted to Group IV for 2004.


2003 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV
The Group IV tournament was held June 18-21, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on outdoor clay courts.


2003 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV, Format
The eight teams were split into two groups and played in a round-robin format. The top two teams of each group advanced to the promotion pool, from which the two top teams were promoted to the Asia/Oceania Zone Group III in 2004.


2003 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV, Promotion pool
The top two teams from each of Pools A and B advanced to the Promotion pool. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.


2003 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group IV, Promotion pool, Results of Individual Ties
Oman and Vietnam promoted to Group III for 2004. The remaining matches were not played, since they could not have changed the outcome.


2003 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone
The Europe/Africa Zone was one of three Zones of Davis Cup competition in 2003.


2003 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I
The European and African Zone was one of the three zones of regional Davis Cup competition in 2003.


2003 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I
In the Europe/Africa Zone there were four different tiers, called groups, in which teams competed against each other to advance to the upper tier. Winners in Group I advanced to the World Group Play-offs, along with losing teams from the World Group first round. Teams who lost their respective ties competed in the relegation play-offs, with winning teams remaining in Group I, whereas teams who lost their play-offs were relegated to the Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2004.


2003 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III
Group III was split into two sub-groups. One tournament was held in Algiers, Algeria, February 3-7, while the other was held in Jurmala, Latvia,  June 11-15. Both were played on outdoor clay courts.


2003 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III, Format
The eight teams in each sub-group were split into two pools and played in a round-robin format. The top two teams of each pool advanced to the promotion pool, from which the two top teams were promoted to the Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2004. The bottom two teams of each group were placed in the relegation pool, from which the two bottom teams were demoted to the Europe/Africa Zone Group IV in 2004.


2003 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III, Algiers Half, Promotion pool
The top two teams from each of Pools A and B advanced to the Promotion pool. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.


2003 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III, Algiers Half, Relegation pool
The bottom two teams from Pools A and B were placed in the relegation group. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.


2003 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III, Jurmala Half, Promotion pool
The top two teams from each of Pools A and B advanced to the Promotion pool. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.


2003 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III, Jurmala Half, Relegation pool
The bottom two teams from Pools A and B were placed in the relegation group. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.


2003 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group IV
Group IV was split into two sub-groups. One tournament was held in Lagos, Nigeria, February 5–9, on hard courts, while the other was held in San Marino, June 11–15,  on clay courts.


2003 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group IV, Format
The teams in each sub-group were split into two pools and played in a round-robin format. In the San Marino tournament, the top two teams from each pool advanced to a promotion pool, from which the two top teams were promoted to the Europe/Africa Zone Group III in 2004. In the Lagos tournament, no promotion round was held; the two teams which won their respective round-robin pools were promoted directly to Group III.


2003 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group IV, San Marino Half, Promotion pool
The top two teams from each of Pools A and B advanced to the Promotion pool. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.


2003 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group IV, San Marino Half, Placement pool
The bottom two teams from Pools A and B played off to determine places 5–7. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.


2003 Davis Cup World Group
The World Group was the highest level of Davis Cup competition in 2003. The first-round losers went into the Davis Cup World Group Play-offs, and the winners progress to the quarterfinals. The quarterfinalists were guaranteed a World Group spot for 2004.


2003 Davis Cup World Group Play-offs
The World Group Play-offs were the main play-offs of 2003 Davis Cup. Winners advanced to the World Group, and losers were relegated in the Zonal Regions I.


2003 Davis Cup World Group Play-offs, Teams
Bold indicates team has qualified for the 2004 Davis Cup World Group.


2003 Daytona 500
The 2003 Daytona 500, the 45th running of the event, was the first race of the 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup season, having been held on February 16 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. 2000 NASCAR Busch Series champion Jeff Green won his second career Winston Cup pole.


2003 Daytona 500
Prior to the race, the drivers paid tribute by having decals on their cars in honor of the astronauts who were killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster two weeks earlier, similar to the 1986 Daytona 500, in which they paid tribute to the fallen crew members of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In addition, the pledge of allegiance and pre-race opening invocation given by the Reverend Hal Marchman, in his next-to-last running of the event before his retirement and subsequent death, were recited. Grammy Award-winning artist Mariah Carey then performed the national anthem.


2003 Daytona 500
The race ended after 109 laps when rain had begun pouring on the track. Michael Waltrip won the race for the second time in three years, giving him his third NASCAR Winston Cup win; all of his wins to that point had been in races held at Daytona. It was the first of Waltrip's two wins in 2003, both coming in restrictor plate races (he later won the EA Sports 500 at Talladega in October for his fourth and last Cup win). For the first time since 1966, the race was stopped due to rain; at 272.5 miles, it had been the shortest Daytona 500 ever.


2003 Daytona 500
During lap 58 into the race, Ryan Newman had a wild accident in the tri-oval, where his No. 12 Dodge tumbled end-over-end onto the track's infield grass. Thankfully, he was not injured in the crash.


2003 Daytona 500
This is the first Daytona 500 event that respected Winston Cup veteran Dave Marcis did not attempt since 1967, a whole season before he had started driving.


2003 Daytona 500, Race summary
The green flag came nearly half an hour earlier than planned, due to the impending rain showers which officials feared would lead to the race having to be completed on another day. Jeff Green was out in front at the start of the race, but he was quickly passed by Michael Waltrip who led the first 34 laps. On lap 42, the race's first caution came out after Bobby Labonte spun out entering the backstretch. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. took the lead from Tony Stewart as the field raced back to the caution. The first round of green flag pit stops came on lap 50.


2003 Daytona 500, Race summary
The most significant incident of the race came on lap 58: Ryan Newman was running solidly in the Top 15, but defending Daytona 500 champion Ward Burton hit Ken Schrader and both he and Newman hit the wall. The rear tire fixture underneath Newman's car detached from the car as he went sliding into the infield grass, and the No.12 went airborne and when it landed, its right-rear wheel dug into the dirt, causing Newman to flip several times before landing on its roof.


2003 Daytona 500, Race summary
Most of the car came apart in the infield, but Newman was uninjured and was able to walk away from the crash under his own power. Following Newman's flip, there were six caution laps, during which a light rain began to fall, so the race was red-flagged when the rain became heavier.


2003 Daytona 500, Race summary
Following a rain delay which lasted over an hour, the race restarted with Michael Waltrip back in front. The race remained under the green flag until lap 95, when Jeff Green and Jimmy Spencer collided entering turn 4, bringing out a third caution. Spencer ended up hitting the frontstretch retaining wall and coming to rest just past the start-finish line. Spencer had a very similar crash in the 2000 race. A caution came on lap 103 for debris, and then Ward Burton hit the turn 4 wall on lap 106, bringing out another.


2003 Daytona 500, Race summary
There were three yellow flag laps after Burton's crash, and the race was once red-flagged again due to more rain. Although it briefly looked as if the race would get back underway, the race was eventually called off due to the forecast of more rain and Michael Waltrip was declared as the winner. It was his third career Winston Cup win both overall and at Daytona, and his second career Daytona 500 win. Coincidentally, Waltrip's first three wins came in the first three Daytona races broadcast by Fox.


2003 Daytona 500, Race summary
This was the third Daytona 500 to have been shortened by rain, following the races held in 1965 and 1966. At 272.5 miles and 109 lap, this race was also the shortest Daytona 500 ever.


2003 Daytona 500, Results
W = Past winner of the Daytona 500;R = Daytona 500/NASCAR Winston Cup Series Rookie


2003 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election
The 2003 Dehradun Municipal Corporation election was a municipal election to the Dehradun Municipal Corporation, which governs Dehradun, the largest city in Uttarakhand.


2003 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team
The 2003 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team represented the University of Delaware in the 2003 NCAA Division I-AA football season. They played their home games at Delaware Stadium in Newark, Delaware. They were champions of the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) and advanced to the National Championship Game, where they shut out Colgate, 40–0. They finished with a record of 15–1, 8–1 in A-10 play.


2003 Delhi Legislative Assembly election
The Delhi state assembly elections 2003 were elections for the Legislative Assembly of Delhi held on 1 December 2003 with the results declared on 4 December. The Indian National Congress retained control of the Legislative Assembly. Of the 70 elected legislators 63 were men and 7 women.


2003 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships
The 2003 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Delray Beach Tennis Center in Delray Beach, Florida in the United States and was part of the International Series of the 2003 ATP Tour. It was the 11th edition of the tournament and was held from March 3 through March 9, 2003. Fourth-seeded Jan-Michael Gambill won the singles title.


2003 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles
Leander Paes /  Nenad Zimonjić defeated  Raemon Sluiter /  Martin Verkerk 7–5, 3–6, 7–5


2003 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships – Doubles
Martin Damm and Cyril Suk were the defending champions but did not compete that year.


2003 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships – Doubles
Leander Paes and Nenad Zimonjić won in the final 7–5, 3–6, 7–5 against Raemon Sluiter and Martin Verkerk.


2003 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships – Singles
Davide Sanguinetti was the defending champion but did not compete that year.


2003 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships – Singles
Jan-Michael Gambill won in the final 6–0, 7–6(7–5) against Mardy Fish.


2003 Delta State gubernatorial election
The 2003 Delta State gubernatorial election occurred on April 19, 2003. Incumbent Governor, PDP's James Ibori won election for a second term, defeating ANPP's Lucky Oghene Omoru and four other candidates.


2003 Delta State gubernatorial election
James Ibori emerged winner in the PDP gubernatorial primary election. His running mate was Benjamin Elue.


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


2003 Delta State gubernatorial election, Results
A total of six candidates registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission to contest in the election. Incumbent Governor, PDP's James Ibori won election for a second term, defeating five other candidates.


2003 Delta State gubernatorial election, Results
The total number of registered voters in the state was 1,607,337. However, only 56.44% (i.e. 907,251) of registered voters participated in the exercise.


2003 Democratic Progressive Party presidential primary
The 2003 Democratic Progressive Party presidential primary was the selection process by which the Democratic Progressive Party of the Republic of China (Taiwan) chose its candidate for the 2004 presidential election. The DPP candidate for president was not selected because only one person, the incumbent President Chen Shui-bian, wanted to take the ticket.


2003 Denmark Open darts
2003 Denmark Open is a darts tournament, which took place in Denmark in 2003.


2003 Denver Broncos season
The 2003 Denver Broncos season was the franchise's 34th season in the National Football League and the 44th overall.


2003 Denver Broncos season
After the departure of Brian Griese, who signed with his father's team, the Dolphins, the Broncos acquired Jake Plummer, who had been struggling in recent years with Arizona.


2003 Denver Broncos season
After two seasons of mediocrity, the Broncos rebounded with a 10–6 record. They also earned their first playoff berth since 2000. But Denver's season ended with a 41–10 blowout to the Indianapolis Colts in the Wildcard round. Following the season, Clinton Portis was traded to the Washington Redskins, and Shannon Sharpe and Ed McCaffrey both retired.


2003 Denver mayoral election
The 2003 Denver mayoral election was held on May 6 and June 3, 2003.


2003 Derby City Council election
The 2003 Derby City Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Derby City Council in England. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour Party lost overall control of the council to no overall control.


2003 Derbyshire Dales District Council election
The 2003 Derbyshire Dales District Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Derbyshire Dales District Council in Derbyshire, England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1999. The Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2003 Derbyshire Dales District Council election, Background
Before the election the Conservatives had a majority on the council with 21 seats, compared to 9 for the Liberal Democrats, 6 for Labour and 3 independents.


2003 Derbyshire Dales District Council election, Background
Issues at the election included housing, with the Conservatives saying they would make more land available, council tax, where the Liberal Democrats attacked the Conservatives for a 19.9% increase, and waste collection, with Labour objecting to the end of large waste collection, which they said had led to fly tipping. The Liberal Democrats said they were targeting seats in the villages of Baslow and Taddington, while Labour said they were aiming for Darley Dale. However the Conservatives were guaranteed seats after the election, as 13 of their candidates faced no opposition, the highest number of any council in the country.


2003 Derbyshire Dales District Council election, Election result
The Conservatives gained 3 seats to increase their majority on the council with 24 councillors, after gaining seats from independents in Bakewell ward. The Liberal Democrats remained on 9 seats, while Labour finished with 5 seats and 1 independent was elected. Turnout at the election varied between a high of 52% and a low of 24%, but was down on the 1999 election.


2003 Derbyshire Dales District Council election, By-elections between 2003 and 2007, All Saints Matlock
A by-election in All Saints Matlock was held on 27 November 2003 after the Liberal Democrat councillor Martin Burfoot was forced to resign after complaints of a conflict of interest due to his holding a position on the Peak District National Park Authority. His wife Sue Burfoot held the seat for the Liberal Democrats.


2003 Derrybrien landslide
The 2003 Derrybrien landslide was a landslide which occurred on 31 October 2003 on the side of the hill called Cashlaundrumlahan, near Derrybrien in Ireland. It was focused around turbine 68 in the Derrybrien wind farm, and disrupted further construction.


2003 Derrybrien landslide
The landslide dislodged 450,000 cubic metres of peat after days of dry weather. While initially coming to rest 2.5 km away, it moved further three weeks later when rains came, entering the "Derrywee River" or Abhainn Da Loilioch, and eventually spilled 20 km away into "Lough Cutra". The lake was also the source of the townland of Gort's drinking water, and this caused disruptions to supply.


2003 Derrybrien landslide
An impact assessment on the wildlife within the lake determined that more than 50 per cent of fish in the lake had been killed due to this pollution, about 50,000 fish of all ages and species groups had perished. A smaller peat slide near turbine 17 had occurred prior to the main movement on the 16th but it did not result in the suspension of the construction of the wind turbine farm.


2003 Derrybrien landslide
In 2004, the engineering and construction companies (associated with the wind farm development) were convicted of being responsible for the pollution, while the charges against the wind farm company itself were dismissed. In 2008, the European Court of Justice ruled against the Irish government, noting that an environmental impact assessment should have been undertaken before the project was allowed to proceed.


2003 Des Moines mayoral election
The 2003 Des Moines mayoral election was held on October 7, and November 4, 2003 to elect the mayor of Des Moines, Iowa. It saw the election of Frank Cownie.


2003 Detroit Lions season
The 2003 Detroit Lions season was the 74th season in franchise history.


2003 Detroit Lions season
Prior to the season, the Lions hired Steve Mariucci, who was well known for his tenure with the San Francisco 49ers, as their head coach. He spent two and a half seasons with the Lions until his firing in November 2005.


2003 Detroit Lions season
The season saw the team draft Charles Rogers with the second overall pick in the 2003 NFL Draft. However, on-and-off the field issues, and later injuries, interrupted his career. He was released by the Lions in 2006, and immediately went out of the NFL. Much like quarterback Ryan Leaf, Rogers remains one of the biggest draft busts in the contemporary NFL.


2003 Detroit Lions season, Offseason
The Lions bolstered their defense by signing linebacker Earl Holmes, defensive tackle Dan Wilkinson and cornerback Dré Bly.


2003 Detroit Lions season, Schedule
In addition to their regular games with NFC North divisional rivals, the Lions played teams from the NFC West and AFC West according to the NFL's schedule rotation, and also played games against the Carolina Panthers and Dallas Cowboys, who had finished fourth in their respective divisions in 2002.


2003 Detroit Shock season
The 2003 WNBA season was the sixth for the Detroit Shock. The Shock won the WNBA Finals for the first time in franchise history. This season was better known as, "From Worst To First".


2003 Detroit Shock season, Offseason, WNBA Draft
Cheryl Ford (daughter of NBA great Karl Malone) helped the Detroit Shock win a WNBA Championship in her first season.


2003 Detroit Shock season, Player stats
Note: GP= Games played; FG = Field Goals; MIN= Minutes; REB= Rebounds; AST= Assists; STL = Steals; BLK = Blocks; PTS = Points


2003 Detroit Tigers season
The 2003 Detroit Tigers season was team's 103rd season. They finished with the most losses in American League history, and came within one loss of tying the 1962 New York Mets for the most losses in modern major league history. This would be the last year in which the team would lose 100 or more games in a season until 2019. The team went 43–119, which surpassed the 1916 Philadelphia Athletics for the most losses in American League history.


2003 Detroit Tigers season
But due to a shorter season in 1916, the Athletics had a worse winning percentage and seven fewer wins (36-117 record) than the 2003 Tigers. The Tigers were outscored by 337 runs over the course of the season (928 to 591) and finished 47 games behind the Minnesota Twins. Blame for the dismal season was shared by both the pitching staff, which had an ERA of 5.30, and the batters, who finished with a team batting average of .240, 19 points below the American League's .259 batting average.


2003 Detroit Tigers season, Season overview
Reeling off yet another losing season in 2002, management found themselves in a big hole: a farm system that wasn't producing, a big-league club with major deficiencies, and contracts being paid to veterans not playing to expectations; those who did produce - Juan Acevedo, Randall Simon, and Robert Fick, did not return for 2003. Piloting the team was first-year manager and longtime Tiger favorite, Alan Trammell, who had a dilemma nearly everywhere on the roster, particularly the starting rotation.


2003 Detroit Tigers season, Season overview
Gary Knotts, who had pitched mostly in relief in his career, was to be converted to a starting role; Detroit area native Steve Avery was looking to make a comeback after not pitching in two years; two untested rookies, Jeremy Bonderman - drafted straight out of high school - and Nate Robertson - acquired in a trade for Mark Redman to the Florida Marlins - also vied for their chances to make the big-league rotation.


2003 Detroit Tigers season, Season overview
Results were nothing short of disastrous. The Tigers lost their first nine games, won their first against Chicago on April 12, then proceeded to drop eight in a row to fall to 1-17. An almost non-existent offense accounted for most of the team's early season woes, batting a paltry .228 as a team in the first half. To the surprise of many, their young corps of pitchers were performing better than expected and remained durable as the team struggled to score runs and the losses continued to pile up - 18 in May, 22 in June - with no reason to expect any change in fortune.


2003 Detroit Tigers season, Season overview
By the end of May, the Tigers were 14–39, 16.5 games out of first, and their season was all but finished. On August 30, after a 5–2 loss to the White Sox, the Tigers had lost 100 games for the second straight season; furthermore, they were gaining nationwide attention as they seemed a sure bet to break the infamous 1962 Mets' record for most losses in a season. Looking for a spark from the farm system, players were constantly being shuffled back and forth between Detroit and nearby Toledo, where the team's Triple-AAA affiliate Toledo Mud Hens played.


2003 Detroit Tigers season, Season overview
Unfortunately, the Mud Hens were not well-stocked, either, compounding frustrations for a team already in complete disarray. Meanwhile, the pitching staff, which had remained remarkably intact through the first half, finally collapsed; Mike Maroth lost 21 games, the first MLB pitcher to lose 20 games in a season since Brian Kingman lost 20 for the 1980 Oakland Athletics, while Jeremy Bonderman lost 19 before Trammell mercifully pulled him from the rotation with two weeks remaining. Tigers' starters Maroth, Bonderman and Cornejo were the top three pitchers in losses for the 2003 season, the only time in Major League history that one team had the top three losers in a season. Franklyn German had the most saves on the team, with five in limited opportunities.


2003 Detroit Tigers season, Season overview
On September 22, the Tigers had lost ten straight and 118 on the season. Just as they appeared likely to go into the record books for futility, the Tigers roared back to life and won five of their last six games to finish 43-119. While it was one game short of the 120 losses by the 1962 Mets, it was still the most losses in American League history and one of the worst seasons for a non-expansion team in modern baseball history.


2003 Detroit Tigers season, Season overview
The final series of the season was particularly memorable against the division champion Minnesota Twins, 48 games ahead of Detroit. The Twins sat their starters for almost all of the series in order to keep players rested for the playoffs. On September 27, in their next-to-last game, the Tigers came back from an 8–0 deficit to beat the Twins, 9-8 - on a strikeout wild pitch, an appropriate finish to a team that had struggled mightily all summer long. The Tigers then won the season finale, 9–4, to avoid tying the record and received a standing ovation from the crowd.


2003 Detroit Tigers season, Season overview
While the 2003 Tigers finished with the third-most losses in major league history (behind the 1899 Cleveland Spiders and 1962 Mets), they fare slightly better based on winning percentage.


2003 Detroit Tigers season, Season overview
As of 2020, the 2003 Tigers rank only as the 12th worst team in history based on winning percentage (minimum 120 games), but unlike the 2003 Tigers, most of the other teams usually described as the worst of all time were plagued by significant off-field troubles:


2003 Detroit Tigers season, Season overview
For this reason, the 2003 Tigers have been described as being possibly "the worst team of all time without a good excuse."


2003 Detroit Tigers season, Season overview
Designated hitter/left fielder Dmitri Young was the one member of the 2003 Tigers to have a truly good year, with a .297 batting average, 29 home runs, and .537 slugging percentage. According to Win Shares, the Tigers would have had about six fewer wins without him.


2003 Detroit Tigers season, Season overview
On the pitching staff, Jamie Walker stands out as the one pitcher who had a good season. Walker appeared in 78 games (2nd most in the AL) and had an ERA of 3.32 (Adjusted ERA+ of 130).


2003 Detroit Tigers season, Season overview
Some blamed first-year manager Alan Trammell for the team's performance. However, the 2002 team was 55-106 under manager Luis Pujols and in short, Trammell inherited a team in shambles. The Tigers did not sign any significant new talent in 2003 and lost several key players from the 2002 team, including the team's best starter, Jeff Weaver, closer Juan Acevedo, second baseman Damion Easley, right fielder Robert Fick, and designated hitter Randall Simon. Dean Palmer, who had 275 career home runs, tried to resuscitate an injury-plagued career, and could not succeed at that; his career came to an end. Even with fellow 1984 teammates Kirk Gibson and Lance Parrish on the coaching staff, Trammell could not turn the team around in 2003.


2003 Detroit Tigers season, Season overview
After the 2003 season, the Tigers acquired Iván Rodríguez, Carlos Guillén, Ugueth Urbina, and Rondell White. With the infusion of new talent, Trammell was able to lead the start of the franchise's turnaround, as the team improved to 72–90 in 2004, a 29-game improvement over the 2003 season which was the largest single-season improvement in the American League since Baltimore's 33-game improvement from 1988 to 1989.


2003 Detroit Tigers season, Season overview
Three years after losing 119 games, the Tigers went 95-67 and made it to the 2006 World Series. The 2006 pennant winners featured 10 players from the 2003 team: Brandon Inge, Ramón Santiago (who spent 2004 and 2005 with the Seattle Mariners), Craig Monroe, Omar Infante, Mike Maroth, Jeremy Bonderman, Nate Robertson, Jamie Walker, Wilfredo Ledezma, and Fernando Rodney. (Dmitri Young was released in September 2006 following off-field issues)


2003 Detroit Tigers season, Season overview
The record would not be threatened until 2018, when the Baltimore Orioles went 47-115. A year later, the Tigers themselves would also win just 47 games, but due to a cancelled game that reduced their season to 161 games, they only had 114 losses, meaning that Baltimore had the worst team of the entire 2010s decade.


2003 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting
Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In


2003 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


2003 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W= Wins; L= Losses; SV = Saves; GF= Games Finished; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


2003 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
The 2003 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters was the seventeenth season of premier German touring car championship and also fourth season under the moniker of Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters since the series' resumption in 2000. Unlike 2002 there were ten race weekends with only one race at each event.


2003 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Teams and drivers
The following manufacturers, teams and drivers competed in the 2003 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters. All teams competed with tyres supplied by Dunlop.


2003 Dhivehi League, Overview
Club Valencia won the Dhivehi League. Victory Sports Club won the Maldives National Championship.


2003 Djiboutian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Djibouti on 10 January 2003 to elect the National Assembly of Djibouti. The ruling coalition of President Ismail Omar Guelleh won all 65 seats in the election, defeating an opposition coalition.


2003 Djiboutian parliamentary election
The elections were the first in which women were elected to parliament after a new law was passed requiring a minimum of 10% male or female candidates in candidate lists.


2003 Djiboutian parliamentary election, Background
After being a one-party state from 1977 to 1992, limited opposition was allowed in the previous two parliamentary elections. However, the 1997 elections still saw supporters of President Guelleh win every seat in Parliament. The situation was changed for the 2003 elections, with a law that had previously restricted the number of political parties to four expiring, and full multi-party democracy was allowed.


2003 Djiboutian parliamentary election, Electoral system
Members of the National Assembly were elected from five constituencies with different numbers of seats. In each constituency, the party or coalition with the most votes won all of the seats in the constituency.


2003 Djiboutian parliamentary election, Campaign
The elections were contested between two coalitions. The ruling Union for a Presidential Majority led by Prime Minister Dileita Mohamed Dileita comprised the parties People's Rally for Progress, Front for Restoration of Unity and Democracy, National Democratic Party and the Social Democratic People's Party. They were opposed by the Union for a Democratic Alternative (UAD) coalition led by a former Prime Minister Ahmed Dini Ahmed. The UAD consisted of the Republican Alliance for Democracy, Movement for Democratic Renewal and Development, Djibouti Party for Development and the Djibouti Union for Democracy and Justice.


2003 Djiboutian parliamentary election, Campaign
Five of the parties in these coalitions were new, having been formed after the law restricting the number of political parties had expired. The opposition alliance was hurt by the decision of Aden Robleh Awaleh and his National Democratic Party to move from the opposition to being a member of the government coalition. Government supporters attacked the opposition leader Ahmed Dini Ahmed for his previous role as a leader of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy during the Djiboutian Civil War in the early 1990s. The Union for the Presidential Majority called for voters to support them so they could continue to bring economic development to Djibouti and to reduce poverty and unemployment. Meanwhile, the opposition criticised the government's record, accusing it of numerous failures and called on voters to bring political change to Djibouti.


2003 Djiboutian parliamentary election, Results
The results saw the Union for the Presidential Majority win all of the seats in the Djibouti parliament after topping the vote in all five constituencies. The opposition came closest to winning seats in the capital Djibouti city where they won just short of 45% of the vote. The election saw seven women – Hawa Ahmed Youssouf, Ismahan Abdi Douksieh, Hasna Hassan Ali, Mariam Ibrahim Farah, Kadidja Mohamed Ali, Hasna Mohamed Dato and Aïcha Mohamed Robleh – elected to parliament for the first time.


2003 Djiboutian parliamentary election, Results
International election monitors generally praised the election saying that "the electoral operations have been free from irregularities". However the opposition denounced the results saying that they were fraudulent and that there had been ballot stuffing, multiple voting and some voting cards had not been distributed. The opposition leader Dini said he would take their case to the constitutional court, but called on his supporters to not launch street protests.


2003 Djurgårdens IF season, Squad information, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2003 Dominican Republic earthquake
The 2003 Dominican Republic earthquake occurred on September 22 at 00:45:37 local time with a moment magnitude of 6.4 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). The shock occurred on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic near the town of Luperon, Puerto Plata and 40 miles (64 km) north the city of Santiago de los Caballeros. This earthquake could also be felt in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Research indicated that it was one of a series of westward-propagating earthquakes along the boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate.


2003 Dove Award nominees
2003 Dove Award Nominees for the thirty-fourth annual ceremony of the Dove Awards.


2003 Dover District Council election
Elections to Dover District Council in Kent, England were held on 1 May 2003. This was on the same day as other UK local elections. The whole council was up for election and the council remained under no overall control.


2003 Dubai Duty Free Women's Open – Doubles
Barbara Rittner and María Vento-Kabchi were the defending champions, but Rittner did not compete this year. Vento-Kabchi teamed up with Angelique Widjaja and lost in semifinals to tournament winners Svetlana Kuznetsova and Martina Navratilova.


2003 Dubai Duty Free Women's Open – Doubles
Svetlana Kuznetsova and Martina Navratilova won the title by defeating Cara Black and Elena Likhovtseva 6–3, 7–6(9–7) in the final.


2003 Dubai Duty Free Women's Open – Singles
Amélie Mauresmo was the defending champion, but was forced to retire during her semifinal match against Monica Seles.


2003 Dubai Duty Free Women's Open – Singles
Justine Henin-Hardenne won the title by defeating Monica Seles 4–6, 7–6(7–4), 7–5 in the final.


2003 Dubai Duty Free Women's Open – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2003 Dubai Tennis Championships and Duty Free Women's Open
The 2003 Dubai Tennis Championships and Dubai Duty Free Women's Open were tennis tournaments played on outdoor hard courts at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates that were part of the International Series Gold of the 2003 ATP Tour and of Tier II of the 2003 WTA Tour. The men's tournament was held from 24 February through 2 March 2003 while the women's tournament was held from 17 February through 22 February 2003. Roger Federer and Justine Henin-Hardenne won the singles titles.


2003 Dubai Tennis Championships and Duty Free Women's Open, Finals, Men's Doubles
Leander Paes /  David Rikl defeated  Wayne Black /  Kevin Ullyett 6–3, 6–0


2003 Dubai Tennis Championships and Duty Free Women's Open, Finals, Women's Doubles
Svetlana Kuznetsova /  Martina Navratilova defeated  Cara Black /  Elena Likhovtseva 6–3, 7–6(9–7)


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


2003 Dubai Tennis Championships – Doubles
Leander Paes and David Rikl won in the final 6–3, 6–0 against Wayne Black and Kevin Ullyett.


2003 Dubai Tennis Championships – Singles
Fabrice Santoro was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Sjeng Schalken.


2003 Dubai Tennis Championships – Singles
Roger Federer won in the final 6–1, 7–6(7–2) against Jiří Novák.


2003 Dubai Tennis Championships – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


2003 Dubai World Cup
The 2003 Dubai World Cup was a horse race held at Nad Al Sheba Racecourse on Saturday 29 March 2003. It was the 8th running of the Dubai World Cup.


2003 Dubai World Cup
The winner was Godolphin's Moon Ballad, a four-year-old chestnut horse trained in Dubai by Saeed bin Suroor and ridden by Frankie Dettori. Moon Ballad's's victory was the second in the race for Dettori, the fourth for bin Suroor and the third for Godolphin.


2003 Dubai World Cup
Moon Ballad was originally trained in England by David Loder before being transferred to Saeed bin Suroor's stable in 2002. As a three-year-old he won the Dante Stakes and the Select Stakes as well as finishing third in the Epsom Derby and second in the Champion Stakes. He prepared for the World Cup by winning the second round of the Al Maktoum Challenge in February. In the 2003 Dubai World Cup he started the 11/4 second favourite and won by five lengths from the American challenger Harlan's Holiday with the 11/8 favourite Nayef a length away in third place.


2003 Dublin Senior Football Championship
St Brigids won the 2003 Dublin Senior Football Championship against Kilmacud Crokes. Brigids won by 0-17 to 1-08 against.


2003 Dublin Women's Soccer League
The 2003 Dublin Women's Soccer League was the 10th season of the women's association football league featuring teams mainly from the Greater Dublin Area. The season began on 27 April and concluded on 28 September. UCD won their first DWSL title, the first of four successive league titles. They also completed a double after winning the 2003 FAI Women's Cup. In October 2003, with a team that included Grace Murray, Dundalk City won the DWSL Premier Cup, beating a St James's Gate team featuring Katie Taylor. City defeated Gate in the final 3–2 after extra time. The final was played at the home of Bluebell United and City were presented with the trophy by future Republic of Ireland women's national football team manager Susan Ronan.


2003 Duke Blue Devils football team
The 2003 Duke Blue Devils football team represented the Duke University in the 2003 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team participated as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They played their homes games at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, North Carolina. The team was led by head coach Carl Franks, who was fired during the season and replaced by interim head coach, Ted Roof. Duke won two of the last three games of the season under Roof earning him the full-time coaching position.


2003 Dundee City Council election
Elections to Dundee City Council were held on 1 May 2003, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election.


2003 Durham mayoral election
The 2003 Durham mayoral election was held on November 7, 2003 to elect the mayor of Durham, North Carolina. It saw the reelection of incumbent mayor Bill Bell.


2003 Dutch Figure Skating Championships
The 2003 Dutch Figure Skating Championships took place between 10 and 12 January 2003 in Amsterdam. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing.


2003 Dutch Senate election
The elections of the Dutch Senate of 2003 were held on 26 May 2003, following the provincial elections on 11 March 2003. The 564 members of the twelve States-Provincial elected the 75 Senate members. The new Senate was installed on 10 June 2003. The term of office ended on 11 June 2007.


2003 Dutch TT
The 2003 Dutch TT was the seventh round of the 2003 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 26–28 June 2003 at the TT Circuit Assen located in Assen, Netherlands.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
This race was most notable for the drama that went on before the start of the race, the extremely wet weather conditions the race was held in, Loris Capirossi's initial start from the pit lane despite starting from pole position and Sete Gibernau's battle with Max Biaggi for the victory.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
After six rounds, Valentino Rossi still leads the title hunt with 135 points. Behind him in relative distance is Sete Gibernau with 88 and Max Biaggi with 85 points.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
Before the start, there was drama as polesitter Loris Capirossi might have to start from the pitlane. He set a time of 1:59.770 but was still in the pit lane minutes before the start. Second on the grid is Max Biaggi, third is Valentino Rossi and fourth Carlos Checa. Completing the second row of the grid is fifth place Olivier Jacque, sixth place Alex Barros, seventh place Sete Gibernau and eighth place Marco Melandri. Kenny Roberts Jr. did not participate in the race due to a crash at the Italian race where he sustained tissue damage and had to miss both the Catalan and current round. Replacing him is Suzuki test rider Yukio Kagayama


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
There was further confusion as the race was initially classified as wet, but during the official sighting lap by the safety car, officials declared the track to be dry enough to start with slick tyres, thus declaring it a dry race minutes before the start. As all the riders did their usual sighting lap, it started to rain again and Rossi put his arm up in the air to signal that he did not want to start this way. As an act of defiance, he went into the pits and urged everyone to do likewise, following him to switch bikes on grounds of safety reasons. Mechanics quickly change the tyres on the bikes to put on the full wets, delaying the start.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
As all the riders and mechanics were still preparing, the new race start was pushed back to 15:50 with the pit lane reopening at 15:40 for a total of five minutes. The officials declared that the race distance still remains 19 laps, which is the original race distance.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
During the opening of the pit lane, some take off and do a sighting lap. Officials declared that they are allowed to do one sighting lap, followed by a grid formation and one warm-up before the start. During the sighting lap, one of the riders - Nobuatsu Aoki - got stuck in the gravel and couldn't get out.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
After a relative period of waiting, all the riders line up on a now rain soaked grid and begin the warm-up lap. Because of the reshuffle and delayed start, Capirossi will start in pole position as usual. Aoki however does have to start from the pits because he could not make the start in time. The same thing happened to Aoki's teammate Jeremy McWilliams, meaning that both will have to start from the back of the grid.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
All riders slowly slot into their respective grid positions and as the lights go out, it is Rossi who has the best start and moves up into the lead at the S-Bocht (Turn 1), followed by Biaggi in second and Gibernau in third, moving up from seventh and taking multiple positions by going on the right side of the circuit. Barros makes up multiple positions from the second row and moves up into fourth, also benefiting from Capirossi's appalling start which dropped him way back into the field after he failed to get away properly.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
Jacque, who initially looked to have a bad start, managed to get away well and overtakes multiple people before going up the inside of teammate Barros at the Haarbocht (Turn 2) for fourth position. Also at the Haarbocht, Gibernau surprises both Rossi and Biaggi by lunging up their insides and taking over the lead of the race after just two corners, with Biaggi also snatching second from Rossi in the process. The young Italian now had lost two positions in one corner on the opening lap. The duo then opens up a slight gap back to Rossi.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
At the straight before the medium speed unnamed right hander before Strubben, a charging Troy Bayliss goes up the inside of Barros and takes fifth place from him. At the Ruskenhoek (Turn 8), Jacque closes up on Rossi and Jacque looks to make a move on 'The Doctor' at the Stekkenwal (Turn 9) but decides to stay behind for the time being. Jacque then takes third from Rossi, almost immediately followed by Bayliss who goes up his inside at the fast Meeuwenmeer corner (Turn 13) for fourth position, relegating Rossi from third to fifth in just a few corners. However, just before the entrance of the Geert Timmer Bocht (Turn 16), he makes a late lunge and dives up the inside of Bayliss to take back fourth place in the process.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
On lap two, Barros is now close to Bayliss at the S-Bocht but does not yet make a move. At the Ossebroeken (Turn 4), Biaggi makes his move and takes the lead from Gibernau by passing him via the inside, with Rossi trying to catch Jacque in the meantime. At the Stekkenwal, Barros tries to dive down the inside of Bayliss but fails and has to stay behind for the time being. Behind barros is rookie Colin Edwards on the Alice Aprilia in seventh place. At the Geert Timmer Bocht, Rossi outbrakes Jacque and passes him entering the right-left-right hander to take third place. Exiting the corner, Jacque has a slight wobble which allows Bayliss to get close to him and pass him for fourth at the start/finish straight.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
Lap three and Biaggi now sets the fastest lap of the race. Barros also passes his teammate and takes fifth position. The top six now consists as follows: Biaggi, Gibernau, Rossi, Bayliss, Barros and Jacque. Edwards is now also closing the gap on sixth place Jacque. Gibernau's gap back to Rossi is +1.239 seconds in sector one, increasing to +1.364 seconds in sector two. At the short, unnamed right-hand kink before De Bult (Turn 10), Gibernau goes alongside Biaggi and passes him for the lead. However, exiting De Bult, Gibernau has a slight wobble and loses the place back to Biaggi. Jacque has also repassed Barros earlier on for fifth.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
On lap four, Gibernau goes again side-by-side with Biaggi on the start/finish straight, forcing the Italian to go onto the grass almost and back off slightly at the S-Bocht, aggressively taking over the lead once more. Gibernau also sets the fastest lap, only for that honour to fall to Noriyuki Haga down in eighth place. A bit further behind, Rossi is now under pressure from Bayliss in fourth, Jacque is riding away from teammate Barros, who himself is now coming under pressure from Edwards. Rossi is starting to open up a slight gap back to Bayliss.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
Lap five and Gibernau now sets the fastest lap again. Bayliss closes the small gap right back up at the Haarbocht and overtakes Rossi at the outside of the corner, promoting him to third. At the Ramshoek and Geert Timmer Bocht corners, Rossi gets closer to Bayliss but isn't able to quite make a move and even has a slight moment exiting the corner sequence.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
On lap six, Bayliss crashes out of contention. He tries to pull his bike back up as the marshalls speed towards him to help him, the Australian urging them to push start his bike. He gets going again eventually but has to start all the way back in a lowly sixteenth after losing many places. This promotes all the midfield runners (Jacque, Barros, Edwards and Haga) up by one place. Gibernau is now opening up a small gap to Biaggi in second place.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
Lap seven and the top two now have a big gap back to third place Rossi. The gap Biaggi has to Rossi is +5.021 seconds in sector one, decreasing slightly to +4.939 seconds in sector two.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
On lap eight, Biaggi now sets the fastest lap. Haga now overtakes teammate Edwards at the S-Bocht for fifth place. Exiting Duikersloot (Turn 12), Gibernau has a slight moment but does not lose any time or places. Checa now goes up the inside of Barros at Mandeven (Turn 11) for seventh place.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
Lap nine and Gibernau has set the fastest lap of the race. The top six is as follows: Gibernau, Biaggi, Rossi, Jacque, Haga and Edwards. During this lap, Biaggi closes the small gap to Gibernau and starts to put pressure on the Spaniard.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
On lap ten - the halfway point of the race - and Gibernau is still leading the race. His gap back to Biaggi is +0.895 seconds at the start/finish straight but closes again significantly in sector one. By now, the top two start encounter some backmarkers, most notably Aoki and Garry McCoy. McCoy lets Gibernau through with relative ease, but blocks Biaggi significantly in the middle of the Geert Timmer Bocht, causing him to lose valuable time and touch with the Spaniard.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
Lap eleven and Biaggi now has it all to do to fix the small gap created by backmarker McCoy. This has opened up a +0.912 second gap back to Biaggi for Gibernau. McWilliams has crashed out of the race and is ignoring the marshalls who are more concerned with removing his bike from the gravel.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
On lap twelve, Gibernau sets another fastest lap and extends the gap he has to Biaggi. Third place Rossi is also trying to pass some backmarkers but is forced to go onto the slippery exit chicane at the Geert Timmer Bocht while trying to pass Makoto Tamada.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
Lap thirteen and Aoki has also gone down, the marshalls pushing his bike away from the circuit. He lost the front at De Bult and almost hits Barros as he rolls onto the circuit, who can narrowly avoid him and slow down.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
On lap fourteen, Gibernau now has to overtake the other Kawasaki backmarker in the form of Andrew Pitt, whom he overtakes without any problems. Checa is now rapidly closing in on Jacque exiting the Ramshoek and makes his move at the entrance of the Geert Timmer Bocht, passing Jacque for fifth position on the inside of him.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
Lap fifteen and the gap Gibernau has to Biaggi is now +6.743 seconds. By now, a small dry line is starting to form as the rain has eased, if not stopped completely.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
On lap sixteen, Gibernau is still in the lead. Exiting De Bult, Rossi has a slight moment on the exit of the corner but easily manages to stay on the bike. Melandri has entered the pits and retires from the race. Kagayama has also crashed out of the race, the Suzuki test rider walks away unhurt in disappointment.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
Lap seventeen and Gibernau is still leading without any problems. The gap Biaggi has to Rossi is now +4.954 seconds. The circuit has now dried up significantly. Haga is now starting to struggle significantly, having a moment exiting the Strekkenwal (Turn 9) and allowing Checa to close up at a rapid pace. Jacque behind also has a bit of a moment.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
On lap eighteen and Haga is still ahead of Checa who wants to find a way past. Behind them, Capirossi is also trying to overtake Jacque for sixth spot. Gibernau's gap to Biaggi is now +9.733 seconds.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
Lap nineteen, the penultimate lap, has begun and Haga has crashed out of the race, highsiding over a puddle and failing to keep it after Checa had already passed him. Confused and disappointed he stands up and looks at his wrecked bike in the dirt and grass, knowing that his race is finished.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
The final lap - lap twenty - has begun and Gibernau still has a massive lead over the competition. Biaggi is still second and Rossi still third. There are no troubles for the Telefónica Movistar Honda rider, who cruises home, even checking behind him to see if no one is there and then standing up as a total sign of victory to cross the line and win the race - his third win of the season. A bit further behind is a jubilant Biaggi who comes home second, possibly because he knows he has defeated Rossi today. Rossi himself however crosses the line third with a big wheelie, knowing he's still leading the championship. In fourth comes home a satisfied Checa, in fifth Jacque and in sixth Capirossi.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
On the parade lap back to parc-fermé, Gibernau celebrated by putting his finger in the air, then tries to stand up on his bike again. He also waves at the crowd and makes kissing gestures at the audience. He then stands up on his bike once more and fistpumps the air. Biaggi celebrates likewise, waving at the audience and being complimented by the marshalls. Rossi however, straight up does multiple wheelies to celebrate instead. Gibernau then stops to do a burnout in front of the fans, much to their and the nearby marshalls approval.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
The track gets invaded by some of Gibernau's fans, who surround him and give him the Spanish flag, to which he continues his way shortly after, waving the flag with pride. He continues his festivities with the crowd cheering him on. The other two men, Biaggi and Rossi, now slowly make their way back to parc-fermé as the marshals greet them on. On the way back, Rossi runs out of fuel and then tries to push his bike by foot.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
Back at the garage already is Capirossi, who is talking to his team about the race. Biaggi is the first to arrive at parc-ferme, the 'Roman Emperor' shaking hands with some of the Repsol Honda mechanics, then with some of his own Camel Pramac Pons crewmembers. Gibernau is still on his way, celebrating and saluting the fans in glee. Fireworks are now being lit on some parts of the track, causing parts to be badly visible due to smoke. When arriving at parc-fermé, he gets greeted by his Telefónica Movistar Honda crew and steps off his bike to go and greet Sito Pons, then members of his own team. The last one to arrive is Rossi, who calmly stays on the bike and takes off his gloves and helmet.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
The trio now make their way onto the podium, with Valentino Rossi the first to arrive under a loud cheering from the crowd. Next up is a delighted Biaggi in second and in the end Gibernau comes up with the crowd valiantly cheering as he happily appears. He gives Rossi and Biaggi a hand and then steps onto the top step, holding up his helmet in joy before putting it down. Circuit owner Jos Vaessen hands Rossi the third place trophy, the Italian waving happily at the crowd while holding up his trophy.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
He does likewise to Biaggi who also happily holds up his trophy. Jean-Pierre Aujoulet, the then Sponsoring Manager at Gauloises, hands Gibernau the trophy, which he happily accepts, kisses and then slowly holds up for all to see. The Spanish national anthem plays for Gibernau and the crowd applauds once it stops, shouting "Sete! Sete!" as well. The trio then receives the champagne and Gibernau immediately starts to spray the audience, with Rossi cheekily spraying one of the podium girls instead. Rossi - now wearing glasses - then sprays it at the crowd as well as on Gibernau, who does likewise. Biaggi also sprays the crowd before drinking some of it. The riders, except for Rossi, then put the champagne down as they all pose for a photo moment together.


2003 Dutch TT, MotoGP race report
Gibernau's win now means he closes the gap to Rossi in the title hunt, albeit slowly. Biaggi's second place also keeps him alive and Rossi's third place solidifies his championship lead. Rossi now has 151 points, Gibernau 113 and Biaggi 105 points.


2003 Dutch TT, Championship standings after the race (motoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round seven has concluded.


2003 Dutch cabinet formation
The 2003 Dutch cabinet formation concerned the formation of a new cabinet after the 2003 Dutch general election held on January 22, 2003. It involved negotiations about which coalition partners would form a common programme of policy and it involved the division of the cabinet posts. After severe disagreements in the formation of a CDA-PvdA cabinet, a CDA-VVD-D66 cabinet was formed on May 27, 2003, with Balkenende as prime minister.


2003 Dutch cabinet formation, First information round
The first round of negotiations started on February 5 aimed at a CDA-PvdA coalition. There was large consensus in the House of Representatives and the general public that a cabinet based on these parties would properly reflect the outcome of the elections. The queen appointed Piet Hein Donner (CDA) and Frans Leijnse (PvdA) as informateurs. Jan Peter Balkenende negotiated with Maxime Verhagen and Joop Wijn on behalf of CDA, Wouter Bos, together with Ferd Crone and Jet Bussemaker on behalf of the PvdA.


2003 Dutch cabinet formation, First information round
This first information round stranded however on April 12 on what Balkenende called lack of chemistry. Concerning the last proposal of the CDA the informateurs in their report wrote: "given the nature of the measures which had been set out,  we however saw  (...) in this proposal no basis for any consultation that offered a view on a more satisfactory outcome with regard to the economic indicators and an expedient agreement".


2003 Dutch cabinet formation, First information round
According to CDA-party chairman Marja van Bijsterveldt, the PvdA added new requirements during the negotiations all the time: if you observe that after many weeks in the formation process you end up in a swamp of new plans and statistical macroeconomic calculations with unfavorable consequences for economic growth, the budget deficit and employment, then it is warranted to change course.


2003 Dutch cabinet formation, First information round
According to PvdA negotiator Wouter Bos it was actually the CDA that suddenly brushed aside all programs agreed upon and instead came up with entirely new proposals: We have spent two and a half month for nothing on talks and have been fooled. This is an enormous slap in the face and I also think a slap in the face of the advisers. I feel terribly cheated.


2003 Dutch cabinet formation, First information round
There was much dissatisfaction with the failed information attempt, since the process lasted rather long, without any results and also because in the meanwhile the country lacked a proper stable missionary cabinet. Moreover, the CDA-PvdA option was the only possible majority cabinet formed by just two parties.


2003 Dutch cabinet formation, Second information round
On April 15 the queen appointed the political adviser Jan Hoekstra (CDA) and minister of state Frits Korthals Altes (VVD) as new advisors with the task of investigating the possibilities of a majority cabinet existing of CDA and VVD and one or more other parties.


2003 Dutch cabinet formation, Second information round
In the second information round the advisors examined three possible cabinets that included CDA and VVD:


2003 Dutch cabinet formation, Second information round
Given the demise of the First Balkenende cabinet, the LPF was not a viable candidate but both other options seemed feasible. On April 29 CDA and VVD opted for a coalition with the left-wing liberals of D66. The small Christian parties ChristianUnion and SGP were side-tracked particularly due to the ideological distance between the liberal VVD and the Orthodox Reformed SGP.


2003 Dutch cabinet formation, Second information round
After the advisers had submitted their report, Queen Beatrix requested on May first that they should continue their research and focus themselves at filling in all practicalities and deepening of discussion and aim for a rapid program for a cabinet of CDA, VVD and d66.


2003 Dutch cabinet formation, Second information round
From then on the negotiations proceeded successfully. On May 15 the negotiators announced they were close to a common programme of policy. On May 16 the parliamentary parties of CDA, VVD and D66 agreed on this coalition agreement. In addition, D66 put the question of participation in this new cabinet up for approval by their party congress which was held on May 18.


2003 Dutch cabinet formation, Formation
After a parliamentary debate concerning the information and the coalition agreement on May 20, the informateurs did report to queen Beatrix and the same evening Jan Peter Balkenende was appointed as Formateur. Maxime Verhagen was appointed as leader of the CDA parliamentary party and together with Gerrit Zalm (VVD) and Boris Dittrich (D66) he started new negotiations on the formation of a new cabinet.


2003 Dutch cabinet formation, Formation
Within a week all ministers and state secretaries for the new cabinet had been identified. Because the previous cabinet with two of the three prospective coalition partners already in it had been installed only a year ago, 17 members of the new cabinet held their post and only 9 new members had to be appointed.


2003 Dutch cabinet formation, Formation
One flaw of the First Balkenende cabinet was corrected with the installation of the second: it contained more female members. On May 27, 2003 the Second Balkenende cabinet was sworn in the queen.


2003 Dutch cabinet formation, Aftermath
The Second Balkenende cabinet fell prematurely on June 30, 2006 after the D66 bailed out over objections to Rita Verdonk's handling of the Ayaan Hirsi Ali citizenship controversy. After the 2006 Dutch general elections two key players in the 2003 formation Balkenende and Bos face of for another round in the 2006-2007 Dutch cabinet formation.


2003 Dutch general election
General elections were held in the Netherlands on 22 January 2003.


2003 Dutch general election, Background
The election was held following the resignation of the first Balkenende cabinet on 16 October 2002 after conflicts attributed to the LPF, the new party of the already deceased Pim Fortuyn.


2003 Dutch general election, Background
In the early days of the campaign the CDA of incumbent prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende and the VVD, the smallest coalition party, saw a major lead.


2003 Dutch general election, Background
After TV debates the PvdA (which had experienced a landslide defeat in the 2002 general election) of opposition leader Wouter Bos caught up, overtaking the VVD and regaining some of the territory lost in the previous election. The PvdA also held a leadership election which got the party considerable attention.


2003 Dutch general election, Results
The LPF lost as spectacularly as it won in 2002, with its seat count dropping from 26 to 8.


2003 Dutch general election, Results
The exciting race of which party would become the largest was eventually won by the CDA, which went from 43 to 44 seats, ensuring a continuation of Balkenende's career as prime minister.


2003 Dutch general election, Results
Most of the smaller parties on both the left and right side did not experience significant changes. Several other parties (among them Leefbaar Nederland, a 2002 newcomer) didn't manage to get over the threshold and thus gained no seats. They are not listed here.


2003 Dutch general election, Results
After severe disagreements had frustrated the formation of a CDA-PvdA cabinet, a CDA-VVD-D66 cabinet was formed on 27 May 2003, with Balkenende as prime minister.


2003 Dwars door Vlaanderen
The 2003 Dwars door Vlaanderen was the 58th edition of the Dwars door Vlaanderen cycle race and was held on 26 March 2003. The race started in Kortrijk and finished in Waregem. The race was won by Robbie McEwen.


2003 E2 nightclub stampede
The E2 nightclub stampede occurred on February 17, 2003, at the E2 nightclub located above the Epitome Chicago restaurant at 2347 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, in which 21 people died and more than 50 were injured when panic ensued from the use of pepper spray by security guards to break up a fight. The club's owners, Dwain Kyles and Calvin Hollins, were later convicted of criminal contempt for their persistent failure to keep the facility up to code, and sentenced to two years in prison.


2003 E2 nightclub stampede, Incident
The stampede was triggered by club security using pepper spray to break up a fight. Several patrons close to the commotion experienced vomiting or fainting from the spray's noxious fumes. Coupled with panic from others unaware of the source of the smell, the crowd rushed towards the exits. According to witnesses, many believed the club had been hit with poison gas in a terrorist attack. The only known exit was the steep front stairwell leading to the main entrance on the ground floor, but its narrow doors opened inward, which was a fire code violation. Additionally, while the doors were normally kept open during business hours, they had been closed after the fight participants were ejected. Although at least one emergency exit was opened by a security guard, there were disputed reports of another chained shut.


2003 E2 nightclub stampede, Incident
As the evacuating crowd pushed open the doors, several people already climbing the stairs were knocked down and subsequently pinned by the ensuing crush. Security attempted to pull them to safety, but the pile rapidly reached six feet in height as a result of more than 1,500 simultaneously attempting to escape the chaos inside. Ira Navarro, a former E2 guard who had worked at trying to free trapped patrons, recalled to the Chicago Sun-Times in January 2007 that he had heard other clubbers atop the stairs laughing at the fracas, unaware of the fatalities stemming from the ground-floor pileup.


2003 E2 nightclub stampede, Incident
21 patrons – twelve women and nine men, between the ages of 19 and 43 – were pronounced dead from compressional asphyxiation, and more than 50 others were injured.


2003 E2 nightclub stampede, Aftermath
There were a number of controversies associated with the case. A city-issued court order showed that the owners, Dwain Kyles and Calvin Hollins, were guilty of as many as eleven building code violations, including overcrowding and the club's faulty exit lighting. Police are reported to have been called to the location 80 times in the past two years alone prior to the stampede.


2003 E2 nightclub stampede, Aftermath
Though the Epitome Chicago restaurant was allowed to remain open, Kyles and Hollins were ordered by the city to shut down the second-floor club in 2002, but their attorneys claimed that there had been an agreement to close only a VIP section on the floor. City inspectors then believed that the facility's only business thereafter came from the restaurant, which the club attorneys said was false, as police officers (including off-duty) were a regular presence in handling the persistently large crowds, while club advertisements were common on radio and the Internet.


2003 E2 nightclub stampede, Aftermath
During the trial in January 2007, the prosecution claimed that the club's security staff were improperly trained to handle rowdy crowds. E2 security guard Samuel Bone testified to using the pepper spray to disband a group of fifteen brawling clubbers, which had stopped the fight and led to the instigator leaving the premises. He then said that he was indeed trained in the proper use of pepper spray by the Illinois Police Reserve Patrol, a nonprofit group.


2003 E2 nightclub stampede, Aftermath
On November 25, 2009, Kyles and Hollins were acquitted of involuntary manslaughter charges, but were found guilty of indirect criminal contempt for violating the previous orders to close the entire second floor of the club and were sentenced to two years in prison. E2 and Epitome both permanently closed after the incident.


2003 E2 nightclub stampede, Aftermath
On November 16, 2011, the previous rulings were overturned when a judge ruled that the orders to close down the second floor were ambiguous.


2003 E2 nightclub stampede, Aftermath
On April 4, 2013, the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously overturned the previous ruling regarding the ambiguity of the orders, upholding the 2009 conviction of the co-owners for criminal contempt. In overturning the appellate ruling, the Supreme Court called the court order "certain, clear and concise."


2003 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
The 2003 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen was the 46th edition of the E3 Harelbeke cycle race and was held on 29 March 2003. The race started and finished in Harelbeke. The race was won by Steven de Jongh of the Rabobank team.


2003 EA Sports 500
The 2003 EA Sports 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that took place on September 28, 2003 at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama. It was the 29th race of the 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Series.


2003 EA Sports 500, Race report
One of the most notable moments of the race is when on lap 182, Elliott Sadler would come down and hit Kurt Busch's right side of Busch's car. Elliott's car would spin and fly into the air, doing a full flip before landing on its roof. The car would slide down the backstretch grass into Turn 3, then proceeded to flip onto the Turn 3 surface 4 and a half times, before finally landing on the wheels of the car. Sadler was unhurt.


2003 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2003 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 42nd tournament in league history. It was played between March 7 and March 22, 2003. First Round and Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were played at the Pepsi Arena in Albany, New York. By winning the tournament, Cornell received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2003 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


2003 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2003 Tournament was the first to include 4 rounds of play as well as all member schools of ECAC Hockey in the postseason championship.


2003 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured four rounds of play. The teams that finish above fifth place in the standings receive a bye to the quarterfinal round. In the first round, the fifth and twelfth seeds, the sixth and eleventh seeds, the seventh and tenth seeds and the eighth and ninth seeds played a best-of-three series with the winners advancing to the quarterfinals.


2003 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
In the quarterfinals the one seed plays the lowest remaining seed, the second seed plays the second-lowest remaining seed, the third seed plays the third-lowest remaining seed and the fourth seed plays the fourth-lowest remaining seed in another best-of-three series with the winners of these the series advancing to the Semifinals. In the semifinals, the top remaining seed plays the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play against each other. The winners of the semifinals play in the championship game while the losers play in a third-place game. All series after the quarterfinals are single-elimination games. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2003 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.


2003 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


2003 ECB National League
The 2003 ECB National League season was a 45 over English county cricket competition; colloquially known as the Sunday League. Surrey Lions won the League for the second time.


2003 EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup
The 2003 EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup was the twenty-seventh edition of EHF's competition for women's handball national cup champions. It ran from January 4 to May 18, 2003.


2003 EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup
ES Besançon became the first French team to win the Cup Winners' Cup, overcoming an away loss by a 2-goals margin in the final against Spartak Kyiv. As of 2013 it is the only post-Soviet appearance in an EHF final of Spartak, which remains the most successful team in European women's handball with 13 European Cups.


2003 East Asian Football Championship
The 2003 East Asian Football Championship was the 1st edition of the East Asian Football Championship, an international football tournament for East Asian countries and territories organized by the EAFF. The qualifiers were held in February and March 2003 in Hong Kong and the final was held in December 2003 in Japan. South Korea won the inaugural championship.


2003 East Asian Football Championship
China PR, South Korea, and Japan were the direct finalists. The fourth finalist spot was competed among Chinese Taipei, Guam, Hong Kong, Macau and Mongolia. Hong Kong won the qualifiers.


2003 East Asian Football Championship, Preliminary competition
The Preliminary competition was hosted by Hong Kong. The winner of the group advanced to the finals. North Korea withdrew from the tournament.


2003 East Asian Football Championship finals squads
Below are the squads for the 2003 East Asian Football Championship tournament in Japan. There were 23 players in each squad, including three goalkeepers.


2003 East Ayrshire Council election
Elections to East Ayrshire Council were held on 1 May 2003, alongside elections to the Scottish Parliament. All 32 seats were up and this was the final election to the council using first past the post. The Scottish Labour Party maintained a large majority.


2003 East Carolina Pirates football team
The 2003 East Carolina Pirates football team was an American football team that represented East Carolina University as a member of Conference USA during the 2003 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first season under head coach John Thompson, the team compiled a 1–11 record (1–7 in Conference USA).


2003 East Dorset District Council election
The 2003 East Dorset District Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of East Dorset District Council in Dorset, England. The whole council was up for election after boundary changes and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.


2003 East Hampshire District Council election
The 2003 East Hampshire District Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of East Hampshire District Council in Hampshire England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 1999 increasing the number of seats by 2. The Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.


2003 East Hampshire District Council election, Election result
3 Conservative and 1 Liberal Democrat candidates were unopposed at the election.


2003 East Lothian Council election
Elections to East Lothian Council were held on 1 May 2003, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election.


2003 East Northamptonshire District Council election
The 2003 East Northamptonshire District Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of East Northamptonshire District Council in Northamptonshire, England. This was the first election to be held under new ward boundaries. The Conservative Party retained overall control of the council.


2003 East Renfrewshire Council election
The 2003 East Renfrewshire Council election for the East Renfrewshire Council took place on 1 May 2003, alongside elections to Scotland's various other councils.


2003 Eastbourne Borough Council election
The 2003 Eastbourne Borough Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Eastbourne Borough Council in East Sussex, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats stayed in overall control of the council.


2003 Eastbourne Borough Council election, Background
Before the election the Liberal Democrats had a 3-seat majority on the council, with 15 councillors compared to 12 for the Conservative Party. A total of 33 candidates stood for the 9 seats being contested, with candidates from the Liberal Democrats, Conservatives, Labour Party, Green Party and 1 from the UK Independence Party.


2003 Eastbourne Borough Council election, Background
The Conservatives campaigned hard on the 38% rise in council tax, fourth highest in the country, that the Liberal Democrat controlled council had made. However the Liberal Democrats defended the rise, saying there had been a poor central government grant and that most of the rise had been due to needing to replace the company doing refuse collection. The Liberal Democrats also pointed to the reopening of the Old Town Library and the Beachy Head Countryside Centre, with anger at these closures having helped the Liberal Democrats gain control at the 2002 election.


2003 Eastbourne Borough Council election, Background
During the campaign the Conservative shadow deputy prime minister David Davis visited Eastbourne to support the Conservatives at the election.


2003 Eastbourne Borough Council election, Election result
The Liberal Democrats lost a seat to the Conservatives, reducing their majority on the council to just 1 seat. The Conservative gain came in Old Town ward, where Ian Lucas took the seat for the party, with the increase in council tax being reported as a major reason for the Conservative gain. Overall turnout at the election was 33.6%, compared to 33.9% in 2002.


2003 Eastern District Council election
The 2003 Eastern District Council election was held on 23 November 2003 to elect all 36 elected members to the 45-member District Council.


2003 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team
The 2003 Eastern Illinois Panthers represented Eastern Illinois University as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) during the 2003 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Led by 17th-year head coach Bob Spoo, the Panthers compiled an overall record of 4–8 with a mark of 3–5 in conference play, tying for sixth place in the OVC.


2003 Eastern League season
The 2003 Eastern League season began on approximately April 1 and the regular season ended on approximately September 1.


2003 Eastern League season
The Akron Aeros defeated the New Haven Ravens 3 games to 0 to win the Eastern League Championship Series.


2003 Eastern League season, Playoffs, Divisional Series, Northern Division
The New Haven Ravens defeated the New Britain Rock Cats in the Northern Division playoffs 3 games to 2.


2003 Eastern League season, Playoffs, Divisional Series, Southern Division
The Akron Aeros defeated the Altoona Curve in the Southern Division playoffs 3 games to 1.


2003 Eastern League season, Playoffs, Championship Series
The Akron Aeros defeated the New Haven Ravens in the ELCS 3 games to 0.


2003 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team
The 2003 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team represented Eastern Michigan University in the 2003 NCAA Division I-A football season. Eastern Michigan competed as a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) West Division. The team was coached by Jeff Woodruff in his final season at EMU.


2003 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team
Following the 38–10 loss to Central Michigan, Woodruff, who had compiled a 9–34 record in 3 3⁄4 seasons, was fired on November 3. Running backs coach Al Lavan was named the interim coach while the school conducted a national search for the new permanent coach, and under his leadership the team won two of their final three games. After the end of the season, Northwestern running backs coach Jeff Genyk was hired as the new EMU head coach.


2003 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team, Schedule
EMU was briefly scheduled to host the University of South Florida Bulls in 2003. The Rynearson Stadium game had originally been scheduled for 2002, but the Bulls paid EMU a $50,000 postponement fee to delay the game to 2003, allowing USF a 2002 game at Arkansas. However, EMU dropped USF from the 2003 schedule with no advance notice.


2003 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team, Game summaries, East Tennessee State
EMU opened the season with the East Tennessee State Buccaneers, a Division I-AA team in the Southern Conference. East Tennessee State had a 4–8 record in 2002, and 2003 would be the final year for their football program, which had been losing nearly $1 million per year from 1999 through 2003.


2003 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team, Game summaries, Western Illinois
Following the Leathernecks' win over EMU, Western Illinois received its first-ever #1 ranking in the national Division I-AA polls, though they lost the ranking the following week with a 35–7 loss to the eventual I-A national champions, the LSU Tigers.


2003 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team, Game summaries, Navy
With their win over EMU, the Midshipmen won consecutive home games for the first time since 1997. EMU's offense committed six turnovers, including four interceptions thrown by Chinedu Okoro, about which head coach Jeff Woodruff commented, "You can’t beat a high school team giving up five turnovers...Mathematically, you are out of the game with that. That was frustrating because the defense was playing well."


2003 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team, Game summaries, Maryland
This game was the first — and so far, the only — occasion on which a team from an AQ conference played at Rynearson Stadium.


2003 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team, Game summaries, Central Michigan
Following the 38–10 loss to Central Michigan, EMU's eight consecutive loss, Jeff Woodruff, who had compiled a 9–34 record in 3 3⁄4 seasons, was fired on November 3. Running backs coach Al Lavan was named the interim coach while the school conducted a national search for the new permanent coach.


2003 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team, Game summaries, Central Florida
In Al Lavan's first game as interim head coach, the Eagles snapped an eight-game losing streak with a 19–13 win over Central Florida. After the two offenses combined for 20 second-quarter points, neither offense scored in the second half of the game.


2003 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team, Game summaries, Ball State
With a win over Ball State, the Eagles achieved back-to-back wins over Division I-A opponents for the first time in more than three years; they had last done this in November 2000, in Jeff Woodruff's first season as head coach.


2003 Eastern Victorian alpine bushfires
The Eastern Victorian alpine bushfires were a series of bushfires in 2003 that burnt in the Alpine National Park and Mount Buffalo National Park in north-eastern Victoria, Australia. The bushfire started with eighty-seven fires that were started by lightning in the north east of Victoria on 8 January 2003. Eight of these fires were unable to be contained and joined together to form the largest fire in Victoria since the 1939 "Black Friday" bushfires.


2003 Eastern Victorian alpine bushfires
The main fire burnt over 1,300,000 hectares (3,200,000 acres) over 59 days before it was contained on 7 March 2003. 41 homes and 213 other structures were destroyed, along with tree bridges, and 10,000 livestock were killed. Thousands of kilometres of fencing was also destroyed. This was the longest running fire until the 2006-07 Great Divide fires.


2003 Eastern Victorian alpine bushfires
In early February, at the peak of the fires, around 3,760 people were involved in the fire effort, excluding local Country Fire Authority brigades. This figure includes 160 Australian Defence Force staff, over 300 interstate firefighters, 33 alpine firefighting specialists from New Zealand and 35 personnel from the United States. In total, 15,725 personnel were directly engaged on fighting these bushfires.


2003 Eastern Victorian alpine bushfires
The areas affected included, Mount Buffalo, Mount Bogong, Mount Feathertop, Bright, Dinner Plain, Benambra, Omeo, Cobungra, Shannonvale, Bundara, Anglers Rest, Sunnyside, Glen Wills, and Dargo.


2003 Eastleigh Borough Council election
Elections to Eastleigh Council were held on 1 May 2003. One third of the council was up for election and the Liberal Democrat party kept overall control of the council.


2003 Ebonyi State gubernatorial election
The 2003 Ebonyi State gubernatorial election occurred on April 19, 2003. PDP's Sam Egwu won election for a first tenure, defeating Incumbent Governor, ANPP's Lawrence Nwauruku and two other candidates.


2003 Ebonyi State gubernatorial election
Sam Egwu emerged winner in the PDP gubernatorial primary election. He retained Emmanuel Isu as his running mate.


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


2003 Ebonyi State gubernatorial election, Results
A total of four candidates registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission to contest in the election. PDP candidate Sam Egwu won election for a second term, defeating three other candidates.


2003 Ebonyi State gubernatorial election, Results
The total number of registered voters in the state was 1,002,771. However, only 80.7% (i.e. 809,224) of registered voters participated in the exercise.


2003 Edmonton Eskimos season
The 2003 Edmonton Eskimos finished 1st in the West Division with a 13–5 record and won the Grey Cup in a rematch of the previous year's championship game.


2003 Edo State gubernatorial election
The 2003 Edo State gubernatorial election occurred on April 19, 2003. Incumbent Governor PDP's Lucky Igbinedion won election for a second term, defeating ANPP's Roland Owie and three other candidates.


2003 Edo State gubernatorial election
Lucky Igbinedion emerged as the People's Democratic Party (Nigeria) gubernatorial primary. He had Mike Oghiadomhe as his running mate.


2003 Edo State gubernatorial election
Roland Owie defeated Lucky Imasuen in the ANPP gubernatorial primary election to emerge the party's candidate.


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


2003 Edo State gubernatorial election, Results
A total of 5 candidates registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission to contest in the election. PDP Governor Lucky Igbinedion won re-election for a second term, defeating ANPP's Roland Owie and four minor party candidates.


2003 Edo State gubernatorial election, Results
The total number of registered voters in the state was 1,432,891. However, only 79.74% (i.e. 1,142,519) of registered voters participated in the exercise.


2003 Edo State gubernatorial election, References
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2003 Ekiti State gubernatorial election
The 2003 Ekiti State gubernatorial election occurred on April 19, 2003. PDP's Ayo Fayose won election for a first tenure, defeating Incumbent Governor, AD's Niyi Adebayo and three other candidates.


2003 Ekiti State gubernatorial election
Ayo Fayose emerged winner in the PDP gubernatorial primary election. His running mate was Abiodun Olujimi.


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