2004 African Women's Championship qualification, Format
Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the away goals rule would be applied, and if still level, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (no extra time would be played).


2004 African Women's Championship qualification, Format
The seven winners of the final round qualified for the final tournament.


2004 African Women's Championship qualification, Preliminary round
Congo won 4–2 on aggregate and advanced to the first round.


2004 African Women's Championship qualification, Preliminary round
Malawi won by default and advanced to the first round.


2004 African Women's Championship qualification, Preliminary round
Tanzania won 5–1 on aggregate and advanced to the first round.


2004 African Women's Championship qualification, First round
Cameroon won 2–0 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.


2004 African Women's Championship qualification, First round
Ethiopia won 9–0 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.


2004 African Women's Championship qualification, First round
Zimbabwe won 7–0 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.


2004 African Women's Championship qualification, First round
Algeria won 3–2 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.


2004 African Women's Championship qualification, First round
Ghana won 22–0 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.


2004 African Women's Championship qualification, First round
1 The match was abandoned at the 76th minute after an officer from the riot police 'mistakenly' fired tear gas which dispersed fans rushing to find an open space.


2004 African Women's Championship qualification, First round
Nigeria won 12–3 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament.


2004 African Women's Championship qualification, First round
DR Congo won by default after Gabon withdrew and qualified for the final tournament. The former also withdrew later, forcing the CAF to elect a lucky loser, to select the best of the eliminated teams to qualify for the final tournament.


2004 African Women's Championship qualification, First round
Mali won as lucky loser and qualified for the final tournament.


2004 African Women's Championship qualification, Goalscorers
Akua Anokyewaa and Adjoa Bayor, both from Ghana, were the top scorers of the qualifying process with 6 goals each.


2004 African Women's Handball Championship
The 2004 African Women's Handball Championship was the 16th edition of the African Women's Handball Championship, held in Egypt from 9 to 18 April 2004. It acted as the African qualifying tournament for the 2005 World Women's Handball Championship.


2004 Ai
2004 Ai (stylized as 2004 A.I.) is the third studio album by Japanese-American singer-songwriter Ai, released on June 16, 2004. 2004 Ai was her first top 10 album, as well as her first album to be certified by the RIAJ.


2004 Ai, Background
The album was her second to be released under Universal Music Japan. While she was initially signed to the DefJam Japan sub-label for Original Ai, this album was her first to be released after her switch to the Universal Sigma sub-label. Original Ai was a commercial success compared to her debut under BMG Japan, My Name Is Ai, selling 20 times her debut album's amount and peaking at number 15 on Oricon's albums chart.


2004 Ai, Background
Two singles were released prior to the album, "After the Rain" and "EO," both of which were top 30 hits. "EO" was her highest charting single to date, reaching number 23.


2004 Ai, Writing and production
The majority of the album was produced by R&B producers 813 (DJ Yutaka and Shingo. S), 2Soul, Daisuke Imai, T. Kura and Michico. Ai had worked with 813 and Michico on Original Ai, on the songs "Summer Time" and "Girls' Talk" respectively. "Dreaming of You" was a collaboration with Danish music production duo , i.e. Carsten Lindberg and Joachim Svare, with new Japanese lyrics written by Ai. Ai had previously worked with the pair on her single "Thank U."


2004 Ai, Writing and production
Ai collaborated with several musicians on the album, most notably beat-boxer Afra and rapper Tucker on the single "Watch Out!" She also collaborated with 1970s guitarist Char, who arranged the song "Breathe." The collaboration occurred because Ai happened to be childhood friends with Char's son, vocalist Jesse from the rock band Rize. The pair later collaborated vocally on Char's DVD single "No Generation Gap" (2004), which was featured on Ai's album Feat. Ai. Ai also collaborated with reggae artist Boy-Ken on "Angel." Boy-Ken released an alternative version of "Angel" on his album Everythin' Is Everythin' (2004). The interlude "L'Haleine des Cordes" is a classical piece arranged by game music composer Shirō Sagisu.


2004 Ai, Promotion and concerts
The album received several minor commercial tie-ups. "After the Rain" was used as the Fuji TV music show Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ's January to April 2004 ending theme song. "EO" was use as the TV Tokyo music show Japan Countdown's May 2004 ending theme song. "Watch Out!" was used in TV commercials for the PlayStation game True Crime: Streets of LA.


2004 Ai, Promotion and concerts
An English version of the song "Alive" was used as an insert song for the South Korean drama Delightful Girl Choon-Hyang.


2004 Ai, Promotion and concerts
Ai supported the album with two tours, the 15 date 2004 Ai Club Tour between May and August 2004, and the 10 date 2004 Ai Japan Tour in September and October 2004. Ai also performed at the 2004 MTV Buzz Asia Concert in Seoul, South Korea, as well as the Taipei Music Festival to promote the album. Footage from the Taiwan concert, the club tour and the concert tour were compiled to create Ai's first live DVD, Machigainai.


2004 Ai, Critical reception
The reviewers at CDJournal felt the album had a lot more personality than Original Ai. (2003) They felt the album's sound did not show the "frailty" of other popular R&B acts, and noted the album's "strong beats" and the lyrics from a female viewpoint. "After the Rain" was called "bewitching," and that the song's "sticky with emotion melody wraps the song in a mellow atmosphere." The reviewers felt that Ai's "pressingly questioning" rap in "Watch Out!" showed a high level of technique.


2004 Ai, Critical reception
The music videos were well received at music awards shows. At the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards Japan, "After the Rain" was nominated for the Best Buzz Asia - Japan award. Ai also received two nominations at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards Japan, best R&B video for "EO," and best collaboration for "Watch Out." In 2005 at the Space Shower Music Video Awards, she won the best female video award for "Watch Out."


2004 Ai, Chart performance
The album debuted at number three in Japan, selling 36,000 copies. It became a long charting album, selling three times its first week total (113,000) over 17 weeks. At the time, this was Ai's most successful release, and it became her first release to receive a certification by the RIAJ (gold). As of 2012, it remains her fourth most commercially successful album in Japan.


2004 Ai, Personnel
Personnel details were sourced from 2004 Ai's liner notes booklet.


2004 Air Canada Cup (women's tournament)
The 2004 Air Canada Cup was the second edition of the women's ice hockey tournament. It was held from February 5-7, 2004 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Bad Tölz, Germany. The Canadian U22 national team won the tournament, going undefeated over three games.


2004 Air Force Falcons football team
The 2004 Air Force Falcons football team represented the United States Air Force Academy in the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. They were a member of the Mountain West Conference. The Falcons were coached by Fisher DeBerry and played their 2004 season home games at Falcon Stadium. They finished the season 5–6, 3–4 in Mountain West play to finish in a three-way tie for fourth place.


2004 Akron Zips football team
The 2004 Akron Zips football team represented the University of Akron in the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. Akron competed as a member of the East Division of the Mid-American Conference (MAC). The Zips were led by J. D. Brookhart in his first year as head coach.


2004 Al Hoceima earthquake
The 2004 Al Hoceima earthquake occurred on 24 February at 02:27:47 local time near the coast of northern Morocco. The strike-slip earthquake measured 6.3 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum perceived intensity of IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale. Between 628 and 631 people were killed, 926 were injured, and up to 15,000 people were made homeless in the Al Hoceima-Imzourene-Beni Abdallah area.


2004 Al Hoceima earthquake, Earthquake
The moment tensor and pattern of surface cracks indicate left-lateral strike-slip faulting on a buried NE-SW trending fault.


2004 Al Hoceima earthquake, Earthquake
This earthquake occurred near the epicenter of the magnitude 6.0 Al Hoceima earthquake of May 26, 1994, that injured one person and caused significant damage to adobe buildings.


2004 Al Hoceima earthquake, Earthquake, Damage
Ground cracks and landslides were observed between Ajdir and Beni Abdallah and maximum peak ground acceleration of 0.24g was recorded near Imzourene.


2004 Al Hoceima earthquake, Earthquake, Aftershocks
Several aftershocks killed at least three people and destroyed previously weakened buildings. This earthquake occurred near the eastern end of the Rif mountain belt, which is part of the diffuse boundary between the African and Eurasian plates.


2004 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
The 2004 Alabama Crimson Tide football team represented the University of Alabama during the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. This was the team's 72nd season in the SEC. The Crimson Tide were led by head coach Mike Shula who was entering his second season as head coach. They began their season with trying to improve from a 4–9 (2–6) record from the 2003 season. The 2004 squad finished the season with a record of 6–6 following a loss to Minnesota in the Music City Bowl.


2004 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
The team began the 2004 season at 3–0 with blowout victories over Utah State, Mississippi, and Western Carolina. The Tide's starting quarterback Brodie Croyle was injured during the Western Carolina game and lost for the season. Without him, the team struggled to find consistent offense against SEC opponents Arkansas and South Carolina. The team rebounded to have multiple blowouts victories in three of the next four games, only losing to rival Tennessee. The season ended on a three-game slide, losing to rivals LSU and Auburn, also losing in the Music City Bowl to Minnesota. This season also marks the first time since 1958 in which Alabama was absent from the AP poll top 25 every week of the season.


2004 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Utah State
Alabama opened the 2004 season by defeating the Utah State Aggies 48–17. Brian Bostick scored the first Alabama points of the game with his 28-yard field goal. On the ensuing Aggies possession, Roman Harper intercepted a Travis Cox and returned it to the Utah State 21-yard line. Two plays later, Brodie Croyle threw a 19-yard touchdown pass to Clint Johnston to give the Crimson Tide a 10–0 lead. The Aggies responded later in the first with a 35-yard Cox touchdown pass to Kevin Robinson to cut the score to 10–7. In the second quarter, Kenneth Darby scored for Alabama on a 29-yard run and Ben Chaet connected on a 44-yard field goal for Utah State to make the halftime score 17–10.


2004 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Utah State
On the third play of the second half, Simeon Castille intercepted a Cox pass and returned it 31-yards for his first career touchdown. After the Alabama defense forced a punt on the ensuing Aggies drive, Croyle threw a 57-yard touchdown strike to Keith Brown on the Crimson Tide's first offensive play of the second half to give them a 31–10 lead. After a 32-yard Bostick field goal extended the Alabama lead to 34–10, the Aggies responded with their final points of the game on a 21-yard Cox touchdown pass to Chris Forbes. The Crimson Tide then closed the game with a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns. The first came on a one-yard Tim Castille run and the second on a seven-yard Ray Hudson run in the 48–17 Alabama victory.


2004 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss
Alabama opened conference play by defeating their long-time rival, the Ole Miss Rebels 28–7. After a scoreless first, the Crimson Tide took a 14–0 halftime lead after scoring a pair of second-quarter touchdowns. Tim Castille scored first on a one-yard run and Tyrone Prothro scored second on a 15-yard Brodie Croyle touchdown pass. Alabama extended their lead to 21–0 in the third quarter when Ray Hudson scored his first of two touchdowns on a 13-yard Croyle pass.


2004 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss
After the Rebels scored their only points of the game on a six-yard Eric Rice touchdown reception from Ethan Flatt, Alabama responded on the following drive with a 46-yard Hudson touchdown run to make the final score 28–7. In the game, Hudson ran for 116 yards, and D. J. Hall and Keith Brown became the first freshman receivers to start for Alabama since Ozzie Newsome in 1974.


2004 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Western Carolina
Alabama won their third straight game to open the season against the Division I-AA Western Carolina Catamounts 52–0.


2004 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn
In the 2004 edition of the Iron Bowl, the Crimson Tide took a 6–0 lead at halftime over favored Auburn, but ultimately fell 21–13 to the Tigers. Alabama took a 6–0 halftime lead on field goals of 42 and 22-yard by Brian Bostick. Auburn responded in the second half with 21 consecutive points to take a 21–6 lead. Touchdowns were scored by Cadillac Williams on a five-yard run, on a 32-yard Jason Campbell pass to Courtney Taylor and on a two-yard Ronnie Brown run. Alabama scored their only touchdown late in the fourth on an 18-yard Spencer Pennington touchdown pass to D. J. Hall to make the final score 21–13 after a failed onside kick.


2004 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Minnesota
After finishing the regular season with an overall record of 6–5, the Crimson Tide accepted an invitation to play in the Music City Bowl on December 4. Their appearance was the second for Alabama in the game, marked the first all-time meeting against the Minnesota Golden Gophers on the gridiron and a return to postseason play for the Crimson Tide following a two-year bowl ban imposed by the NCAA. Led by running backs Marion Barber III and Laurence Maroney who each rushed for over 100 yards, Minnesota defeated Alabama 20–16.


2004 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Minnesota
The Crimson Tide scored first when Spencer Pennington threw a two-yard touchdown pass to Le'Ron McClain for a 7–0 Alabama lead. Minnesota tied the game later in the first on a defensive touchdown. The score happened after Anthony Montgomery forced a Pennington fumble that was recovered in the endzone by Keith Lipka. The Gophers took a 17–7 lead in the second quarter after a five-yard Barber touchdown run and a 27-yard Rhys Lloyd field goal. The Crimson Tide responded with a one-yard McClain touchdown run to cut the Minnesota lead to 17–14 at halftime. The second half was dominated by both defenses with Minnesota only managing to score on a 24-yard Lloyd field goal in the third and Alabama only scoring on a safety in the fourth to make the final score 20–16.


2004 Alabama Democratic presidential primary
In the United States, the 2004 Alabama Democratic presidential primary (held June 1) was one of the last remaining tests of some of the leading contenders for the Democratic Party's nomination as its candidate for the 2004 presidential election.


2004 Alabama Democratic presidential primary, Analysis
By this primary, John Kerry already secured the nomination. He easily won with 75% of the vote, including every county and congressional district. The largest turnout by far came from Jefferson County, Alabama, where Kerry won with almost 92%. Also at roll call at the convention, Carol Moseley-Braun received 7 delegate votes despite not being on the ballot in the Alabama state primary.


2004 Alabama elections
The 2004 United States Senate election in Alabama took place on November 2, 2004 alongside other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives, various state and local elections, and the presidential election of that year.


2004 Alamo Bowl
The 2004 Alamo Bowl featured the Ohio State Buckeyes, and the Oklahoma State Cowboys.


2004 Alamo Bowl
Ohio State got on the board first, when quarterback Justin Zwick connected with wide receiver Anthony Gonzalez for a 23-yard touchdown pass, and a 7–0 lead. Mike Nugent connected on field goals of 37 and 35 yards in the first quarter as well, as Ohio State built a 13–0 lead over Oklahoma State.


2004 Alamo Bowl
In the second quarter, running back Lydell Ross rushed for a 1-yard touchdown and a 20–0 lead. He finished the game with 12 carries for 99 yards. Nugent connected on his third field goal of the game, this one from 41 yards out, as Ohio State increased its lead to 23–0, before halftime.


2004 Alamo Bowl
In the third quarter, Ted Ginn Jr. rushed five yards for a touchdown, increasing Ohio State's lead to 30–0. Nugent kicked his final field goal in the fourth quarter, a 37 yarder to give Ohio State a 33–0 lead. Shaun Willis rushed for a 4-yard touchdown at the end of the game, to make the final score 33–7.


2004 Alamo Bowl
Five days after the game, Oklahoma State coach Les Miles left the Cowboys to become the coach of the LSU Tigers, succeeding Nick Saban. Offensive coordinator Mike Gundy was promoted to succeed Miles. Gundy continues to hold the position through 2021.


2004 Alaska wildfires
The 2004 Alaska fire season was the worst on record in terms of area burned by wildfires in the U.S. state of Alaska. Though the 1989 fire season recorded more fires, nearly 1,000, the 2004 season burned more than 6,600,000 acres (10,300 sq mi; 27,000 km2) in just 701 fires. The largest of these fires was the Taylor Complex Fire. This fire consumed over 1,700,000 acres (2,700 sq mi; 6,900 km2) and was the deemed to be the largest fire in the United States from at least 1997 to 2019. Out of all 701 fires, 426 fires were started by humans and 215 by lightning.


2004 Alaska wildfires, Causes of the Fires
Beginning in May 2004, the summer was extremely warm and wet in comparison to typical Interior Alaska summer climate. Much of the rain over the summer of 2004 came during thunderstorms, which resulted in record amounts of lightning triggering many of the original fires near Fairbanks, Alaska. Wildfires are prone to develop in areas with frequent lightning strikes. After months of lightning and increased temperatures, an uncharacteristically dry August resulted in fires continuing through September.


2004 Alaska wildfires, Impacts on Climate Change & Landscape
Alaska has a climate that of the boreal zone, more commonly known as the Taiga. The boreal zone, across the globe, makes up more than 25% of global forests, and when wildfires occur it is a top leader in carbon emissions. Approximately 12% of the world's carbon is stored in top layer soil and this part is the first to burn in any wildfire. These emissions have some of the greatest impacts on natural carbon balance, and Alaska gives its fair contribution.


2004 Alaska wildfires, Impacts on Climate Change & Landscape
Typically Alaskan forest fires make up 41% of the United States' carbon emissions from wildland fires, but more recently with warming conditions and more wildfire occurrences these figures have gone all the way to 89%. Landscape is also changing with regards to wildfires as less canopy is provided after an occurrence, hence soil temperatures may rise and be inhabitable by certain species. When soil temperatures rise permafrost is revealed and begins to melt away. This then leads to Landslides and Erosion.


2004 Alaska wildfires, Impacts on Air Quality
The 2004 fire season of Alaska had large impacts on the air quality and safety of citizens. These impacts were relevant to those specifically living in Fairbanks, Alaska. Deemed by the EPA as a hazardous and unhealthy zone for over 15 days, the city of Fairbanks had about 1,000 micrograms per cubic meter of smoke particulate. To put it into perspective, an area deemed to be unhealthy typically has 65 micrograms of smoke particulate per cubic meter, while an area deemed to be hazardous has anymore than 250 micrograms per cubic meter. Normal levels in Fairbanks, Alaska were around 10 micrograms per cubic meter. The main issue with smoke particulate is not the smoke itself but the matter that is mixed in. Wildfire smoke is usually made up of acids, chemicals, metals, soil/dust, and pollen/mold spores.


2004 Albanian Supercup
Albanian Supercup 2004 is the 11th edition of the Albanian Supercup since its establishment in 1989. The match was contested between the Albanian Cup 2004 winners KF Partizani and the 2003–04 Albanian Superliga champions KF Tirana.


2004 Alberta Senate nominee election
The 2004 Alberta Senate nominee election, formally the 3rd Alberta Senate nominee election of Alberta was held on November 22, 2004 to nominate appointments to the Senate of Canada. The Senate nominee election was held in conjunction with the 2004 Alberta general election.


2004 Alberta Senate nominee election
The 3rd Senate nominee election took place six years following the 2nd Senate nominee election held in 1998, and 15 years after the first Senate nominee election held in 1989.


2004 Alberta Senate nominee election
The election came five months following the 2004 Canadian federal election which saw the Liberal government secure a minority under new Prime Minister Paul Martin. Previous Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chrétien refused to appoint Senators elected in Alberta in 1998. Previous Senate nominees from 1998 Bert Brown and Ted Morton, both of the Reform Party failed to be nominated before their five year term expired. Brown, one of the four nominated Senators was subsequently appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Stephen Harper on July 10, 2007, and Betty Unger was appointed to the Senate on January 6, 2012, becoming the second and third elected Senators in the upper chamber.


2004 Alberta Senate nominee election, Background
In the late-1980s, the Government of Alberta under Premier Don Getty had made vailed statements about holding a province-wide election to select nominees for the Senate with the expectation that Meech Lake Accord would be ratified and the Prime Minister would make appointments to the Senate on the basis of names submitted by each province's premier. The Senate nominee election was featured in the Speech from the Throne in February 1989 for the fourth session of the 21st Alberta Legislature, but died on the order paper when the Legislature was dissolved to hold an early provincial election. The bill was reintroduced in the summer of 1989 during the 22nd Alberta Legislature, which permitted the vote to take place during the October 1989 Alberta municipal elections.


2004 Alberta Senate nominee election, Background
Stan Waters, nominated by the Reform Party, won the 1989 Senate nominee election, with 41.7 per cent of the popular vote. On October 17, 1989, one day after the Senate nominee election, Mulroney stated he was not bound to appoint a Senator by the results of the election, and instead intended to follow the process in the Meech Lake Accord. Getty responded to the comments by Mulroney by stating he would provide a list to the Prime Minister with a single name, Waters. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney had criticized the electoral process, although he nonetheless made a public announcement agreeing to advise Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn to appoint Waters to the Canadian Senate on June 11, 1990.


2004 Alberta Senate nominee election, Background
Waters time in the Senate was cut short when he was diagnosed with brain Cancer in the Summer of 1991, and died months later in Calgary on September 25, 1991 at the age of 71, four years before the mandatory retirement age for Canadian Senators.


2004 Alberta Senate nominee election, Background
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien appointed four Senators from Alberta prior to the 1998 Alberta Senate nominee election, including Nicholas Taylor on March 7, 1996, Jean Forest on May 17, 1996, Thelma Chalifoux on November 26, 1997, and Douglas Roche. Roche, a former Member of Parliament for the Progressive Conservative Party was appointed to the Senate on September 17, 1998, one month before the 1998 Alberta Senate nominee election was held. Former Prime Minister Joe Clark criticized the appointment as a "cynical, provocative and wrong". Alberta Premier Ralph Klein penned an open letter to Chrétien criticizing the appointment and calling for Senate reform. Klein went on to criticize Chrétien stating "the prime minister of this country is saying that democracy is a joke".


2004 Alberta Senate nominee election, Background, Candidates
Both of Alberta's opposition parties, the Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party (NDP), boycotted the election in demonstration of their opposition to the process. As a result, the only candidates to contest the election were representatives of the right-of-centre Alberta Progressive Conservatives, Alberta Alliance Party and Social Credit parties, and a number of independents. After pressure from the Liberal and NDP camps (who did not want their supporters to feel compelled to vote for a right-of-centre candidate), polling officers were instructed to advise voters on election day that they did not have to vote in the Senate election.


2004 Alberta Senate nominee election, Background, Candidates
In early October, Progressive Conservative Premier Ralph Klein promised that the Progressive Conservative Party would not run a candidate in the Senate nominee election, which he reversed after pressure from caucus. Klein's rationale for the boycott was that the Senate was a "federal thing". Five candidates were nominated from the Progressive Conservative Party, including the 1998 Senate election winner Bert Brown. The second nominee from the 1998 election, Ted Morton declined to run, and instead contested a seat in the Legislative Assembly as a Progressive Conservative. The other Progressive Conservative candidates were Betty Unger, a home-care nurse and conservative party supporter; Cliff Breitkreuz, a farmer and former Reform and Alliance Member of Parliament for Yellowhead; Jim Silye, President of an oil exploration company and former Calgary Stampeders player; and David Usherwood, a farmer and financial advisor.


2004 Alberta Senate nominee election, Background, Candidates
Three candidates were nominated under the Alberta Alliance Party, including Michael Roth, a small business owner from Lacombe; Vance Gough a Calgary entrepreneur and business instructor at Mount Royal University who previously finished fourth of four candidates in 1998; and Gary Horan, a small business owner from Edmonton.


2004 Alberta Senate nominee election, Background, Candidates
Two independent candidates contested the election, Link Byfield, the former publisher of Alberta Report and western rights advocate; and Tom Sindlinger, an economist and former Member of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Buffalo.


2004 Alberta Senate nominee election, Background, Candidates
The Social Credit party attempted to nominate Gerry Pyne of Calgary, but were unable to obtain the 1,500 signatures required to get on the ballot, and the party therefore was not represented in the election.


2004 Alberta Senate nominee election, Background, Candidates
As of the date of the election, there were three vacant Alberta seats in the Senate of Canada, with another set to become vacant within six years. Voters could vote for up to four candidates, though many candidates encouraged their supporters to vote for only one, a legal option, to prevent the vote totals of their competitors from rising.


2004 Alberta Senate nominee election, Aftermath
Overall, Albertans were seen as disinterested in the Provincial election and Senate nominee election. Elections Alberta stated the provincial election turnout was 44.7 per cent of eligible voters, while the Senate nominee election saw a turnout of 44.2 per cent (885,289 ballots). Although total turnout included 85,937 (9.7 per cent) voters decline ballots, and 84,643 (9.6 per cent) voters rejecting their ballot. Commentators such as the Edmonton Journal editorial board called the large number of declined and rejected ballots a grim picture for Alberta's Senator-in-waiting strategy for reform. Many Liberal and NDP supporters were observed discarding their Senate nominee ballots, while the proportion of spoiled ballots was higher in ridings and polls where the Liberals and NDP did well in the concurrent Legislature election.


2004 Alberta Senate nominee election, Aftermath
The Klein government sent the four Senators-in-waiting on a cross-country trip following the election in Spring 2005 to promote Senate reform. Although Klein refused to give the group of nominees the opportunity to speak at the August 2005 Council of the Federation meeting in Banff.


2004 Alberta Senate nominee election, Aftermath
Prime Minister Paul Martin refused to advise Governor General Adrienne Clarkson to appoint the elected Senate nominees to the Upper Chamber, instead putting forward three appointees of his choosing: Grant Mitchell, Elaine McCoy and Claudette Tardif on March 24, 2005. After the announcement, Breitkreuz publicly admonished Klein for his perceived failure to advocate for Alberta's Senators-in-waiting.


2004 Alberta Senate nominee election, Aftermath
On April 19, 2007, on the advice of newly elected Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Governor General Michäelle Jean appointed Bert Brown to the Senate to fill the vacancy left by Daniel Hays' early retirement.


2004 Alberta Senate nominee election, Aftermath
Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach decided to defer new Senate elections set to take place when the terms of senators-in-waiting ended, which was controversial. Senator-in-waiting Link Byfield decided to resign as he felt he lacked a mandate. Remaining candidates Breitkreuz and Unger both accepted the term extension. Unger was appointed to the Senate on January 6, 2012, after the mandatory retirement of Tommy Banks.


2004 Alberta electoral redistribution
From 2004–2012, electoral laws in Alberta, Canada fixed the number of legislature seats at 83. Prior to the 26th general election, the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission was given the task of re-distributing the province's electoral divisions. In February 2003, the Commission recommended 83 divisions as follows:


2004 Alberta electoral redistribution
As a result of the re-distribution, Calgary gained two seats. Edmonton lost one seat, and one special consideration division was eliminated. Dunvegan is the sole remaining "special" division - due to its isolation it is allowed to have a population below 75% of the provincial average. Lesser Slave Lake is now considered to be a standard rural division as its boundaries were re-drawn so that its population is slightly above 75% of the provincial average. One urbanized division outside Calgary and Edmonton was added, and two rural seats were eliminated.


2004 Alberta general election
The 2004 Alberta general election was held on November 22, 2004 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.


2004 Alberta general election
The election was called on October 25, 2004. Premier Ralph Klein decided to go to the polls earlier than the legislated deadline of March 2006. This election was held in conjunction with the 2004 Alberta Senate nominee election.


2004 Alberta general election
When the election was called, it was expected to be anticlimactic, with Klein cruising to his fourth straight majority, the tenth for his Progressive Conservative Party.


2004 Alberta general election
Shortly after the drop of the writs, Klein's mother died and all parties suspended their campaigns for several days. After the campaign resumed, Klein avoided making any policy announcements and attended few events. One commentator called it "Kleinfeld: the campaign about nothing" (a reference to the television sitcom Seinfeld). The Liberal Party, which had hoped to hold on to the five seats it had and regain the two seats that it had lost to resignations, began to pick up momentum and became far more optimistic.


2004 Alberta general election
In the end, the Conservatives were re-elected, despite losing 11 seats and 15% of the popular vote. The Liberals more than doubled their seats by electing 17 MLAs on election night while dominating Edmonton, and making strong inroads in Calgary. The Alberta New Democrats (NDP) held on to their two seats and gained two more, all in Edmonton. The Conservatives swept rural Alberta except for one seat that went to the Alberta Alliance, which placed second in a number of rural ridings.


2004 Alberta general election
The Alberta Greens gained in the popular vote, jumping from 0.3% in the 2001 election to 2.8%, and placed third in some places. Although placing second in the riding of Drayton Valley-Calmar ahead of the Liberals, it was unable to win any seats, however. Social Credit placed third in a number of ridings, and its leader tied for second in Rocky Mountain House. The Conservative, Liberal and NDP leaders all easily held onto their own seats.


2004 Alberta general election, Results by region
1 "Edmonton" corresponds to only the city of Edmonton. (Only the ridings whose names begin with "Edmonton".) The four suburban ridings around the city as listed below are grouped with Central Alberta in this table.


2004 Alberta general election, Electoral re-distribution
Alberta's electoral laws fix the number of legislature seats at 83. As a result of the Alberta Electoral Boundary Re-distribution, 2004, Calgary gained two seats. Edmonton lost one seat, and one "special consideration" division was eliminated. Dunvegan-Central Peace is the sole remaining "special" division - due to its isolation, it is allowed to have a population below 75% of the provincial average. Lesser Slave Lake is now considered to be a standard rural division as its boundaries were re-drawn so that its population is slightly above 75% of the provincial average. One urbanized division outside Calgary and Edmonton was added, and two rural seats were eliminated.


2004 Alberta general election, Political parties
For this election, there were 11 political parties registered with Elections Alberta.


2004 Alberta general election, Political parties, Parties that elected MLAs in the previous election
The parties are listed in descending order of number of MLAs elected in 2001.


2004 Alberta general election, Political parties, Parties that elected MLAs in the previous election, Progressive Conservative Party
In the 2001 election, the Progressive Conservatives recorded a result that was comparable to those achieved in their years of dominance under Peter Lougheed. The Tories received 627,252 out of 1,013,152 votes cast and won 74 seats, gaining 11 seats over and above their 1997 result at the expense of the Liberals. This result was achieved due to a resurgence of the party in Edmonton, where the Tories won a majority of seats for the first time since 1982. Premier Ralph Klein easily retained his Calgary-Elbow seat.


2004 Alberta general election, Political parties, Parties that elected MLAs in the previous election, Progressive Conservative Party
On April 8, 2002, Doug Griffiths retained the Tories' seat in Wainwright in the only by-election held since the 2001 election, albeit with a substantially reduced plurality. The Tories lost only one seat since the 2001 election, after Edmonton-Norwood MLA Gary Masyk crossed the floor to join the Alberta Alliance. As expected, the Tories nominated a full slate of candidates for the 2004 election.


2004 Alberta general election, Political parties, Parties that elected MLAs in the previous election, Liberal Party
The 2001 election was generally regarded to be as a disaster for the Liberals. Although the Liberals retained Official Opposition status and received 276,854 votes, the party lost 11 seats to the Tories and won only seven seats, six of them in Edmonton. Leader Nancy Macbeth even lost her own seat in Edmonton-McClung - she resigned days after the election and was replaced by Ken Nicol, the Opposition's sole representative outside the capital.


2004 Alberta general election, Political parties, Parties that elected MLAs in the previous election, Liberal Party
Nicol eventually resigned as MLA for Lethbridge East and as Leader of the Opposition to run (unsuccessfully) for the Liberals in the federal election, as did Edmonton-Ellerslie MLA Debby Carlson. These seats remained vacant through dissolution. The Liberals were led in the 2004 election by Edmonton-Riverview MLA Kevin Taft, who was elected to the position in March 2004. The Liberals had 82 candidates in the 2004 election - they were absent from the ballot in Drumheller-Stettler after failing to file papers for their expected candidate, Don McMann before the deadline.


2004 Alberta general election, Political parties, Parties that elected MLAs in the previous election, New Democratic Party
In 2001, the New Democrats were unable to claim Official Opposition status from the floundering Liberals, but Leader Raj Pannu managed to hold the party's two existing seats—Pannu's own in Edmonton—Strathcona and Brian Mason's seat in Edmonton Highlands (later merged into Edmonton Highlands-Norwood). The "NDs", as they were then known, received 81,339 votes. Pannu resigned the leadership in July 2004, with Mason filling the role of interim leader before being elected to that position in September 2004. The party has also ceased abbreviating its name as "ND in favour of the more traditional "NDP" abbreviation. The NDP nominated a full slate of candidates for the 2004 election.


2004 Alberta general election, Political parties, Other registered parties
The parties are listed in descending order of number of candidates nominated in 2004.


2004 Alberta general election, Political parties, Other registered parties, Alberta Alliance
The Alberta Alliance was registered in October 2002 and held its founding convention in February 2003. Its leader, Randy Thorsteinson had led Social Credit through a modest rebirth before quitting that party in April 1999. The party's sole MLA, Gary Masyk (Edmonton-Norwood) crossed the floor from the governing Progressive Conservatives on June 29, 2004. The Alliance nominated a full slate of candidates for the 2004 election, the only other party besides the Tories and the NDP to do so.


2004 Alberta general election, Political parties, Other registered parties, Greens
Also known as the "Green Party of Alberta", the Alberta Greens ran 10 candidates in the 2001 election, who combined for 2,850 votes. In the 2004 election, the Greens nominated 49 candidates - more than 4 times the highest number of candidates they had previously run in an election.


2004 Alberta general election, Political parties, Other registered parties, Social Credit Party
Prior to the 2001 election, the Social Credit Party was in turmoil following the departure of party leader Randy Thorsteinson. Under Lavern Ahlstrom, the party nominated 12 candidates in the 2001 election (down from 70 in 1997), and received 5,361 votes (down from 64,667). The party had 42 candidates for the 2004 election.


2004 Alberta general election, Political parties, Other registered parties, Separation Party
The Separation Party of Alberta was founded in June 2004 taking over the rights of the Alberta First Party. Bruce Hutton became interim leader. As a separatist party, it is the separatist successor to the Alberta Independence Party, which ran some independent candidates in the 2001 election, but never achieved official party status. The separatist cause was first taken up by the Western Canada Concept in the early 1980s when Gordon Kesler won a by-election. The Separation Party had 12 candidates in the 2004 election. See Alberta separatism.


2004 Alberta general election, Political parties, Other registered parties, Alberta Party
The Alberta Party did not nominate any candidates in 2001, but nominated four candidates for the 2004 election.


2004 Alberta general election, Political parties, Other registered parties, Communist Party
The Communist Party nominated two candidates in the 2001 election, who combined for 117 votes. They ran two candidates in the 2004 election.


2004 Alberta general election, Political parties, Other registered parties, The Equity Party
The Equity Party ran no candidates in this election, The party was de-registered after the Alberta government amended the Elections Act to force a party to run at least one candidate, the party failed to field a candidate and was de-registered.


2004 Alberta general election, Political parties, Other registered parties, Reform Party
The Alberta Party, Equity Party and the Reform Party did not run any candidates in the 2001 election. The Equity Party and Reform Party were also absent from the ballot in 2004. The party was de-registered after the Alberta government amended the Elections Act to force a party to run at least one candidate, the party failed to field a candidate and was de-registered.


2004 Alberta general election, Political parties, De-registered parties
The Natural Law Party of Alberta was de-registered by Elections Alberta in 2001, after they stopped filing financial statements. In 2001 The Natural Law Party did not nominate any candidates.


2004 Alberta general election, Political parties, Independent candidates
29 independent candidates ran in the 2001 election. These candidates won a total of 10,528 votes. 10 independents ran in 2004.


2004 Alberta general election, Timeline
March 27, 2004 - Kevin Taft becomes leader of the Alberta Liberals.


2004 Alberta general election, Timeline
June 29, 2004 - Gary Masyk crosses the floor from the Progressive Conservatives to the Alberta Alliance.


2004 Alberta general election, Timeline
July 13, 2004 - Raj Pannu resigns as leader of the Alberta New Democrats. Brian Mason is appointed interim leader.


2004 Alberta general election, Timeline
September 9, 2004 - Alberta Alliance kicked off five-city "I Blame Ralph" tour in Edmonton. Ralph Klein announces Senate Election


2004 Alberta general election, Timeline
September 18, 2004 - Brian Mason formally becomes leader of the Alberta New Democrats.


2004 Alberta general election, Timeline
October 25, 2004 - At the request of Premier Ralph Klein, Lieutenant-Governor Lois Hole dissolves the legislature and sets the election day for November 22.


2004 Alberta general election, Timeline
October 28, 2004 - Premier Klein is harshly criticized by opposition parties and activist groups after he claims that protestors on Alberta's Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH) who had heckled him did not look severely disabled.


2004 Alberta general election, Timeline
October 31, 2004 - Premier Klein's mother, Florence Gray dies at the age of 80 following a year-long illness. All major parties announce they will suspend their provincial campaigns while the premier mourns.


2004 Alberta general election, Timeline
November 4, 2004 - Global Television Network re-iterates that they will not invite Alberta Alliance leader Randy Thorsteinson to their leaders debate, because his party did not elect any members in the previous election and their sole MLA crossed the floor. The decision sparks anger amongst Alliance members and even disappoints the other three leaders.


2004 Alberta general election, Timeline
November 8, 2004 - Close of nomination's and the Global television leaders debate involving Klein, Taft and Mason.


2004 Alberta general election, Timeline
November 13, 2004 - NDP leader Mason releases a brochure entitled Health Care for Dummies in an effort to mock the premier's reluctance to discuss health care in detail during the campaign.


2004 Alberta general election, Timeline
November 19, 2004, - Advance polling stations open, and Students across the province vote in Alberta Student Vote, 2004.


2004 Alberta general election, Timeline
November 22, 2004 - Voting day for the 26th Alberta general election.


2004 Alberta general election, Timeline
December 9, 2004 - The Court of Queen's Bench rules that Chris Kibermanis (Lib.) won the election in Edmonton Castle Downs by three votes, upholding the result of the initial, election-night result. The PC candidate, Thomas Lukaszuk, appealed to the Court of Appeal of Alberta.


2004 Alberta general election, Timeline
January 24, 2005 - The Alberta Court of Appeal rules that Lukaszuk won the election in Edmonton Castle Downs by three votes, overturning the result of the first vote-count, which had given the seat to Kibermanis of the Liberals. Kibermanis accepted defeat and did not appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.


2004 Algarve Cup
The 2004 Algarve Cup was the 11th edition of the Algarve Cup, an invitational women's football tournament held annually in Portugal. It took place 14–20 March 2004. The USA won the tournament defeating Norway, 4-1, in the final game.


2004 Algarve Cup, Format
The twelve invited teams are split into three groups that played a round-robin tournament.


2004 Algarve Cup, Format
Since the expansion to 12 teams in 2002, the Algarve Cup format has been as follows: Groups A and B, containing the strongest ranked teams, are the only ones in contention to win the title. The group A and B winners contest the final – to win the Algarve Cup. The runners-up play for third place, and those that finish third in the groups play for fifth place. The teams in Group C played for places 7–12.


2004 Algarve Cup, Format
The winner of Group C played the team that finished fourth in Group A or B (whichever has the better record) for seventh place. The Group C runner-up played the team who finishes last in Group A or B (with the worse record) for ninth place. The third and fourth-placed teams in Group C played for the eleventh place.


2004 Algarve Cup, Format
Points awarded in the group stage followed the standard formula of three points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss. In the case of two teams being tied on the same number of points in a group, their head-to-head result determined the higher place.


2004 Algerian Cup Final
The 2004 Algerian Cup Final was the 40th final of the Algerian Cup. The final took place on June 25, 2004, at Stade 5 Juillet 1962 in Algiers with kick-off at 17:00. USM Alger beat JS Kabylie 5–4 on penalties.


2004 Algerian Cup Final
Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 clubs JS Kabylie and USM Alger will contest the final, in what will be the 42nd edition of the Kabylo-Algiers Derby. The competition winners are awarded a berth in the 2005 CAF Confederation Cup.


2004 Algerian presidential election
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2004 Algerian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Algeria on 8 April 2004. Incumbent President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was re-elected with 85% of the vote.


2004 Algerian presidential election, Conduct
There were about 130 official foreign observers in Algeria for these elections, which followed more than a decade of civil conflict. Delegations of observers came from the Arab League, the African Union, the United Nations, the European Parliament and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).


2004 Algerian presidential election, Conduct
An OSCE spokesman said its small election monitoring team observed no obvious electoral fraud, and that the election, while not perfect, was excellent by regional standards and that it is "pretty clear" the results reflected the views of the Algerian people.


2004 Algerian presidential election, Conduct
However, the Kabyle population boycotted the elections following the Arouch directives, only 10% (officially) of them went to vote.


2004 All England Open Badminton Championships
The 2004 Yonex All England Open was the 94th edition of the All England Open Badminton Championships. It was held in Birmingham, England, from 9 to 14 March 2004, and the prize money was US$125,000 or £69,471.


2004 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
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2004 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
The 2004 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the twelfth season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing and the final season under the name All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship as for 2005 the series was renamed to Super GT. It was marked as well as the twenty-second season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The GT500 class champions of 2004 were the #1 Xanavi NISMO Nissan Fairlady Z team driven by Satoshi Motoyama and Richard Lyons and the GT300 class champions were the #16 M-TEC Honda NSX driven by Tetsuya Yamano and Hiroyuki Yagi.


2004 All Thailand Golf Tour
The 2004 All Thailand Golf Tour is the sixth season of the All Thailand Golf Tour, the main professional golf tour in Thailand since it was established in 1999.


2004 All-Big 12 Conference football team
The 2004 All-Big 12 Conference football team consists of American football players chosen as All-Big 12 Conference players for the 2004 Big 12 Conference football season. The conference recognizes two official All-Big 12 selectors: (1) the Big 12 conference coaches selected separate offensive and defensive units and named first- and second-team players (the "Coaches" team); and (2) a panel of sports writers and broadcasters covering the Big 12 also selected offensive and defensive units and named first- and second-team players (the "Media" team).


2004 All-Big 12 Conference football team, Key
Bold = selected as a first-team player by both the coaches and media panel


2004 All-Big Ten Conference football team
The 2004 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players chosen as All-Big Ten Conference players for the 2004 Big Ten Conference football season. The conference recognizes two official All-Big Ten selectors: (1) the Big Ten conference coaches selected separate offensive and defensive units and named first- and second-team players (the "Coaches" team); and (2) a panel of sports writers and broadcasters covering the Big Ten also selected offensive and defensive units and named first- and second-team players (the "Media" team).


2004 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key
Bold = selected as a first-team player by both the coaches and media panel


2004 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship
The 2004 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 21st staging of the All-Ireland hurling championship. The championship began on 16 May 2004 and ended on 4 September 2004.


2004 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship
Cork were the defending champions and successfully retained the title after defeating Kilkenny by 1–16 to 1–10 in a replay of the final.


2004 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
The 2004 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship was the 73rd staging of the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament for boys under the age of 18. Laois entered the championship as defending champions, however, they were defeated by Kerry in the All-Ireland semi-final.


2004 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
On 26 September 2004, Tyrone won the championship following a 0-12 to 0-10 defeat of Kerry in the All-Ireland final. This was their sixth All-Ireland title overall and their first title in three championship seasons.


2004 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship
The 2004 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship was the 74th staging of the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1928. The championship began on 27 March 2004 and ended on 19 September 2004.


2004 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship
On 19 September 2004, Galway won the championship following a 0-16 to 1-12 defeat of Kilkenny in the All-Ireland final replay at O'Connor Park. This was their sixth All-Ireland title overall and their first title since 2000.


2004 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship
Tipperary's Darragh Hickey was the championship's top scorer with 4-29.


2004 All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship
The All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship 2004 was the 26th staging of the All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship, Ireland's secondary hurling knock-out competition. Kildare won the championship, beating Mayo 3-14 to 3-7 in the final at Croke Park, Dublin.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship
The 2004 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship—known as the Foras na Gaeilge All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons—was the high point of the 2004 season, the centenary year for the sport of camogie. The championship was won by Tipperary who defeated Cork by an eight-point margin in the final. The attendance was a then record of 24,567.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Group stages
Antrim staged their match with Kilkenny in Cushendall as part of the Glens Feis who were also celebrating their centenary in 2004. Cork had beaten Tipperary by 3-7 to 1-6 in the group stages of the National Camogie League.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Semi-finals
As part of the centenary celebrations the two semi-finals were televised live by RTÉ for the first time. Cork beating Galway by 3-9 to 1-4 and Tipperary overcoming a strong Wexford challenge with a two-point win thanks to a goal from Deirdre Hughes. Because of illness team captain Joanne Ryan was not named in the starting line-up for the semi-final clash with Wexford but came off the bench.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Final
A goal from Deirdre Hughes in the 19th minute, when she availed of a mix-up in the Cork defence to score into an empty net kept Tipperary on course for a fifth title in six years as Una O'Dwyer maintained her absolute control at the heart of their defence. Tipperary were denied a goal when Eimear McDonnell’s ninth minute penalty was stopped by Cork ’keeper Aoife Murray. Hughes’s goal was quickly followed by two pointed frees from Grogan, and gave Tipp an important psychological boost and a half time lead of 1-6 to 0-4 and when Joanne Ryan’s persistent efforts were rewarded with a goal in the 43rd minute, Tipperary gained even more in confidence.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Aftermath
Raymie Ryan retired as Tipperary manager the following November having guided the Tipperary team to two successive All-Ireland victories, two Munster championship titles, and their first National League title since 1977.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final
The 2004 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final was the 73rd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 2004 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, an inter-county camogie tournament for the top teams in Ireland.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final
This final marked the centenary of the first camogie match, played in 1904. Tipperary won easily, Claire Grogan scoring nine points.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
The 2004 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship final was a hurling match played at Croke Park on 17 March 2004 to determine the winners of the 2003–04 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, the 34th season of the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champion clubs of the four provinces of Ireland. The final was contested by Dunloy of Antrim and Newtownshandrum of Cork, with Newtownshandrum winning by 0-17 to 1-6.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
Dunloy started quickly and opened the scoring through Colin McGuickian, however, that was the only time they were to lead during the match. Ben O'Connor levelled the scores from a free before Alan T. O'Brien completed a fine solo run by landing a point. Dunloy hit three wides, while at the other end Ben O'Connor tapped over another free to increase his side's lead. O'Connor put on a show of deadly accuracy from placed balls throughout the half. He put over three frees – the last of which could have so easily been a goal as he blasted it in low forcing goalkeeper Gareth McGee to deflect it over for a point.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
Dunloy started the second half under pressure. When Martin Curry was fouled in the area for a penalty, goalkeeper McGee stepped up to blast the sliotar into the back of the net and give his side a boost. The Antrim side then closed the gap between the two sides even further after Ben O'Connor missed a straightforward free while at the other end Paddy Richmond slotted over another point for the Northerners to reduce the deficit to two points.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
The match was as close as Dunloy were to come as Ben O'Connor, Andy O'Brien and James Bowles all found their range to put Newtown six points ahead before Jerry O'Connor claimed the score of the afternoon as he burst through on a fine solo run. Ben O'Connor increased his personal tally to ten points, while Alan T. O'Brien put the icing on the cake, and his third of the game was to be the final point.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
Newtownshandrum's victory secured their first and only All-Ireland title. They become the 21st club to win the All-Ireland title, while they are the fifth Cork representatives to claim the ultimate prize.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
Dunloy's All-Ireland defeat was their second in succession and their fourth over all.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final
Due to the similarity of the colour of their jerseys a change was necessary. Each team donned a version of their county jersey, with Newtownshandrum wearing a red and white strip and Dunloy wearing a saffron and white strip.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The 2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2004 Bank of Ireland All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the premier Gaelic football competition in 2005. It consisted of 33 teams and began on Sunday 2 May 2004. The championship concluded on Sunday 26 September 2004, when Mayo were defeated by Kerry by 1–20 to 2–9.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Format
Since the introduction of the so-called "back-door" system, a number of changes have taken place in the championship format. In 2004 the following system was used:


2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Format
The provincial championships in Munster, Leinster, Ulster and Connacht ran as usual on a "knock-out" basis. These provincial games were then followed by the "Qualifier" system:


2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Format
The All-Ireland Quarter-Finals: Each of the four Provincial Champions played one of the four winners from Round 4. The All-Ireland Semi-Finals were on a Provincial rota basis, initially determined by the Central Council. If a Provincial Championship winning was defeated in its Quarter-Final, the team that defeated it would take its place in the Semi-Final.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Qualifiers, Round 1
The losers of the Preliminary round matches and quarter final matches of each provincial championship started the qualifier.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Qualifiers, Round 1
Tipperary withdrew from the competition following the resignation of their manager, Andy Shorthall, giving Fermanagh a walkover into Round 2.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Qualifiers, Round 2
The winners of round 1 were joined by the semi final losers of each provincial championship. The matches would be between a round 2 winner and a provincial championship semi final loser.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Qualifiers, Round 3
The winners of round 2 contest as the matches from here were lowered to four. Matches were open.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Qualifiers, Round 4
The winners of round 3 were joined by the losers of each provincial championship final. The matches would be between a round 3 winner and the loser of a provincial championship final.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The provincial champions and the winners of round 4 contested the quarter finals. The quarter final matches would be between a provincial champion and a round 4 winner.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
The 2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 117th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Mayo were hoping to bridge a gap that stretched all the way back to their All-Ireland football title winning team of 1951. They failed, though less miserably than in 2006. Mayo lost their fourth final in a row; in the end Kerry only won by eight points. Dara Ó Cinnéide was the winning captain, while manager Jack O'Connor won the title in his first season in charge. The match was shown live in Ireland on RTÉ Two as part of the Sunday Game live with match commentary from Ger Canning and Martin Carney.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Largely regarded as one of the most disappointing All-Ireland football finals for many years, Mayo's capitulation drove spectators from the stadium in their thousands with Kerry leading by 1-12 to 1-4 at half time. Kerry racked up a total of 1-20, the highest team score in an All-Ireland football final since the time of 'Bomber' Liston and the 5-11 that decimated Dublin in 1978. Mayo returned to the final two years later, to be torn apart by Kerry all over again in a final when Kerry surpassed the score they achieved in 2004.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
The 2004 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the 118th staging of Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Cork won the championship, beating Kilkenny 0–17 to 0–9 in the final at Croke Park, Dublin.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
The 2004 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was a hurling match played at Croke Park on 12 September 2004 to determine the winners of the 2004 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, the 118th season of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champions of the four provinces of Ireland. The final was contested by Kilkenny of Leinster and Cork of Munster, with Cork winning by 0–17 to 0–9.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, The game
The game got off to a flying start as Kilkenny missed three early opportunities, including Eddie Brennan putting a great goal chance wide within seconds of the throw in. Cork went ahead through a Joe Deane free from 20 metres. Cork had a couple of refereeing decisions in their favour to go with that and give them the slight advantage through the first ten minutes.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, The game
Henry Shefflin got Kilkenny back on track with a point from out on the left and Cha Fitzpatrick followed up soon after with another well taken score as Cork's short puck out strategy misfired. Joe Deane was again reliable from the placed ball at short range, pointing after a James Ryall foul. Deane was also dangerous in open play with the crossbar denying him a goal, while Ben O'Connor's smashed the follow up into the side netting. Kilkenny got the next score with Martin Comerford putting Kilkenny back into the lead and went further ahead after Shefflin pointed a free.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, The game
Cork's Brian Murphy received attention with double vision brought on by migraine, which forced him out of the game. Kilkenny got back on top after that stoppage with a Martin Comerford point. Another Deane free ended a nine-minute scoreless sequence for Cork. An exchange of wides followed as Kilkenny continued to foul at around fifty metres from their goal. Ben O'Connor got his first point as a result of one foul. Brian Corcoran got Cork's first score from play to put them within a point. Shefflin pointed the next long free for Kilkenny, replacing D. J. Carey who had been wayward. Jerry O'Connor replied for Cork.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, The game
Cork had a great start after the interval and Niall McCarthy refused what looked a good goal chance within seconds of the restart, taking a simple point instead. An exchange of points followed. Niall McCarthy's purple patch continued as he scored the point of the game from a puck out, fielding well before turning, running and striking to score. Kieran Murphy made up for a missed Ben O'Connor free by pointing a simple chance. Niall McCarthy put Cork two in front before Kieran Murphy won another free 45 metres out with Ben O'Connor taking the chance this time.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, The game
Kilkenny's response was immediate. Shefflin showed terrific skill to get a shot on target on the volley from Carey's hand pass but his effort was saved by Donal Óg Cusack in the Cork goal and from his clearance James Ryall fouled Deane on the forty, yielding another free chance. Deane pointed the free to put Cork in a commanding position. Subsequent frees from Ben O'Connor and Deane as well as a Tom Kenny point put Cork well clear. Cork conceded a '65 to Kilkenny which they defended successfully before Brian Corcoran putt the final nail in Kilkenny's coffin, grabbing a fine point from a tight angle just before the final whistle.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, The game
Cork's All-Ireland victory was their first since 1999. The win gave them their 29th All-Ireland title over all and put them as outright leaders on the all-time roll of honour.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final
The 2004 TG4 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final featured Galway and Dublin. Dublin started the stronger and led by six points after twenty five minutes thanks mainly to points from Angie McNally and Mary Nevin. However a Niamh Duggan goal and a point from Annette Clarke kept Galway in touch. At half-time Dublin led with the score at 0–7 to 1–2. In the second half, Galway took charge after  Clarke scored their second goal with an assist from Gillian Joyce. Nevin and McNally replied with further points for Dublin while Lisa Cohill and Gillian Joyce kept Galway ahead. Edel Concannon's goal eight minutes from time proved to be the decisive score that won the title for Galway.


2004 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final, Teams
Team: 1 Una Carroll2 Marie O'Connell3 Ruth Stephens 4 Ann-Marie McDonagh5 Aoibheann Daly6 Áine Gilmore7 Emer Flaherty8 Annette Clarke (c)9 Patricia Gleeson10 Lisa Cohill 11 Niamh Fahey12 Niamh Duggan13 Geraldine Conneally14 Lorna Joyce15 M. Delaney


2004 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final, Teams
Substitutes:Edel Concannon for Gilmore (23)Gillian Joyce for Delaney (HT)M.Burke for O'Connell (53)F. Wynne for Conneally (58)E. O'Malley for Gleeson (60)


2004 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final, Teams
Team: 1 Clíodhna O'Connor2 Sorcha Farrelly3 Noelle Comyn4 Maria Kavanagh5 Niamh McEvoy6 Louise Keegan 7 Gemma Fay8 Martina Farrell9 Fiona Corcoran 10 Elaine Kelly11 Bernie Finlay 12 Lyndsey Davey13 Ashling McCormack 14 Angie McNally15 Mary Nevin


2004 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final, Teams
Substitutes:Louise Kelly for Kavanagh (43)Sinéad Aherne for Kelly (47)S. McGrath for Farrelly (49)K. Hopkins for Davey (54)Orla Colreavy for Farrell (58)


2004 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship
The 2004 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship was the 41st staging of the All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1964.


2004 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship
Dublin entered the championship as defending champions, however, they were defeated by Kildare in the Leinster final replay.


2004 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship
On 2 October 2004, Armagh won the championship following a 2-8 to 1-9 defeat of Mayo in the All-Ireland final. This was their first All-Ireland title.


2004 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship
The 2004 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship was the 41st staging of the All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county hurling tournament for players under the age of twenty-one. The championship began on 2 June 2004 and ended on 18 September 2004.


2004 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship
On 18 September 2004, Kilkenny won the championship following a 3-21 to 1-6 defeat of Tipperary in the All-Ireland final. This was their second All-Ireland title in succession and their 9th title overall.


2004 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final
The 2004 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship final was a hurling match that was played at Nowlan Park, Kilkenny on 18 September 2004 to determine the winners of the 2004 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, the 41st season of the All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champion teams of the four provinces of Ireland. The final was contested by Kilkenny of Leinster and Tipperary of Munster, with Kilkenny winning by 3–21 to 1–6.


2004 All-Pro Team
The 2004 All-Pro Team was composed of the National Football League players that were named to the Associated Press, Pro Football Writers Association, and The Sporting News All-Pro Teams in 2004. Both first and second teams are listed for the AP team. These are the three teams that are included in Total Football II: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League. In 2004, the Pro Football Writers Association and Pro Football Weekly combined their All-Pro teams, a practice with continues through 2008. In 2004, the AP reinstated the “Fullback” position.


2004 All-SEC football team
The 2004 All-SEC football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) chosen by the Associated Press (AP) and the conference coaches for the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season.


2004 All-SEC football team
The Auburn Tigers won the conference, beating the Tennessee Volunteers 38 to 28 in the SEC Championship Game. Despite finishing the season undefeated, the Tigers were not invited to the National Championship Game, and won the Sugar Bowl over the Virginia Tech Hokies 16 to 13.


2004 All-SEC football team
Auburn quarterback Jason Campbell was voted AP SEC Offensive Player of the Year. Georgia defensive end David Pollack, a unanimous AP selection, was voted AP SEC Defensive Player of the Year.


2004 All-SEC football team, Key
Bold = Consensus first-team selection by both the coaches and AP


2004 Allan Cup
The 2004 Allan Cup was the Canadian national senior ice hockey championship for the 2003–04 Senior "AAA" season. The event was hosted by the St-Georges Garaga in Saint-Georges, Quebec. The 2004 tournament marked the 96th year that the Allan Cup has been awarded.


2004 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad
The 2004 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Roy Emerson Arena in Gstaad in Switzerland and was part of the International Series of the 2004 ATP Tour. The tournament ran from July 5 through July 11, 2004.


2004 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad, Finals, Doubles
Leander Paes /  David Rikl defeated  Marc Rosset /  Stanislas Wawrinka 6–4, 6–2


2004 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad – Doubles
Leander Paes and David Rikl were defending champions. Rikl was also the two-time defending champion, having won the title with Joshua Eagle in 2002.


2004 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad – Doubles
Paes and Rikl defended their title, defeating wildcard entry Marc Rosset and Stan Wawrinka in the final, 6–4, 6–2.


2004 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


2004 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad – Singles
Jiří Novák was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Potito Starace.


2004 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad – Singles
Roger Federer won in the final 6–2, 6–3, 5–7, 6–3 against Igor Andreev.


2004 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


2004 Allsvenskan
Allsvenskan 2004, part of the 2004 Swedish football season, was the 80th Allsvenskan season played. The first match was played 3 April 2004 and the last match was played 30 October 2004. Malmö FF won the league ahead of runners-up Halmstads BK, while AIK and Trelleborgs FF were relegated.


2004 Alor earthquake
The 2004 Alor earthquake occurred on the island of Alor 21:26:41 UTC 11 November 2004. Alor is an island located in Indonesia, the largest island of the Alor Archipelago with almost 16,800 residents. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.5, on the moment magnitude scale, with an epicenter on Alor at a depth of about 10 km (6.2 mi). It was recorded on 301 stations. The epicenter of the earthquake was located 1,600 km (990 mi) east of the capital of Jakarta. Hundreds of homes and much infrastructure was damaged with 23 deaths and thousands of casualties.


2004 Alor earthquake, Geological background, Tectonic setting
Alor island is of volcanic origin, forming part of the Banda Arc, which was formed by the subduction of the Australian Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate. Currently the Banda Arc is involved in the early stages of an Arc-Continent collision, as continental crust of the Australian Plate becomes involved in this boundary. Several microplates have been formed, including the Banda Sea Plate and the Timor Plate. The boundary between these two microplates is a north-dipping subduction zone, movement on which has caused large earthquakes in the past, including the 1991 Kalabahi earthquakes that resulted in 23 fatalities.


2004 Alor earthquake, Geological background, Aftershocks
There were over 30 noticeable aftershocks between 11 May to 13 May, in the range from Mw  4.1 to 5.4. The aftershocks occurred almost hourly immediately after the mainshock.


2004 Alor earthquake, Geological background, Tsunami
From the official website of the United States National Tsunami Warning Center, NOAA/NWS, according to the research of the Indonesian Meteorological and Geophysical Agency (BMG), there's a tsunami followed by the Alor earthquake Nov 2004 closing to Alor island. And the flooding of the coastline is about 50 meters away.


2004 Alor earthquake, Geological background, Tsunami
There were a series of subsequent effect on the local area:


2004 Alor earthquake, Geological background, Tsunami
Kalabahi city was severely damaged by the tsunami as well as from the continuous aftershocks of the earthquake. Located in the valley between hills, Bukapiting village, was completely destroyed. A landslide also caused by the earthquake destroyed the road that connects Kalabahi and Maritaing villages.


2004 Alor earthquake, Geological background, Tsunami
Maritaing beach, found 98 km (61 mi) north of Kalabahi village, was also hit by the tsunami. In Dali, a floating hotel in the natural harbor was pushed to the shore after the earthquake caused water to recede.


2004 Alor earthquake, Geological background, Tsunami
Some 649 houses were damaged and 205 of them were severely damaged or destroyed. There was large scale destruction of government infrastructure. Three schools and eight places of worship collapsed. The electricity grid of Alor island was shut down temporarily.


2004 Alor earthquake, Geological background, Tsunami
Moreover, airplanes were not able to land, because of the destruction of the local airport in Kalabahi city. Many cracks appeared in the runways, shutting down air services.


2004 Alor earthquake, Geological background, Historical Earthquakes in nearby regions since 2000
On May 4, 2000, an earthquake measured at of 7.5 on the Richter scale, 7.5 Mwc, shook the Sulawesi Province, resulting in 35 deaths. Later the same year on June 4, a 7.9 Mwc earthquake, with an epicentre in Bengkulu Province, caused over 117 deaths.


2004 Alor earthquake, Geological background, Historical Earthquakes in nearby regions since 2000
In 2004, on February 6, a 6.9 Mwc earthquake, occurred at Papua. The aftershocks caused over 34 deaths. Another, on November 26, 6.4 Mwc earthquake, centred near West Papua, caused over 30 deaths. At the end of the year, on boxing day, an earthquake and tsunami occurred in the sea bed off Sumatra island, which affected over 20 nearby countries and took over 220,000 lives.


2004 Alor earthquake, Geological background, Historical Earthquakes in nearby regions since 2000
In 2005, on March 28, an 8.7 Mwc earthquake, centred near Nias and Simeulue islands away from the Sumatra west shore, which caused over 900 deaths.


2004 Alor earthquake, Geological background, Historical Earthquakes in nearby regions since 2000
Another earthquake on May 27, 2006, measuring 6.4 Mwc, with an epicentre near the central city of Yogyakarta, caused over 5,000 deaths.


2004 Alor earthquake, Damage and casualties
According to ABC News Online 14 November 2004Many roads on Alor island have been badly damaged


2004 Alor earthquake, Damage and casualties
Aftershocks from the earthquake continued for  over half of a month, with large and widespread destruction of infrastructure including thousands of houses, schools, offices and places of worship although local hospitals mostly remained undamaged, the hospitals were unable to cope with large numbers of casualties.


2004 Alor earthquake, Social reactions
At the first phase of Alor earthquake November 2004, 4,500 affected households received emergency shelter and non-perishable material; after, the same number of households are assigned with the essential building material and basic tools


2004 Alor earthquake, Social reactions
According to the red cross document, the residual balance of CHF 420,054 (66% of the total emergency appeal income), was assigned to the Tsunami Emergency and Recovery Program 2005 - 2010 for Indonesia. The detailed composition of the funds' balance is in the following:


2004 Alor earthquake, Social reactions
And according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:


2004 Alor earthquake, Social reactions
“cash assistance allocated by the central government has rounded about USD 172,000.”


2004 Alor earthquake, Reconstruction of the earthquake
Infrastructure is now being reinforced by anti-seismic design with the shock-resistant technology; mostly in houses and the schools. They are mostly able to resist earthquakes measuring to 8 on the Richter scale.


2004 Alor earthquake, Reconstruction of the earthquake, Memorial
The disaster is commemorated on 10 December of every year with most of the local schools gather and singing songs to the national flag. The local government and media will also memorize that earthquake on TV channels and official websites by documentary films and videos. The total amount of help donated to victims is US$ 420,054.


2004 Alor earthquake, Influence of Earthquake to local economy
All industries were affected in the short and long term. The residents in Alor island still practice subsistence agriculture with poorly developed infrastructure which is prone to frequent natural disasters. Another main industry on the island is the fishing industry and the mining industry with natural gas, ipsum, kaolin, petroleum, tin, gold and various diamond mines on the island. The island is a recognised diving destination, making local tourism one of the major income source of Alor inhabitants, with mainly diving and snorkeling.


2004 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Downhill
The 2004 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Downhill season involved 12 events at sites in North America and Europe between November 2003 and March 2004. Austria's Stephan Eberharter won the individual title.


2004 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Men's Downhill, Final point standings
Overall | Downhill | Super G | Giant Slalom | Slalom | Combined


2004 Alsace regional election
A regional election took place in Alsace on March 21 and March 28, 2004, along with all other regions. Adrien Zeller (UMP) was re-elected President, defeating Jacques Bigot (PS).


2004 Alsace regional election
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2004 Altazor Awards
The fifth annual Altazor Awards took place on April 5, 2004, at the Centro Cultural Matucana 100. The nominees were announced on January 22.


2004 Amber Valley Borough Council election
Elections to Amber Valley Borough Council were held on 10 June 2004. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party held overall control of the council. Overall turnout was 44%.


2004 America East Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2004 America East Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 27-29 at Mahaney Diamond in Orono, Maine. The top four regular season finishers of the league's eight teams qualified for the double-elimination tournament. In the championship game, fourth-seeded Stony Brook defeated second-seeded Maine, 3-1, to win its first tournament championship. As a result, Stony Brook received the America East's automatic bid to the 2004 NCAA Tournament, the program's first in Division I.


2004 America East Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding
The top four finishers from the regular season were seeded one through four based on conference winning percentage only. They then played in a double-elimination format. In the first round, the one and four seeds were matched up in one game, while the two and three seeds were matched up in the other.


2004 America East Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Outstanding Player
Stony Brook outfielder Isidro Fortuna was named Most Outstanding Player.


2004 America East Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2004 America East Men's Basketball Tournament was hosted by the Boston University Terriers at Walter Brown Arena . The final was held at Patrick Gym on the campus of the University of Vermont. Vermont gained its second consecutive berth to the NCAA Tournament with its win over Maine. Vermont was given the 15th seed in the West Regional of the NCAA Tournament and lost in the first round to Connecticut 70–53. Boston University gained a bid to the NIT and lost in the opening round to Rhode Island 80–52.


2004 American Le Mans Series
The 2004 American Le Mans Series season was the 34th season for the IMSA GT Championship, and the sixth under the American Le Mans Series banner. It was a series for Le Mans Prototypes (LMP) and Grand Touring (GT) race cars divided into 4 classes: LMP1, LMP2, GTS, and GT. It began March 20, 2004 and ended October 16, 2004 after 9 races.


2004 American Le Mans Series, Schedule
Three circuits were added to the 2004 schedule, replacing three events which did not return from 2003. The sprint event at Road Atlanta along with Circuit Trois-Rivières and the Miami, Florida street circuit were removed, while Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and Portland International Raceway both returned once again. These were joined by the addition of Lime Rock Park. The removal of Trois-Rivières rendered Mosport as the only race outside the United States.


2004 American Le Mans Series, Teams Championship
Points are awarded to the top 10 finishers in the following order:


2004 American Le Mans Series, Teams Championship
Exceptions were for the 4 Hour Monterey Sports Car Championships was scored in the following order:


2004 American Le Mans Series, Teams Championship
And for the 12 Hours of Sebring and Petit Le Mans which award the top 10 finishers in the following order:


2004 American Le Mans Series, Teams Championship
Cars failing to complete 70% of the winner's distance are not awarded points. Teams only score the points of their highest finishing entry in each race.


2004 American Le Mans at Mid-Ohio
The 2004 American Le Mans at Mid-Ohio was the second race for the 2004 American Le Mans Series season held at Mid-Ohio sports car course. It took place on June 27, 2004.


2004 American Le Mans at Mid-Ohio, Official results
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).


2004 American League Championship Series
The 2004 American League Championship Series was the Major League Baseball playoff series to decide the American League champion for the 2004 season, and the right to play in the 2004 World Series. A rematch of the 2003 American League Championship Series, it was played between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, at Fenway Park and the original Yankee Stadium, from October 12 to 20, 2004. The Red Sox became the first (and to date only) team in MLB history to come back from a 0–3 series deficit to win a seven-game series. The Red Sox, who had won the AL wild card, defeated the Anaheim Angels in the American League Division Series to reach the ALCS, while the Yankees, who had won the AL East with the best record in the AL, defeated the Minnesota Twins.


2004 American League Championship Series
In Game 1, Yankees pitcher Mike Mussina pitched a perfect game through six innings, while the Red Sox recovered from an eight-run deficit to close within one run before the Yankees eventually won. A home run by John Olerud helped the Yankees win Game 2. The Yankees gathered 22 hits in Game 3 on their way to an easy win. The Yankees led Game 4 by one run in the ninth inning, but a steal of second base by Red Sox base runner Dave Roberts and a single by Bill Mueller off Yankees closer Mariano Rivera tied the game.


2004 American League Championship Series
A home run by David Ortiz then won it for the Red Sox in extra innings. Ortiz also won Game 5 with a single in the 14th inning. Curt Schilling pitched seven innings in Game 6 for the Red Sox, during which time his sock became soaked in blood due to an injury in his ankle. Game 7 featured the Red Sox paying back New York for their Game 3 blowout with a dominating performance on the road, anchored by Derek Lowe and bolstered by two Johnny Damon home runs, one a grand slam. David Ortiz was named the Most Valuable Player of the series.


2004 American League Championship Series
The Red Sox remain the only team in MLB history to win a series after being down 3-0. Prior to the 2004 ALCS, no team in MLB had so much as forced a Game 7 under those circumstances - the only team to even do that since 2004 is the Houston Astros who after being down 3-0 went on to lose the 2020 ALCS in seven games to the Tampa Bay Rays. The Red Sox went on to sweep the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series, winning their first World Series championship in 86 years and ending the Curse of the Bambino.


2004 American League Championship Series, Route to the series, Boston Red Sox
The Red Sox ended their 2003 season in the previous American League Championship Series with a game seven loss to the Yankees, on a walk-off home run by Yankees third baseman Aaron Boone in the bottom of the 11th inning. During the offseason, they traded Casey Fossum, Brandon Lyon, Jorge de la Rosa, and a minor leaguer to the Arizona Diamondbacks for ace starting pitcher Curt Schilling. Manager Grady Little was also fired and replaced with Terry Francona due to poor decisions that Little made during the previous season's playoffs. The Red Sox also signed a closing pitcher, Keith Foulke, to a three-year contract.


2004 American League Championship Series, Route to the series, Boston Red Sox
Going into the all-star break, the Red Sox were seven games behind the Yankees for the division lead with a record of 48–38, but led the wild card. In an attempt to improve the team and solidify a playoff decision and in anticipation for a showdown against the New York Yankees, general manager Theo Epstein traded well-liked shortstop Nomar Garciaparra to the Chicago Cubs in exchange for first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz and shortstop Orlando Cabrera in a four-team deal on the trading deadline (July 31).


2004 American League Championship Series, Route to the series, Boston Red Sox
The team fell behind up to 10+1⁄2 games in the division during the month of August, but managed to come back in September to within two games. However, the Yankees held strong and won the division, finishing three games ahead of the Red Sox. The Red Sox won the AL Wild Card (the best record among three second-place teams) to obtain a spot in the playoffs. Entering the postseason, first baseman Kevin Millar was asked to compare the team with the previous season's team, to which he responded, "I'm pretty sure we're five outs better than last year." It was a reference to the 2003 American League Championship Series, in which the Red Sox held a 5–2 lead over the Yankees with one out in the eighth inning of Game 7, only to blow the lead and lose the series.


2004 American League Championship Series, Route to the series, Boston Red Sox
The Red Sox would sweep the Anaheim Angels in three games, but at a cost. In the first game of the series, Schilling would be hurt by a line drive hit off his foot, leaving the rest of his postseason play in doubt.


2004 American League Championship Series, Route to the series, New York Yankees
The 2004 Yankees began the season in Tokyo with a split against the Rays. Playing a much-anticipated game against the Red Sox, the team lost the game 6–2 and 6 out of the first 7 games to their rivals. After falling as many as 4+1⁄2 games behind the Red Sox on April 25, the team would make up the deficit in less than 2 weeks, including an 8-game win streak. By the end of June, they had a commanding 8+1⁄2 game lead in the AL East over the Sox after sweeping them with a dramatic 5–4 walk-off 13-inning victory.


2004 American League Championship Series, Route to the series, New York Yankees
After the All-Star break, the Yankees traded José Contreras to the White Sox for Esteban Loaiza. Contreras was signed away from the Red Sox before the 2003 season, but he failed to live up to expectations. With a 10+1⁄2 game lead in the second week of August, the team struggled and watched their lead dwindle to only 2+1⁄2 games on September 3. The team held off the Red Sox to claim the division and set up a playoff rematch with the Twins. The results were pretty much the same, as the Yankees took the Division Series in 4 games, setting up the rematch.


2004 American League Championship Series, Series build-up
The Red Sox and Yankees had met 45 times in the previous two years, with Boston holding a 23–22 lead. The Red Sox held an 11–8 advantage over New York in 2004, but eight of the games were decided in one of the teams' final at-bats. Boston outscored New York, 106–105. and this was the fifth time that the two teams were on the doorstep of a World Series, with the Yankees winning the previous four, in 1949, 1978, 1999, and 2003.


2004 American League Championship Series, Series build-up
The Series was widely anticipated, especially given the outcome of the previous October, when the Yankees beat the Red Sox in seven games when Aaron Boone hit the home run off of Tim Wakefield in the bottom of the 11th inning to send the Yankees to the World Series. Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman said that "the two teams in the American League facing each other in this series are the two best teams, period."


2004 American League Championship Series, Series build-up
Fox commentator Joe Buck said as the series began: "What's hard to believe, it was almost exactly one year ago tonight that Aaron Boone hit that 11th inning home run to beat the Red Sox, yet for some reason it seemed predetermined that we would be right back here a year later for a rematch of sort."


2004 American League Championship Series, Series build-up
Dan Shaughnessy of The Boston Globe wrote that "one year after they (Yankees) jousted to the (Sox's) finish in the Bronx last October in an epic seventh game that appeared to take the clash to its zenith they go at it again..." In this series, Alex Rodriguez seemed to answer the Sox' acquisition of Curt Schilling, as the two veteran stars faced each other, "wearing the uniforms of the ancient rivals in an October game..." Yankees pitcher Mike Mussina summed up the build-up: "This is what everyone was hoping for... It's a rematch of last year, with the best two teams in the American League."


2004 American League Championship Series, Series build-up
The New York Times said that this was the showdown the Yankees anticipated the entire season, while the Red Sox craved it an entire year. This was the reason why the Red Sox fired Grady Little, traded Nomar Garciaparra, and added Curt Schilling. Outfielder Johnny Damon said of Boone's home run: "If we do advance to the World Series and win, it's a better story that we went through New York. We needed to get back here. This is where a lot of hearts were broken, and we're in a perfect seat to stop the hurting." The Red Sox' Theo Epstein agreed, saying "Now that it's here, we can admit that if we're able to win a World Series and go through New York along the way, it will mean that much more."


2004 American League Championship Series, Series build-up
Initially, Game 4 was scheduled for the afternoon. However, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig had moved the starting time of Game 4 to primetime, due to the rematch, and Fox had a triple-header, first the Seattle Seahawks–New England Patriots game at Gillette Stadium at 1:00 pm ET, then Game 4 of the NLCS between the St. Louis Cardinals and Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park at 4:30 pm ET.


2004 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
Tuesday, October 12, 2004 at Yankee Stadium (I) in Bronx, New York


2004 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
Game 1 pitted the Red Sox's star pitcher Curt Schilling against Yankees ace Mike Mussina. Schilling entered the game with a 6–1 postseason career record, but the expected pitchers' duel quickly became a one-sided exhibition. Schilling had sustained a torn tendon sheath in his right ankle during Game 1 of the American League Division Series against the Angels, and proved to be ineffective. In the first, Gary Sheffield doubled with two outs before Hideki Matsui drove him in with a double, then Matsui scored on Bernie Williams's single.


2004 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
In the third, the Yankees loaded the bases with no outs on two singles and a walk before Matsui cleared them with a double. After moving to third on a groundout, Matsui scored on Jorge Posada's sacrifice fly. In the sixth, Kenny Lofton hit a leadoff home run off of knuckleballer Tim Wakefield. Sheffield doubled with two outs before scoring on a single by Matsui, giving him an ALCS record-tying five RBIs in the game.


2004 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
Mussina, meanwhile, retired the game's first 19 Red Sox batters. Mark Bellhorn ended Mussina's bid for a perfect game with a one-out double in the seventh. After David Ortiz singled with two outs, Kevin Millar's double to left scored two runs. Millar moved to third on a passed ball before scoring on Trot Nixon's single. Tanyon Sturtze relieved Mussina and allowed a home run to Jason Varitek that made it 8–5 Yankees. Next inning, Tom Gordon allowed singles to Bill Mueller and Manny Ramirez before Ortiz's two-out triple cut the Yankees lead to 8–7.


2004 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1
The Yankees called upon closer Mariano Rivera, who induced a pop out by Kevin Millar to end the inning. In the bottom half, Alex Rodriguez and Sheffield singled off of Mike Timlin before Williams' two-run double made it 10–7 Yankees. The Sox hit two singles in the top of the ninth inning off of Rivera, but the game ended when Bill Mueller grounded into a double play.


2004 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at Yankee Stadium (I) in Bronx, New York


2004 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
Game 2 featured Pedro Martínez of the Red Sox facing Yankees pitcher Jon Lieber. Again, the Yankees struck first, as Gary Sheffield drove in Derek Jeter, who walked, in the first inning. The 1–0 score held up for several innings, as Lieber and Martinez put together a classic pitchers' duel.


2004 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
Martinez got himself in and out of trouble through several innings, but, shortly after making his 100th pitch of the night, walked Jorge Posada and allowed a John Olerud home run, giving New York a 3–0 lead.


2004 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2
Again, the Red Sox rallied. Trot Nixon singled to lead off the eighth off of Lieber, who was replaced by Tom Gordon. A double by Jason Varitek moved Nixon to third before Orlando Cabrera's RBI groundout closed the gap, 3–1. With two outs and a runner on third, however, the Yankees again turned to Rivera, who struck out Johnny Damon to end the inning. Rivera shut down the Red Sox in the ninth by inducing a groundout by Mark Bellhorn, and, after giving up a double to Manny Ramírez, striking out David Ortiz and Millar, ending the game.


2004 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
Saturday, October 16, 2004 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts


2004 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3
With the series moving to Fenway Park, Game 3 was originally scheduled for October 15, but was postponed a day due to rain. The starting pitchers were Kevin Brown for the Yankees and Bronson Arroyo for the Red Sox.